Another Day

[kokopelle]

Three steps forward, one step back. Some books describe improvement as a spiral pointing in a generally up direction. There are days of backtracking, but the progression is generally forward. This is all good and well, but process feels masochistic on my part and sadistic on the part of the participating world.

There are some that say our higher selves 'plan' our lives for us. We (they) do so with a dispassionate eye towards the extremes of experience. In fact, there are some that believe we (they) choose really tough situations to "experience' life. Sigh. Now I don't know if I can believe this if only because my higher self must be quite mad. I'm probably projecting. I find the continuing flavors of personal madness to be like a distilled liquid. While I get "better", the core of the madness becomes more refined and it scares me even more.

On the business geek side of life, I am now reading "Accounting: The Basis for Business Decisions". Oh the excitement. (smile).

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't really know anything because I'm so distant from your experience, but I don't think things will really fall into place for you until you TEACH the stuff you're here to teach. I think that's crazy making for you because your thought of teaching circles around the things you know, whereas the stuff you're here to teach won't fit in that box.

I think you need the right set of students to have an appropriate mirror for your world and experience to make sense.

Someone told me long ago that whenever we're confused we're teachable.

When God or the Universe or whatever wants to get us lined out to teach, first we have to be utterly and completely confused so we let go of the preconceptions that keep the human race trapped and limited . . . but not ALL of them. We need to keep enough culturally compatible error to be compatible with the students we are sent to serve.

I never like it myself, but I think I get a lot more feedback in terms of my value as a teacher when I'm frigging clueless.

[chimerae.livejournal.com]

. . . You're part of a noble profession. The word ''count'' is part of your title. . .
The Producers
http://www.movietranscriptions.com/248393_The_Producers.html

[greensh.livejournal.com]

LOL... right now I am in a profession of my own making. I am an Electrical Engineering degree from Auburn University. For the first five or so years I was a facility/project engineer. I've been a project engineer at my current work until last year. I facilitated a move to being the site's software quality assurance specialist. Now I am working on being a resource to projects involving automation and computer systems. I'm not sure what that job title will be. (smile).

I am studying the accounting for my home business of selling books on the internet. I did that for about four years previous, but my understanding of basic accounting was lacking. This time around I am improving what I know.

[(Anonymous)]

This is one of my key teachers. Bryan consistently help me over the blocks I can't cross on my own -- even though he doesn't understand until long after it's over. I think of him as Sensei whenever I have need of his help. Very often it's his engineering knowledges that helps me through my metaphysical boggle.

http://gazorgan.blogspot.com/

My experience of him is that he needs right (and often impossible) students to provide open ended questions to organize what he already knows in a way that leads him to his own next step.

It sometimes seems to me that really smart and knowledgeable people need whatever the antonym of a mnemonic device in order to take them OUT of what they already know into a new level of awareness that reorders the body of knowledge in a more open-ended way. For real teachers, adequately challenging students are one form of that.

[(Anonymous)]

- chimera (in case you didn't already recognize the flow)

[greensh.livejournal.com]

I recognized the flow and was delighted...

[greensh.livejournal.com]

Agreed! (about demanding students). I really my period of community instructing because it PUSHED me to learn more so I could share more, and the students brought to it angles that I could not easily see.