Fear Is Irrational....
>>It's really easy to have no fear when nothing really horrible is happening to you. Fear is a natural response to extreme life threatening situations- and it has a survival function. The adrenaline pumped into your system can help you act faster, and stronger, than you normally would. If you don't have a little fear you might just get a little dead.>>
I know I am 180 degrees from the vast majority of folks on this subject, but "fear" results when we feel cut off from our central core energy. When we "fear" losing our job we're really saying "I don't believe I have the courage, understanding or guts to get another job."
And when a Grizzly bear does come upon us I'm sure we react much more rationally from a position which does not "fear", but simply reacts, adjusts with what needs to be done to get out of the Grizzly's way.
If you are running for a touchdown and "fear" the tackler coming up on your left you've cut yourself off from your inner energy and you will be tackled, period.
>>That's not to say that there aren't people who are overly fearful- those people with phobias, for example, and people who have too little fear (danger seekers)- but those are just the aberrant extremes for what is, in the vast center, an adaptive behavior.>>
Yes, it's "adaptive" all right, but I really believe "fear" is irrational. It what we have manufactured in our heads and believe implicitly primarily because others believe/react the same way.
>>This is probably pointless since you are just as irrational as any mainstream religious zealot I've ever bumped into here- but I put it out there because it needs to be said. Hopefully it will act as a counterweight to your extremely irrational flow. Although, at least you don't seem to hate anyone. That's a good thing. I guess if there have to be zealots (and if I didn't have to listen to them, or read them, or ever see them) you would be the best kind to have.>>
I take this as a compliment X. Yea, I am speaking from an "irrational" perspective for most people, but this only confirms that progress is being made. What we take for or consider to be "rational" I take for and consider to be "irrational."
But here's the difference. When the vast majority of people use the term "irrational" to define others they do so from a negative, judgmental perspective - ie. "what a nut, what a jerk, he's crazy, etc." All you have to do is go one step further and look at the fruits of that person's actions and ministery in his/her life. For I believe we all have the power to minister, help and serve one another from a humble, positive, loving perspective. When you take this position you are not placing oneself higher or above others. For if I did this I would be judging, defining and reacting in a way to restrict or control others.
I may seem irrational, but I don't hate anyone. Nor do I think I know anything that others don't already know to begin with. The difference which makes me appear irrational to most is the way I reach out, stir the pot, risk and empower others to do the same from a helping, serving, caring, positive perspective.
An example of this "reaching out" is in the way I, you and others are sharing/creating/evolving this dialogue with each other. I learn from this process. I learn from you, X, and others. How? By risking, sharing, "letting go" and interacting.
Here's a little piece I shared with Paul Siegel's LearningFountain e-zine recently. The subject, Learning, gets right to the heart of what we are doing here.
Peace.
GO!!
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 12:53:38 -0800
From: Paul -the soarING- Siegel <paul@learningfountain.com>
Subject: LearningFOUNT (223)
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Mike got us all excited about learning. We have lots of good ideas in today's issue. With a wild thing like the Internet, what's more important than learning? Why not forward this issue
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"When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target.To improve your aim -- improve yourself."
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==CONVERSTATIONS WITH EXPERTS===
Post #1 - Re: Learning
-------------Fred Smart
Post #2 - Re: Learning
-------------Laurinda
Post #3 - Re: Learning
-------------Jim McCormick
Post #4 - Re: Learning
-------------Mike McMeniman
==CURRENT DISCUSSION===
Post #5 - Re: Programming Assistance
-------------Terri Robinson
Post #6 - Re: Programming Assistance
-------------Ken Weatherford
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==CONVERSATIONS WITH EXPERTS===
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From: fksmart@aol.com
Subject: Re: Learning
Mike said:
<< Context is good, Situational Analysis does apply. But isn't the purpose of all our self-development and training efforts
to change our behavior to gain new, more desirable results?>>
Dear Paul:
I'd like to humbly submit "real" learning focuses on helping others in ways which empowers us to embrace the necessary risks and take actions to effect such service.
We need to do more to reorient our individual and collective positions from being inwardly focused - i.e., what's in this for "me" - to being outwardly focused - i.e., how can I use these
ideas to help others.
I have found that the missing link in the learning process is the existence of a catalyst or facilitator - someone/somewhere/sometime
who reaches out in the spirit of partnership with a person/group in mind that he/she and you can work to help and serve.
Most of what passes for learning amounts to sparkler/candle/flashlight shows in the dark. We are mesmerized and distracted by the swerving
sparks of light, but when the time/energy/light runs out we are still in the same ole, same ole static, dark sitting on the sidelines
position.
Learning is not a roman candle, sparklers or fireworks show against a dark sky. Learning should be like the continuous power and
energy that comes from the sun. We may go to bed at night, but each morning the power and light of the sun gets us up.
True learning should be about catalyzing/facilitating/launching
the quest for discovery and fun through the portal of our inner childlike sense of curiosity and wonder. True learning happens only when we RISK. We need to light these viral, radiant fission reactions of light, faith, trust, energy and love deep in our hearts and souls. Then we need to go boldly into the world to show others, by way of simple example, how we can be selflessly happy and radiantly empowered to show more and more people how to launch their own lifelong learning journeys.
Try to imagine what you felt like when you were first learning about the world when you were a child. We need to recapture and share that childlike sense of risk, humility, happiness and
wonder with others.
Peace.
Fred Smart
The Connectivity Group, LLC
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[Bravo, Fred. I see you agree with the old and eminent educator, Carl Rogers, who said, "Teaching, in my estimation, is a vastly
overrated function......I see the facilitation of learning as the aim of education." So I ask again, how do we design websites that are true learning facilitators?--Community Moderator] |
