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beings. The degree to which someone is driven to mastery is subject to other beliefs.
If you play golf, you go to a golf course. If you play tennis, you go to a tennis course. But if you skateboard, you have an option. You can go to a skate park and have a great time there. But you can also use your board in a way that’s quasi-illegal. It’s not technically legal for me to skate on the sidewalk. In cer- tain places in the city, it’s not legal for me to skate on the street. But I’ve done it and gotten busted for skateboarding.
I’ve had a taste of authority. I’ve been put in the back of a police car. I’ve had run-ins with security. I’ve got that footage when I did Concrete Wave TV. They shut me down and the whole crew down at Yorkdale Mall. I feel I might have had a bit of inoculation against authority.
I grew up in an environment that was punk rock-driven. At 13, I was listening to music that was all about anarchy and questioning the status quo. Most people who were teenagers 10 years before me, who were in the countercul- ture weren’t punk rockers, they were hippies.
Perhaps I’m the counter-counterculture?! I question both sides — the hippies and the punks. Maybe the hippies had the right attitude and the wrong attitude. The Wall Street yuppies also had the right attitude and the wrong attitude. It’s this idea of holding two dissenting views and figuring out the best of each to go forward. I think it’s this idea that this is where things are, and this is where they need to be. In my mind, I’m constantly thinking of ways to figure out a path.
Questioning the Doctrine (Beliefs) that we have acquired is an essential element of learning. It is usually the experiment with action that opens our minds to the principles that underpin our accepted doctrines. That causes us to question or change our doctrines and subsequent actions. See Doctrine Principle Action learning model.
My joy in life is coming up with unique, low-cost ways to nudge people, to move things forward, to give a different perspective. I did that in skateboarding.
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