This morning over coffee, I put some notes donw regarding misconceptions and valuing them. For me this would be a form of, or practice within the domain of radical humility. It is something you can do, and do for yourself and for others. It is a methodology we can practice.
In the other, you can celebrate a misconception as an opportunity to learn - for both you and the learner. Very little, if ever is learnt, from hammering home certainties. After all you already knew it right? And the recipient of your truth is unlikely to welcome your pointing out their ignorance, and less likely to remember, be motivated and come back for more.
Responsive Learning has the valuing of misconceptions nailed down. It is the extreme programming of teaching in this spirit. I blieve their are subler approaches that have value.
In the Viral Academy we began a practice (poking fun at software practices) of writing down and sharing Dumb Arsed Questions. In particular we encouraged them each and every morning scrum. If something troubled you, or there was something you didn't understand you would express it at the end of your checkin as a form of "blocker": > I don't get how / what / why the terminal is useful? It's a real turn off.
That was a signal for the Guide or another student to offer to sit with them and explore.
This practice was super rewarding, and fun. We made it funny. But it also had potential for trouble, and it was in no way easy to introduce without intense choreography.
On the personal side, we can also practice the valuing of our mistakes - in many samll ways. One of my favourites in the creative space is to dig into bad jokes. A Bad Joke in this context is not simply something that is not funny, but something that springs to mind - even when you know it's not funny. It has for inexplicable reasons (to you) a magnetism. Now that is definitely something worth exploring - and not simply to get better at telling jokes.