Watching the video about the teen brain (and the relatively undeveloped executive functioning in teens) made me think about teens’ capacity for risk-taking in creative work as well as more self-destructive forms of risk-taking. In general, it seems like many adults today are more risk-averse than we need to be, and that this can hinder innovation. I’m curious about how we can create educational structures that maintain high levels of artistic, intellectual, and emotional risk-taking beyond adolescence while building executive functioning skills that allow people to stay alive long enough to reap the benefits of these risks.
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