While these are leaps towards a healthier workplace, this increasing nonchallance might ironically have a negative impact on business owning families who are often struggling to professionalize their involvement in the business, to lessen the confusion and overlap of business and family roles. I cannot overstate the insight, proactivity, and gutsiness required of family members in business to reflect upon and evaluate the various ways in which they need to straighten up and fly right. Re-evaluating even deeply rooted beliefs, or just doing some fact checking on yourself, is threatening, but required. The point I am making here is that there is a shaky foundation for updated and upgraded thinking if you have not prepared the ground by questioning and deleting faulty ideas and concepts. Educators looking at how people learn confirm this notion.
Children develop theories at a much earlier age than previously thought.
Teachers cannot effectively impart information to students without exploring how and what they are thinking. In one example, a seemingly bright boy about ten years old attempted to explain why cats see better than humans in a dark room. He was confounded, until the teacher realized the boy had a misconception- that vision is a function of light emanating from within the eye. If the child's faulty thinking was not discovered, new information would have no place to fit in his mind. I urge family business members to develop the skill and bravery of unlearning past patterns.