I heard the title of this article many moons ago now. In fact, about 50 years ago. That’s a half a century! Sheesh! Time flies when you’re having fun!<\/p>\n
And that’s the trouble. We start out life thinking we have plenty of time. Which we do. But life is chock-a-block full of distractions and we get busy working to buy groceries and pay rent, going out socialising to have fun and to find a mate, then saving for a home, raising a family and before we know it, life is lived and we are looking at grown up grand children wondering, “Where did the time go?”<\/p>\n
Well, it went on living. But was it the life we would have chosen if we knew then what we know now? Would we have done things differently if we could have known what was coming?<\/p>\n
One way to know what will be the result of our actions is to be widely read, especially of people who research causes and effects, what causes generate what effects.<\/p>\n
You may have heard the quote from Will Rogers, “Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”<\/p>\n
IMHO you and I cannot live long enough to learn all we need to by our own observation and experience. School is supposed to be a shortcut so we can acquire the wisdom and good judgement from a lot of other people’s experience without having to go through a lot of pain from our own inexperienced poor judgement.<\/p>\n
All too often, when school stops, so does many people’s intensive learning. Truthfully, many people’s intensive learning stops even prior to leaving school but the failings of the education system are a story for another post.<\/p>\n
Probably the first skill that needs to be acquired in order to learn is the ability to face the subject without flinching away from it. In one subject I have studied extensively that ability is called the ability to confront – to face without flinching.<\/p>\n
Most people do not want to be uncomfortable. I have read that most people would rather live a comfortable lie than live an uncomfortable truth.<\/p>\n
I have also read people say, “Once you see something you cannot unsee it.”<\/p>\n
So if seeing something makes a person uncomfortable then the fear of what one might see and learn has the effect of reducing their willingness to look.<\/p>\n
Obviously the answer is to gradiently increase a person’s ability to comfortably confront what is really there until they arrive at a point where they can confront anything without flinching away from it. This is a high ability indeed!<\/p>\n
If that interests you, contact me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I heard the title of this article many moons ago now. In fact, about 50 years ago. That’s a half a century! Sheesh! Time flies when you’re having fun! And that’s the trouble. We start out life thinking we have plenty of time. Which we do. But life is chock-a-block full of distractions and we … <\/p>\n