Are You Willing to Change Your Mind?

Have you ever stood at the crossroads of stubbornness and enlightenment, where the choice to shift your mindset seems both daunting and liberating? That's where we find ourselves today on Homeschool Yourself, as I take you through the twists and turns of embracing change and the refreshing act of unlearning. Through intimate reflections on personal growth and the fleeting nature of material possessions, this episode underscores the profound satisfaction that often accompanies choosing action over complacency.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you willing to change your mind?
Welcome to Homeschool Yourself.
This is a podcast that empowersyou to learn and unlearn.
I'm your host, delena, andtogether we're going to
encourage each other to belifelong learners.
I just wanted to take a minuteto encourage you and remind you
that there's nothing wrong withchanging your mind.

(00:22):
The one thing you can count onin life is change.
Nothing stays the same.
It kind of annoys me sometimes,to be honest, because I'll buy
something, cost a little bit ofmoney and then it breaks or it
stops working or it gets rustyor it gets faded, and then I
have to buy another one.

(00:42):
So I'm annoyed that thingsdon't stay the same, that things
are always changing, andsomehow it always catches me by
surprise that things don't lastforever.
And sometimes things do lastforever.
They work for years exactly howthey used to.
You know, the item looks brandnew, but the technology becomes

(01:07):
so outdated that, even thoughthat item didn't change, our
times change.
So, no matter what, the onlything you can count on, it seems
like, in life is change.
My thoughts here are somewhatrelated to what I shared in
episode two about continuing togrow no matter your age, and
there's not a prize for notchanging.

(01:29):
Sometimes we're scared of whatwe'll lose if we change If we
change jobs, if we change ourcircle of friends, if we change
our place or our way of worship,or if we change our mind about
our politics and the things thatare important to us.
Two articles that I read in thelast few days had me thinking
about this.

(01:49):
One of them involved a studythat said that when you're
considering two options let'ssay maybe between staying with
the status quo and making a movethat seems risky people are
most of the time happier whenthey choose change.
Always choose action, it said.
Always choose the change.
I'll link to the article in theshow notes if you want to read

(02:09):
it.
The other article I was readingabout was about somebody who
changed their mind.
It was a woman who ran forschool board in a town in Texas
actually close to where I livein Granbury Texas and she ran on
the so-called anti-woke agenda.
She wanted to protect schoolchildren from the left's

(02:31):
indoctrination and after she wonthe election, she decided to
review the curriculum that she'dbeen talking about, and this
Texas Tribune article says butafter taking office and
examining hundreds of pages ofcurriculum, gore was shocked by
what she found and didn't find.
The pervasive indoctrinationshe had railed against simply

(02:55):
did not exist.
Uh, you think the article keepsgoing?
Children were not beingsexualized and she could find no
examples of critical racetheory.
You think, boy?
The article went on to say thatshe'd examined curriculum
related to social emotionallearning and, instead of it,

(03:18):
encouraging children to questiongender roles and prioritize
feelings over biblical teachings.
This is a public school, folks.
Anyway, it says that Gore foundthe materials taught children
how to be a good friend and agood human.
Well, what do you know?
What do you know?
I wonder what more people wouldthink if they actually did

(03:39):
their own research and if theyactually did their own reading,
outside from all of the noiseand sensationalism found on
social media.
I'll link to the rest of thearticle because I think it's
worth a read.
It's also indicative of thepolitics of Texas.
It's good.

(04:00):
I'll link to it in the shownotes.
I have to admit it was nice toread about someone who was
willing to say I was wrong.
Even though she went on toreceive threats and she was
ostracized from the conservativeparty who's trying to dismantle
public education in Texas,she's still standing firm on
what she discovered.
It was risky for her to changeher mind, but I am so glad she

(04:24):
did.
It was risky for her to changeher mind, but I am so glad she
did.
It made me want to ask you andreally ask myself what are you
willing to learn more about andrisk changing your mind about?
Are you willing to change yourmind about something and are you
willing to say it out loud?
I would love to hear from you.
You can send me a text rightfrom your podcast app or leave a
comment on Facebook orInstagram.

(04:45):
Until next time, remember youhave the right to grow and
change your mind.
Go, unlearn something today.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
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(05:15):
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