“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already, but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already without a shadow of doubt what is laid before him”.
Leo Tolstoy 1897
Whenever I work with a client, I know we will make progress when there is a clear, open willingness to learn. To be in this space, however, a person must let go of trying to look good, appear slick and cool or trying to demonstrate how smart they are. To be a good student and to be able to learn all that is available for transformation to occur, a person must constantly practice humility while acknowledging they don’t know all that they thought they did. In fact, the emptier the mind is, the more room there is for learning.
A killer mind-set for learning is the “I think I know” level, which is the lowest level of the Knowing Ladder. As long as a person holds on to thinking they already have the answer, the less open they are to learning and they less they will know..
Once a person releases their grip on that lowest rung of the ladder, they begin to realize that maybe they don’t know. They begin to be open to new possibilities and the road to learning and discovery begins to open.
Soon, one realizes that, in fact, not only do they not know everything, but they actually know very little compared to all there is to know on any given subject, never mind about life on the planet. This is indeed a humbling moment, and can be a little scary, because many of us think our very survival is connected to what we know.
Once we realize that our survival is NOT connected to what we know we are ready to discover what we don’t know and the road to learning gets a lot easier and more exciting. Soon, the mind opens up, and we see things we never knew were there; we hear things we never heard before and awaken to a new world of possibilities, a world that was always out there, but we never knew was there. When we connect to this level of natural knowing, paradigms shift and lives literally change.
It all starts with letting go of that lower rung.
Thank you to Pam Larsen for sharing the Tolstoy quote with us.
Well if Einstine is correct the human is only using about 10% of his potential So i asume humans will be in the box for some time Till we figure out we most likely understand about 10% of the laws of physics So run with tat for awhile