Tag: easy

Start simple

Posted on by philipdodson

We’re designed not to expend energy, as for most of the human race’s existence, food was hard to come by.

Early humans didn’t go for a jog for fun, there were no gyms, we got food and then rested.

The other thing, doing things that were potentials for being ridiculed and ostracised from the ‘tribe’, so for example things that had a risk, stopped us. After all being shut out had serious survival consequences.

So we have to override these mechanisms that stop us from doing stuff by making it simple and easy to do.

Start small, take little daily steps and make it simple.

If learning was easy I’d be smart

Posted on by philipdodson

I’ve discovered rather painfully, on more than one occasion in life, that learning for me is tough.

It requires me to understand others and me, which means listening.

It then requires a willingness to change and to realise that the choices that I’ve made and continue to make, have consequences for me and others.

It requires me to leave the right and wrong behind and to be accountable, responsible but free from reproaching me and others.

Learning is one of the hardest things I have to do.

I realised most of all that I can only do it if I want to.

If learning was easy, perhaps I’d be smart, but the struggle of learning makes all that more satisfying and lasting.

On with the struggle, the baby steps to learning pay off if I’m patient.