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What could we learn?

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Philip Dodson Blog

Learning something new becomes harder and harder, or so we are told.

We are told that as you get older, then it is harder to learn. Is that true? The only way is to try learning new things and find out. However, that isn’t encouraged beyond the ‘training’ the system wants us to have.

I actually think this is yet another ploy of the industrialised world, in order to make sure we don’t learn and then we will not want to comply any more.

If we find out too much, we might uncover the truths, or realise that we have talents that are suppressed by the system. From a very early age we are always taught ‘don’t’ do that.

We are told not to cross the line, follow the rules and the system decides what is ‘appropriate’ to learn or not.

Well I am on a quest to keep learning, to keep trying new things, so that I can continue to improve what I create.

What we could all learn is limitless. With a short span of time in this world, why wouldn’t you want to keep learning new things? Equally with new skills what we can create is limitless.

Once you start…

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Philip Dodson #NewWorldProject

Once you start something, especially if you make a public announcement about it, you feel the pressure to keep it going, you also fear the ridicule of stopping and having to admit that it was a failure.

Like most things, there is a temptation to pick the easy ‘wins’ the ‘low hanging fruit’ and once you had those wins and picked the fruit that is in easy reach, then you face the hard stuff.

This is the real test of your faith, even though you’ve publicly stated that you are going to do a certain thing, you get faced with the hard work, the things that will really test your bravery, it will test you to see just how vulnerable you are prepared to be.

However, the more it feels uncomfortable, the more you feel the vulnerability and the desire to hide, then the more likely what you are doing is the right thing to do.

The more you challenge yourself to create the best you are capable of, your most rebellious work, your most daring ideas. Then the more our ‘chimp’ limbic brain will act up – good. That means you’ve hit the jackpot and if you haven’t got that feeling, then it’s not worth doing.

So once you start to feel the willingness to hide away and not do, then it is the best time to get that thing started.