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Don’t Try to Teach a Goat to Dance — It’ll Just Eat Your Shoes
A short but important guide to finding your Inner Goat
Down through history, goats have been given a bad rap. Maybe it started with that old Bible directive — “Sheep on the left, and goats on the right”.
Ever since then, goats have been cast in the role of the antagonist. The troublemakers and the misbegotten.
While shepherds were tending their flocks by night, the goats were somewhere out there in the darkness; presumably doing all those sordid things that goats do.
“Don’t try to teach a goat to dance — it’ll just eat your shoes.”
The sad fact is, we have all been that particular goat at some time in our lives. And someone has tried to teach us to dance.
We live in a world chock-full of dance teachers — some well-meaning, others cunningly manipulative. These dance teachers can be parents, teachers, peer groups, or partners.
Sometimes it is a self-imposed dance lesson. I mean, you don’t want to be the one left sitting alone on the sidelines, watching everyone else own the dance floor, right?
Whether it is enforced by others or self-imposed, we paradoxically become sheep when we fail to honour our Inner Goat. And not in that…
