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Earlier this year my motivation for creating content was at an all time low. I still managed to produce regular content, but it was out of obligation rather than for the love of doing so.
I felt like this self-improvement business was a big waste of time. I felt like everything I wrote was just commonsense bullshit that everybody already knew. Then first semester ended at school, and I got all new classes.
Like the semester before all my classes were easy. That is, all of them except Physics. I’ve always been a solid math student, but because of my school’s block scheduling, it’s been over a year since I last took a math class.
I haven’t lost any of my ability to think critically, but I no longer remember how to do things like sin, tangent, etc, and as a result Physics has been challenging to say the least.
I also have a first-time teacher who lacks teaching experience. I’ll give the man credit as he does his best, and brings positive energy to the room, but within a few days of having him as a teacher I realized he had a crucial flaw. He teaches in a style that assumes everyone has had a background in Physics.
If someone asked him to explain something he’d reference obscure Physics laws rather than explaining things in everyday English, and although I’ve struggled in his class I’ve also learned a valuable lesson from his mistake.
Often when you develop competency in something you lose perspective of what it’s like not to understand it.
My teacher often explains things in scientific language because he hasn’t yet gotten enough blank stares to remind him that people aren’t born with a knowledge of Physics.
Similarly after being deeply immersed in the field of personal development for the last three years many of the things I consider commonsense likely only seem simple to me because I’ve spent so much time processing all the nuances of them.
What I consider obvious will often take the form of an epiphany when presented to someone who’s never considered it, and this idea is applicable to any field.
As a former state league level soccer player it’s only common sense for me to check to the ball when someone passes it to me, yet last week when I told this to an incoming freshmen he’d never considered it, and using this idea was able to instantly become a more effective player.
That’s what I want for us as a community here. To be able to give each other ideas that may seem obvious to one of us, but take the form of an epiphany when presented to each other.
We’re likely going to have a big common ground of what we consider obvious, but often those ideas are still worth discussing because further conversation will only help to fully internalize them.
Overall, you should never feel like what you say lacks value simply because you perceive it as being obvious. What you consider common knowledge may induce a life-changing epiphany for someone who’s never considered it.
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Hope you’ve been enjoying the daily posts lately! If you have a request for a future post feel free to leave a comment below. I should be able to answer more questionsnow that I’m writing so much. Cheers!
Picture is from a trip to my Grandma’s old house in Arkansas. (April 2010)
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