Why are Mondays so difficult?

Many days, the intentionality at Acton Academy is intense.  Eagles are focused and concentrating so hard that you can feel the brain waves pulsating through the room.  Even the extreme  silence seems energized.

On these days, it’s easy to feel smug about how well the incentives, contracts and other cultural levers are working.  The studio and its owners are a well oiled machine.

Then comes the breakdown.  Eagles interrupting “flow” for trivial reasons.  One Eagle shouting across the room at another about an Instagram picture from the night before.  Horseplay erupts.

Of course, it wasn’t a well oiled machine after all, but a living, breathing organism.  Learning is progressing, just not in the way a teacher would decree that it should.

Learning is messy.