The bar has been raised!

The challenge has been thrown down, we need to act

The sudden rise of ChatGPT provides an almost visceral sense that if young people don’t develop the skills that robots and AI can never access then they will literally have their lunch eaten for them.

To develop these skills, young people need to be in environments – continually, if not actually continuously - where they feel they are physically and psychologically safe.  One of those environments should be the home, a second should be the school or tertiary institute and a third should be the workplace.

The one where society has most leverage is the school, which is also the one where the greatest opportunity to lay down the key skills takes place – critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, providing psychological safety to others.

It has never been more important to provide the psychological safety that students need, which in turn will trigger teacher-student relationships of teacherly authority, in turn leading to students willingly doing their best work and self-regulating to avoid disruptions.  The ideal conditions for healthy, socialised growth.

We cannot help every young person climb above the robot/AI threshold without it, and those who stay below this threshold will have much diminished lives.

We can do all of this, we now know enough, we must set our sights on achieving it.

John Corrigan is an expert in helping individuals to bring their whole of mind to their daily life and increase their effectiveness and the effectiveness of those around them. This expertise scales from the individual to the team to the organisation.  At the core of this work is the concept and practice of providing psychological safety and unfeigned love through operating from the Constructive Mutualist rather than the Behaviourist paradigm.  Earlier blogs can be found here.