Failures fail but learners learn. By embracing your identity as a learner grants you with both the competency and willingness to learn.

You know who is a good example of learning? Toddlers.

“I know mom! Gaaaaa”. That’s a verbal tell that the enemy of learning called teenager, is showing. What are yours?

Sometimes we rush to get to AN answer but are unintentionally risking getting to the right answer. Sometimes we get j to analysis paralysis and NEVER know enough. Rushing and stalling are both enemies of learning.

Addiction to being eight and fear of being wrong are just some examples of enemies of learning. This week we will explore a few more.

Ok maybe it’s not ALWAYS bullshit. Sometimes compartmentalizing is good.

Is Freedom your core value too? Hmm. I wonder if we interpret freedom the same. See I believe freedom is about choices, but is not absent consequence. What do you think?

Suffering has a lot to do with how we experience a situation and that includes our assessments, beliefs and judgments. Here’s a for example. Let’s say you take on a new challenge... new job, motherhood, moving out, self isolation... when we start something new we are beginners. However we sometimes have expectations of excellence that is disproportionate to our experience as a learner. Suffering is what happens in the space between expectations and experience.

Spoiler alert. It’s bullshit.

You can either be virtuously ambitious OR you can be satisfied and proud but you cannot be both. This is a nefarious flavor of not enough ness. I asked if she knew any examples of someone who is both ambitious and present. If you can think of just ONE example of someone who defies your belief then you know it’s not a universal truth. So if it’s possible for them, perhaps it is possible for you. Challenge your beliefs by identifying the contradiction. Then you have possibility