In the movie “Conclave” the gathering to elect the next Pope opens with a speech that contains these lines: “There is one sin which I have come to fear above all others, certainty” “Certainty is the great enemy of unity.” “Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance.” “If there was only certainty and no doubt, […]
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The founders of the U.S. created a framework that liberated, enabled, and ignited a more learning-oriented way of being united. Not perfect, but more perfect. More perfectly conducive to a new kind of collaborative learning that ultimately lead the U.S. to become the most intelligent nation on the planet. Today, predatorily and parasitically
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We all begin as helpless infants. None of us are born walking and talking. None of us are born with scientific knowledge or vocational, athletic, or artistic skills. None of us are born believing in a religious, political, racial or any other form of ideology. We all start out learning to become who we can’t
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Predestination, Free Will, Agency, and Learning (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues P1 – Estimate the percentage of humanity who experience their lives as pre-destined? Who experience themselves as “the way they were made”. Stay exact to my meanings. https://g.co/gemini/share/83877c930e0e P2 – Inverting the last question. what other life-experience-meta-orientations other than “the way they
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This dailogue explores how the affect shame, the neurobiological precursor to the emotion of shame, seems to work. Background: I am grateful to have been mentored into learning about shame by my dear friend, the epistemological philosopher and affect therapist, Gary David PhD. Gary is a proponent and practitioner of the work of the late
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The following occurred during a conversation about the potentially profound life-benefitting effects of learning to experience yourself as “always learning to become who you are becoming”. Just after describing the benefits to young children who learned to learn that way. I Am Always in All Ways Learning to Become Me And, after a rough outline
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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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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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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