What can the Nobel Prize winning physicist’s story teach you? OR What did Frank Kern learn the hard way?
First, before I get into the story itself, let’s ponder the meaning of teaching so we are on the same page, shall we?
As someone who attempts to teach, let me tell you what it’s like for me: I find a thousand different ways to say, demonstrate, frame what I want to teach. I invent thousand and one stories, I find books that hint on what I want to teach, I sing it, I make it a comedy, make it a tragedy, I make you read, I make practice activating your eye muscles and the related brain areas…
And if I do it long enough with enough enthusiasm, I may get a few people to learn what I teach… but most of the time it
What we call intuition isn’t… but WHAT do we call intuition?
The state of the current humanity is chaos. Everyone has an opinion, just like everyone has an a-hole.
So far so good, Sophie… you groan. But from this, honoring one’s opinion as important, comes the mischief: everyone insists that their version of reality… aka their opinion, is the real reality. ((Your “intuitive” actions will be a conclusion of some mental process, that is most likely based on some certainty that is wrong, sometimes dead wrong, rendering you, your projects, the planet dead.))
Same way about what words mean… words like intuition.
There are courses on awakening your intuition that completely ignore the fact that y
I have decided to re-read the Feelings book, and this time make it a study, memorize the names of the different needs, take a more earnest approach to learning the “language” of the machine that is need-based.
I am feeling a mix of fear and excitement. where? in my stomach, expanding to my chest.
My plan is to read/study the book is to study it at the beginning of my evening reading session for about 10 minutes, and then switch to my “other” book… whatever book I am reading in the evening at the time… currently it is “Curious” by Ian Leslie.
I am reading Curious for the second time, and this time it is, given the chance, going to change something in me and consequently i
Humility is the opposite of my soul correction: Forget Thyself.
Every single human, whether they admit it or not, feel above average, and smarter than most everyone… and Forget Thyself is the worst.
It is a daily practice of mine to make myself a learning machine… learn from everyone, including my students.
Humility… it’s actually very hard… you need to give credit where credit is due, and every time, it’s human nature, you experience the marker feelings that come along with comparison: someone is better than me… therefore I must be no good.
You cannot even repeat the sentence…
You cannot do what it explained to do…
It doesn’t do what you were told it would do…
It happens all the time… and it leaves you puzzled, dumbfounded…
If that is you, you MAY belong here. MAY…
If it leaves you saying that the person who spoke was a butthole, or something like that… that they lied, that they are this and that, you don’t belong here.
Puzzled, dumbfounded, confounded are a sign that you got present to the gap in YOUR knowledge, and MAY consider upgrading YOUR knowledge to catch up… the seed of epistemic curiosity.
My answer is quite counter-cultural. I say: you have that boulder there because you need to get familiar, maybe even intimate with it so it will let you continue on your path.
What can the Nobel Prize winning physicist’s story teach you? OR What did Frank Kern learn the hard way?
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