Life – The Teacher
by Clyde Dennis, a.k.a. "Mr. How-To"
You’ve probably heard the phrase
"repetition is the mother of learning" well apparently it’s also the
mother of teaching. Often it seems, Life – The Teacher uses the tool of
repetition to imprint into our brains the lessons it’s needing to impart to
us. At least this has been my experience.
It has become clear to me that life gives the
same tests over, and over and over again until we demonstrate that we’ve
learned the lesson by passing the test. This teacher seems more than happy to
show us again and again why it may be a bad idea to take a particular action, or
choose one direction over another. The good news here is that it works both
ways. Like any good teacher choose properly and life smiles. Choose improperly
and life corrects.
Sometimes I wish and think that it would be
simpler and easier if the teacher would just make all of my decisions for me and
let me know exactly what I’m supposed to do, but of course that’s not the
way it works. In this teacher role life is just an administrator, not an advisor
or counselor. Life is there to administer and grade the tests.
Once you pass the test however, Life records
your grade and moves on to the next lesson. But don’t completely discard the
lesson you’ve just learned as over because it’s not. You may not see or have
to deal with this particular thing again for quite some time but you can bet at
some point down the road you will see it again. The lessons and tests we’ve
passed usually return in the form of pop quiz’s. Out of the blue one day an
opportunity to display this lesson learned will pop up and you’ll have to
conquer it all over again. If you fail or don’t score high enough on this
little pop quiz you’ll have to deal with it more and more often until you pass
the test again. Like starting over with it. The trick is to score high marks on
the lessons because the higher the score the less often life throws it at you.
Show a mastery of it, and it is presented as a test with much less frequency.
So the question: What are you tired of having
to deal with day in and day out? What lesson do you feel life is beating you up
with?
Want to get rid of it? Show life (and yourself)
that you get it. Do whatever you need to do to display that you’ve mastered
this particular lesson. Life will reciprocate by giving you a break from it. But
remember, Life is smart. You can’t trick it. The higher degree to which you
display a mastery of the lesson, the less frequently life will re-present it to
you.
Anyway, that’s my take. What’s yours?
Live some. Love some. Learn some. Everyday.
C...
About the Author:
Clyde Dennis, a.k.a. "Mr. How-To" has been writing and publishing
Articles and Newsletters online since 1999. Clyde's company EASYHow-To
Publications provides "How-To" information on How-To do, be or have
just about anything one can imagine. For more information visit http://www.EASYHow-To.com.
Email correspondence for Clyde should be sent to: cdennis at easyhow-to.com
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