I am in Blue. Claude is in Black We commonly use words and phrases in ways that either mean, depend on, or imply learning yet use them in ways that misdirect our awareness away from realizing the role of learning. When the ways we use words obscure our awareness of the role of learning in
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I am in Blue. Bard is in Black (via Bard) Humans use the phrase “outgrow” to describe the cessation of a lot of childish behaviors. List the 20 most common ways the phrase is used to describe the cessation of behaviors. 20 Ways We “Outgrow” Childish Behaviors: Tantrums: “She finally outgrew throwing tantrums when she
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This is an oldy, but still one of my favorites. I often used the clip below during my talks to illustrate the role of feedback in learning. Around that same time, an episode of House did a story on the use of the mirror box so I clipped them together. Watch for at least a
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This warmly, occasionally humorous, “guru” video has some very interestingly entertaining moments. I don’t travel in guru circles so before today I had never encountered Sadhguru. Sadhguru‘s description of the “monkey brain” reminded me of my time with Cary Tagawa. Both his description of the “problem” (what I call tangent migrations) and our “is it possible,
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This was a journal note from 2003: I am increasingly drawn to the analogy (or, possibly, correspondence) between the realm of affects and the realm of physics. Particularly, “Affects are modulations in the density of biophysical locations and that the ‘spaces’ surrounding the effects of affect are warped (shaped) in a way analogous to Einsteinian
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The always great “Marginalian”(The Marginalian) has an article called: “The Art of Divination: D.H. Lawrence on the Power of Pure Attention” (https://bit.ly/3H8LMZJ). It makes a number of great points: “Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer,” Simone Weil “If you live by the cosmos, you look in the cosmos for
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“My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti, Truth is a Pathless Land
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Our political leadership hasn’t yet learned the importance of stewarding our collective intelligence because it’s too busy manipulating the voting behavior of our collective ignorance.
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We emerge from and are always tethered to natural (Gaia, Mother Nature, God, the Great Spirit) learning. But we also learn to be more. We learn to learn artificially. Nature can only learn artificially through us. Become one with god or nature or communing with the great spirits of earth may deeply ground our beings
Its hard for kids who “fall behind” in school NOT to take one of 4 paths: 1 – they have a recognized talent that provides opportunities to ascend that are less dependent on learning in school. 2 – someone in their world recognizes their danger and mentors them into catching back up. 3 – they