No beginners please
Each day is a new story, a new beginning toward end. I begin in the morning and i stop in the night. Old habits are revealed anew, each day. I give up thinking i am a beginner. I am not a beginner tap dancer. I am not a beginner student of economics. I am not a beginner sales person. I am not a beginner sailor. I am not a beginner.
Because I am beginning all the time and will always be. A man, Gilmore (a metaphysician of rythm), made me realize that in my vocabulary, the word beginner, has no place anymore. Beginning is to belittle, is to excuse, is to scale down, is to compare, is to sum up events over time that link together to where you are now - to where you think you are now. In any moment of time though, I am endowed with...something more.
Something not specific enough to name it until you perform, act, cut, slice, dance, write, work, bite, whatever it is that you do. Something specific enough to not be merely the sum of past events linking together. The potential of any of my actions is unborn until I perfom, is the sum of my mind/body system right at that time of perfomance.
How possibly could anybody achieve a kind of work or result that is out-of-grasp, out-of-expectation, out-of-convention, out-of-comfort or out-of-time? And therefore potentially something important? By reasoning beginnner - no. So - give it up.
Published: March 04, 2004
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In doing what comes naturally one develops an awareness, a heightened sense of feeling and sensitivity. Confidence derives from a set of values and beliefs and is based on an attitude of self-reliance.
The mind of and infant is emty; it is fresh. It has no preconceived ideas; it sees things as they are. It is free from the habbits of experience and therefore open to all possibilities.
Experience the moment right now, directly. The effect of such action gives you the power to cope. Coping appropriatly is a key concept. Intuitive experience. The nature and the context of that experience are irrelevant. Understanding without words. This intuitive experience is not instinct.
The idea is, of course, not to intellectualize the experience. Satisfying sex and a good joke are just two examples of the point to be made. To know and to act are not the same. Be natural. Just do it.
What makes you "good" at something? Be it investmentbanking, cooking or tap dancing. It is your your training, the tools you use and your experience in various degrees, but the missing element is the crucial one. Your attitude, your approach, the sense of convidence you bring to an activity is what people observe when they say your good at it.
If you want to see, see right at once. When you begin to think, you miss the point. Naturalness of the behaviour, no time to prepare, no time to think, no time to hesitate. Confidence. There you are.....