Post Written By Eugene Morgan
‘Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.’— Charles H. Spurgeon
Experiential learning
Grab A Hold
Post Written By Eugene Morgan
Milton Erickson once said that experiencing confusion is one step away of making a decision. Confusion is trying to decide what we’re going to do next. Confusion is a brief moment of trying to find an idea that we can grab a hold of rather than having nothing to grab at all. Since we want to make sense out of our world, then it is worth grabbing onto something than to experience the confusion as though we’re free falling. Once we grab hold of an idea, it begins to grow inside us. The new idea breaks up our old ideas about things.
Smile Because It Happened
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“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” ― Dr. Seuss
It is great that we can do things that please us especially when we want them to last. When we look back we can smile at them because it happened. We know it is a good story when we don’t want it to end. It is hard to end a good story but we can always watch or read it again. We don’t want things to end because we don’t want the experience to end. We can always reminisce with others who shared in the same experience.
All The Wonders
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“All the wonders you seek are within yourself.”— Sir Thomas Browne
It is how we perceive and discover new things through our experiences that make us excited about life. It is through our senses that we get the information from external events, but it is through our criteria or our filters that we perceive things in our own unique way. Our self-discovery is learning how to expand our view so we can see what we have been missing over the years. Those experiences are collected by our unconscious mind. Our unconscious mind releases these learnings through our dreams as a reminder to ourselves that we have the resources from within to do great things.
No Failures…Just Experiences
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“There are no failures. Just experiences and your reactions to them.”—Tom Krause
Failures are just our expectations not being met. When our standards are too high, it is inevitable we will fail to meet them. It is like a self-fulfilling prophecy. But, if we could lower our standards, then it would be possible to allow ourselves the room to make mistakes, to learn and make improvements from them. We don’t have to be so hard on ourselves that we don’t allow ourselves the luxury of failing while learning something new. We are not robots where every movement we make is with precision and every thought calculated. We are human beings that make our way through our experiences.
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Accomplishments
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Our accomplishments are built on the foundation of hard work so we shouldn’t underestimate them. We need them to remind us that we can continue to accomplish new things. We move each step forward when we accomplish something new. We build on each accomplishment. From each accomplishment, we learn something new. We use that new learning, experience and knowledge to help us to build on something that’s more challenging. There is no short cut for accomplishing something. Our accomplishments are like milestones, it guide us to the next challenge. For us to meet a challenge, we must have been challenged before and won.
When We Second Guest Our Abilities
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We don’t have to second guess our abilities. For example, we know how to walk so we don’t have to wonder if we’re going to start walking once we place our feet on the ground.
Walking is so automatic that we don’t have to think about it. When we doubt our abilities, we become conscious about it. It begins to feel unnatural like walking consciously.
With any skills that were learned and transferred unconsciously to the storehouse of our mind, should stay in our unconscious mind. However, things that aren’t useful that we have learned can be brought to forefront our minds and changed and the corrected change become unconscious again.
Experience is Far Better than Reward
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A reward is just a reinforcer for doing a service of some kind. What we learn from our journey is what’s important. Every one of us has journeys. A journey is something we experience for a certain time.The greatest journey is about experiencing life and how we want to experience it through various means. Those means are things that we dream about and care about that we want to do to make our lives better. To make our lives better requires persistence and great labor and the stick-to-it-ness to see even slightest change. As long as we continue to move toward the direction of our goals, we will be rewarded by our efforts. And that the experience itself is the better reward because we gain more during that time of acquiring new learnings to strengthen us for the long run.
Don’t Underestimate Your Potential
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Sometimes we are so quick to criticize our work. We don’t give ourselves a chance or room to grow into our potentials. We place such high standards on ourselves that we get easily frustrated with ourselves when we don’t meet them.
When we get frustrated we lose focus on what is important. What is important is learning to experience our latent potentials. Potentials are only clues and glimpses of what we can become.
Discovering our potentials can be a surprising experience. Our potentials are made from our experiences thus help us along the way through life. And what we learned from our experiences is stored up for future uses in the guise of our potentials.
Creating An Inner Experience
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It is within us that we create our inner experiences. It is within us that we create change. For us to deal with reality, we must close our eyes for moment and think about our dreams and our imaginations and our learned experiences.
We are free to dream up anything we want and to do anything we want in our dreams. Our imaginations are our limit to what we can dream.
In through our dreams and our imaginations we experience many things. We have a storehouse of dreams, experiences and imaginations that are volumes of resources for us to tap into that create within us strength and courage to what we so want in our lives.
When Life Teaches Us Something
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It makes one wonder why we’re here living this life. Maybe we’re here to learn something about life. One thing is true we’re always learning something new.
We learn to gain knowledge. We learn to experience something. We learn to better ourselves. We learn to pass on to the next generation our knowledge and experiences. Wisdom comes from years of experiencing life through our learning.
Knowledge isn’t enough for us but it can be useful and helpful. Experience is a deeper way of knowing about the world and about self. Wisdom is learning something through our personal experiences.
The Year 2012
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The year 2012 is approaching us. We wonder how things going to be in 2012. We all hope for the best because nothing happens perfectly.
There will be some challenges ahead that are inevitable. There will be some changes we will have to make to make adjustments to a situation. We’re going to be shocked and surprised.
We will get outrage about an event. We will get sad when bad things happen. We will get happy when good things happen. We will experience new learnings.
We’re going to make an adjustment in writing 2012 instead of writing 2011. Next year is a new year. We can look forward to new things in our lives to happen. We can only hope for the best and do a lot of learning.
When Reality is still Subjective
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We all model reality through our background experiences. We have different experiences; therefore, we have different realities.
No matter how real our experiences are, they’re still subjective. When we tell a story about an experience to another person, for them to understand us, the listener would have to sort through their own background to understand us.
Not only are they sorting through their own experiences to understand us, but they’re also experiencing the story through their background. That’s why we love to listen to stories, because we enjoy experiencing the storyteller’s adventures.
An Idea that grows into more Ideas
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When we have an idea we ought not be afraid to use it. Not every idea that pops up in our minds will be useful. But it’s nice to see if it can be useful in some way.
Ideas are like finding a new pair of shoes that fit; we have to try many before we find the one that’s fits comfortably. By applying one idea to a situation, we may learn something else that sparks another idea that may work better.
Ideas are like seeds; we just have to find the right condition and the right climate for them to grow. A new idea helps us to expand our thinking so we can see things differently than before. Expanding our thinking helps us to look at possibilities that we haven’t seen yet.
A Re-Experience
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In our lives each one of us have experienced something we learned that affected our lives. It altered the way we think, it changed us for the rest of our lives. We sometimes return to that moment in our memory banks to re-experience it. We want to re-experience it because it was an important moment. It probably made us change our career, or move to another state to pursue as a dream opportunity to learn more about the subject. When we are struggling through difficulties, we can look inside ourselves and re-experience that moment in time. That memory is like fuel that will help us get through the difficult times ahead.