THE DAILY SPARK

IN SEARCH OF COMPETENCE

Pileated woodpecker pecking for food and possibly a home... they chip out multiple locations in search of home

Learning is about becoming incompetent on our way to getting better.  If you’re not open to the tension that is caused by knowing you could do better, it’s unlikely you’re willing to do the work to get better.  As you’re doing that work, there’s the satisfaction it brings, but also the knowledge that just a moment ago, you weren’t any good.

FROM: Seth Godin’s Daily Blog.

REFLECTION:

  • Are you willing to try new things? 
  • How willing are you to risk being “incompetent” to learn?
  • Imagine the satisfaction from being able to do something that you thought you couldn’t or showed improvement by risk and action.
  • Try something new…

CLARIFY A CONCEPT

How to clarify a concept you can’t articulate:

  1.  Change mediums.  Draw it.  Photograph it.  Sing it.
  2.  Change levels.  Explain what is one level up (bigger picture) or one level down (finer details).
  3.  Change fields.  What would this concept look like in different fields?

Quote by James Clear: 3-2-1- Thursday Blog

REFLECTION:

  • Is there a concept or situation you are challenged by?
  • What if you tried another approach?
  • Todays message from James Clear offers a new roadmap of possibility… try one or all the steps.

COMMA vs. PERIOD

Never place a period where God has placed a comma.

Quote by Gracie Allen

REFLECTION:

  • WOW… that’s a saying!    It requires that you have a little faith… maybe a lot of faith.
  • Have you placed a period where maybe there is a comma … A relationship with a spouse or friend, a health challenge for you or someone you love, a difficult work situation.
  • What if there is just a comma – not a period how does that shift things?