5.3.2 Learning to Learn Supporting evidence - Un/Learning journal

How to learn with freetime -- infusions come from 

1. shareef, 
2. last child in the woods, 
3. Gaia content is less important than process they reveal

• learn how to relate, connect, 
• empathy, problem solve
• learn how to think, design

I realize that I am good at all of these except solving problems. . .i don't know how to solve problems;  like being told/shown how to solve problems and i can replicate; in kolbs terms, i don’t think i am good at active experimentation until i have had concrete experience, reflective observation and abstract conceptualization

The only uniqueness that I may offer as a learner is my insistence that there is no box which holds the truth.  Indeed, I may enter finance or nuclear power as the path toward greatest happiness and the design, the story that I construct in the scenario in which I am is the touchstone to my common sense.  For I have never had the 'common sense' because I see in the accelerated era of the 21st cenury, what is common, merely indicates the current cosmology in which we are trapped.  I indeed, am a pluralistic relativis.  I celebrate my lack of common sense for I can see that causality is constructed in each moment to e cast aside and judged by those who didn't sell out to this storyline.   However, whenever we choose a truth, that represents a selling out of the ubiquity of truth and we  must create structure and absolutes within our realm or we float in the ever widening relativism of   . . . . .Don't get me wrong, I don't want to sell out to a system that injures or denigrates any sentient beings, yet since invariably all systems structures rigidity yield constancy through oppression, I must choose else oppress myself.   I hope to take this wisdom of being a learner to herald laughter, to heralf gratitude, to herald empowerment of the local players in my cast of life.   I can see what anyone engages in as the devil's work for we struggle here in purgatory to create laughter and joy and I hope my structure can value appreciation, can value what is valued and give the gift of acceptace of what is all around me even as what is all around me constantly evolves.    Key outcomes include the awareness of appreciation, empowerment, support and acceptance for I am smart and critical enough to tell anyone why they are insane for innumerable reasons.  And this awareness leads to Hamlet's paralysis which engenders further pain for there indeed is value in implementation of acceptance despite all systems being imperfect.  

The learning review is showing me how insidiously some learning gets in while I steep in a system.  The day by day changes seem so small but they accumulate  Glad I am steeping in Gaia which also inspired steeping in the Apple Store. 

•  Design has been paramount
• Organization of thoughts : bullet points

 Teaching/Documenting/Organizing what I am learning is crucial.  I am seeing that when I immediately Present on that which I am learning, I know so much.  For instance, after reading 4 books on Baby Management and spending 2 months with a baby, I felt competent, indeed highly skilled, at presenting on this topic.  I recognize that there are MANY diverse systems of belief about Babies whichi is why perhaps this is the perfect illustration because despite 20 years in teh food industry, I feel it in my bones, but sometimes I feel like I can no longer bring the passion or the beginner's mind to how to tell people about food.  Sometimes I can and certainly I see value in mastery but engaged novice-hood is powerful and should be utilizedespecially by effiective learners. 

Talked with Chloe today about my website  -- had the grateful recognition that basing my website off of models (like chloes) is a fantastic idea.  I am good at shifting from a known rather than creating out of nowhere.  I am inspired at how easeful using templates makes my life.  And then invariably, I can and do make everything my own.  I couldn't reproduce someone else's to the T even if I tried.  This feels connected to my last journal about being willing to use what is rather than reinventing the wheel in each moment. 

The other insight I have had this week is that I don't need to write every link on my website.  I have the breadth and authenticity issue of never using canned foods in my cooking.   I want to do everything from scratch.  But today I gave myself permission to do as many links as possible to other cool people that I know and what I believe written by other people.  It's a great feature of the web to connect and draw the webs of relationship.  I can work on making simple elevator pitches for something an expert that I know of believes and states more articulately than I am able now.

Regarding my website

I realize that links to information that I value is equally valuable to paraphrasing that information into something that I created.  I am getting over the idea that I have to do everything.

I realize that part of my edge is why my site has any validity as a source of infomration. hopefully it is in how I present and organize information in an accessible way.  Also, the people who know me from massage and catering who would like to see my values/voice on a myriad of other topics.  I am glad I am unlearning the need to do everything.  I can solely provide a link to someone who I like the way they make ghee or whatever..