Lesson confessions
We've learned a thing or two
If you were going to take stock of what you’ve learned or feel very clearly is a lesson in this life what would they be? Dunning-Kruger effect tells us the more we know the less we think we know. It also better explains the pandemmy by reminding us that those who think they know the most are often trapped in ignorance no one can break them out of.
When we know something deeply does it matter if it’s right or wrong? When we feel a sense of knowing to our bones would any bit of data make a difference? Probably not.
There’s universal knowledge we can all agree upon. The sky is blue, 2+2 = 4, and so on and yet we still make some time to backtrack and argue about that all over again.
Universal knowledge is kind of a snooze, the fact that we debate a lot of it is infuriating. The personal lessons are the interesting ones. Why do some of us learn don’t do ___ in teenage years and some of us learn it in our elderly times? Why can some of us tick life lessons off by the box and some of us we keep revisiting them never seeming to get new lessons?
Why do we have to re-learn so many things? Or struggle to really comprehend basic truths? No clue but of course we share the things we have to keep learning and hope finger’s crossed, this time we got it.
What lessons are you learning?
xoxo,
A+N
Want to learn more about who you are? Meg’s a cute teacher.
Writing it out to see what you’ve done, learned, accomplished, desire for life, we like
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It helps us learn if we know our why. We think about having lives we love forever and what do we need to do in order for that to happen.
Ask Polly’s Looking vs. Feeling Beautiful piece is a brilliant audit of connecting feeling and knowing.
An exercise reader, artist, psychic Marcella Kroll had Anna do many moons ago that she stands by and practices to this day is to take a sheet a paper and list out every month, and under each month write what you accomplished. This isn’t just society’s view of accomplishment but what you perceive as an accomplishment. It can be that you survived that month, or quit chewing gum. The point of the exercise is unacknowledged accomplishments weigh on us just like perceived failures. We think learned lessons are the same. List out what you’ve learned, list out what you’ve accomplished this year, get it out of your head and see it. There’s power in seeing and letting yourself internalize it.