The Value of Walking to School

Jennifer Keesmaat gave an excellent Tedx talk on the value of walking to school:

I thought the whole talk was interesting but I particularly liked the last section where she discussed the “Fact Based” and “Fear Based” reasons for her daughter not wanting to walk to school. So often we are prevented from doing things that would actually be good for us by paralyzing fear. Sometimes the fear is irrational and sometimes it is rational. Either way, I thought the way Jennifer handled it was good - just acknowledge that the fear is there but decide it won’t control what you do. The truth is that danger exists in different forms everywhere. By deciding to walk to school, her daughter exchanged one type of danger for another.

via Dan Pearce