“You always move better with a smile.”

I avoid using the word ‘inhibition’ in my teaching because of the utter confusion and disparity of meaning attributed to that word. 

As I recently discovered, this is not limited to our community – scientists also grapple with its meaning. David Anderson, a respected scholar of motor control and learning in San Francisco - and an Alexscovery teacher - commented recently:

Thomas Hobbes (1558-1679) or Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) – who’s right?

In his delightful & uplifting book “HumanKind – A Hopeful History” (thanks Elisabeth!), Rutger Bregman poses this question at the outstart. Hobbes is on the side of “we are inherently evil, and civilization encourages good.” Rousseau is on the side of “we are inherently good, and civilization encourages evil.”