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deepgreen18) wrote2008-07-19 10:06 pm
deepgreen18) wrote2008-07-19 10:06 pm
Big ideas
I have a lot to say, but I've been writing some long e-mails, it may or may not all come out before I get tired again.
The main thing is: today was long and thought-filled. This was perhaps our longest day of class, and our most interesting. The material that we've been going over all week has been building on itself, and so today had many old concepts grounding the new.
My biggest idea: I need to work on my own technique, and really learn the lessons being taught before I teach them.
My other big idea (I've had it before, and will find it again, no doubt): We/I/you/anyone can do anything. But, there are steps in this. First, you have to know the possibility exists. Then, you have to know you can do it. Third, you have to know how to do it. Finally, or second, you have to want to do it.
Sometimes the how part is figured out by others and you learn that painlessly, sometimes you have to figure it out on your own with blood, sweat, and tears.
This applies to everything that is not automatic, like breathing. Teaching, knitting, cooking, cleaning, listening, conversing, crossing the street, all of these things has these components. If you don't know you can move, do you walk? If you know the possibility, and you want to, but don't think you can, will you do it? Last, if you know yourself to be able, think you can, want to, but don't know how, how can you?
I've been learning this lesson for years. Years. I didn't know how to practice well, so I didn't, and I thought I couldn't. Now, I'm learning how, and I'm hampered by the "I can't" that my brain has been thinking for years. So, message for the Green one: It's possible, this is how, you can.
I'm tired. I'll go listen to my teacher's voice in my head, now (it happens when I listen to a person for hours on end, books on tape do it, too).
Greeny
The main thing is: today was long and thought-filled. This was perhaps our longest day of class, and our most interesting. The material that we've been going over all week has been building on itself, and so today had many old concepts grounding the new.
My biggest idea: I need to work on my own technique, and really learn the lessons being taught before I teach them.
My other big idea (I've had it before, and will find it again, no doubt): We/I/you/anyone can do anything. But, there are steps in this. First, you have to know the possibility exists. Then, you have to know you can do it. Third, you have to know how to do it. Finally, or second, you have to want to do it.
Sometimes the how part is figured out by others and you learn that painlessly, sometimes you have to figure it out on your own with blood, sweat, and tears.
This applies to everything that is not automatic, like breathing. Teaching, knitting, cooking, cleaning, listening, conversing, crossing the street, all of these things has these components. If you don't know you can move, do you walk? If you know the possibility, and you want to, but don't think you can, will you do it? Last, if you know yourself to be able, think you can, want to, but don't know how, how can you?
I've been learning this lesson for years. Years. I didn't know how to practice well, so I didn't, and I thought I couldn't. Now, I'm learning how, and I'm hampered by the "I can't" that my brain has been thinking for years. So, message for the Green one: It's possible, this is how, you can.
I'm tired. I'll go listen to my teacher's voice in my head, now (it happens when I listen to a person for hours on end, books on tape do it, too).
Greeny