{
  "id": "return-to-beginners-mind",
  "number": "119",
  "edition": "Change",
  "title": "Return to beginner's mind",
  "standfirst": "Expertise can conceal possibilities that inexperience would still attempt.",
  "when": "You know the conventions so well that every answer arrives pre-approved.",
  "way": "Beginner's mind treats established practice as a collection of assumptions rather than physical law. Experience can help you execute an answer while preventing you from noticing a different one. For one round, make the work without access to the move you already know will work.",
  "tryThis": "List the rules your field treats as obvious. Choose one. Make a buildable version of the project that assumes the rule never existed.",
  "notice": "Which naive move contains more life than the expert solution?",
  "person": "Steve Jobs",
  "source": "The Contemporary Blueprint archive",
  "quote": "When you grow up, you are often told that the world is fixed and that your job is simply to live within it, avoid hitting the walls too hard, build a decent life, and get by. But that is a limited view of life. Life becomes much broader once you realise that everything around you was made by people no smarter than you, which means it can be changed, influenced, and reshaped. You can build things, improve systems, and create something others will use. The important shift is to stop seeing life as something static that you merely inhabit and start seeing it as something you can engage with, mold, and leave your mark on. Once you understand that, you begin to want to change life and make it better, and after that realization, you are never quite the same again.",
  "sourceUrl": "https://youtu.be/kYfNvmF0Bqw",
  "contexts": [
    "change",
    "idea",
    "perspective"
  ],
  "free": true,
  "related": [
    "make-a-temporary-play-space",
    "exaggerate-one-quality",
    "change-the-sequence"
  ],
  "sourceArchive": "The Contemporary Blueprint",
  "referenceKind": "quotation",
  "referenceExcerpt": "When you grow up, you are often told that the world is fixed and that your job is simply to live within it, avoid hitting the walls too hard, build a decent life, and get by. But that is a limited view of life. Life becomes much broader once you realise that everything around you was made by people no smarter than you, which means it can be changed, influenced, and reshaped."
}