The Wild Robot:

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The Wild Robot.

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A story about a missing robot.

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Someone lost.

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Who has no purpose.

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And is looking to find one.

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By chance, she’s blessed with an opportunity.

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A privilege.

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To become a parent.

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Only she has no idea what she’s doing.

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Like all parents feel.

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We’re all making it up.

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Even those who we look up to like our parents.

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Thinking they have it all figured it out.

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When they have no idea what they’re doing.

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But this was more than just a movie about parenting.

It was about resilience.

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About failure.

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About leading with kindness.

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About showing up for people.

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About community.

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It was more than just a movie about a robot.

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One of the ideas that stuck with me was about programming.

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Roz was programmed a certain way.

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Believed the world to be a certain way.

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Was given a blueprint by her masters on how the world works.

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We are the same.

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Our subconscious, environment and role models as kids programmed us.

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But just because you have one set of programming doesn’t mean you can’t learn another.

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Doesn’t mean you can’t work on yourself.

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Doesn’t mean you can’t change your program.

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Took Roz forever to learn that.

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To learn that you can rewrite your program.

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Also, you can have all the knowledge in the world.

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But nothing will prepare you for taking care of a kid.

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They’ll grow up to follow you.

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Copy you.

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Be like you.

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Sometimes to their detriment.

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But other times to their success.

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Invest in your children.

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Invest in the next generation.

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Get teachers to show them how it’s done.

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Then watch them fail.

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Watch them struggle.

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Support them even when they don’t believe they can do it.

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We all need cheerleaders.

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Even when Bright Bill said he could never fly, Roz and Fink didn’t let him believe it.

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They stuck with him.

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Showed them the way.

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Then they had to let him go.

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Like all parents do.

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You have your kids till 18.

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After that, you have to let them soar.

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Even if that means falling on their face a few times.

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You need them to be independent because they can’t be children forever.

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The process is the point.

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Because you never know when your work will come in handy.

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The beaver was working on cutting down that tree for his whole life.

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Being made fun of by everyone.

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When meanwhile he unlocked the secret to creativity.

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Love the work, not the result.

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Because one day, all your hard work will be praised.

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You’ll be made to look like a genius while you spent years being made fun of as a fool.

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Find your community, especially when times are hard.

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Always be yourself no matter how much of a runt you are.

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All you need is a few people to believe in you and you can accomplish anything you want.

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Learned all this from a robot.

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Go watch the Wild Robot.

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