Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

We often pay the tuition for learning, but neglect to learn anything.

I have blogged about this before. (From January 2010) I suppose I will stop blogging about this when the practice stops. Sorry, I guess that means that every few years I will blog about it again.

Is there any least bit of angst or upset in your life? (If the answer is, “No,” please email me as I want to meet you.) That angst and upset is tuition. That is something you are paying. It is costly, sometimes quite costly.

As usual, it is not the event, but the reaction to the event that you control. Take the extra step and learn a lesson or twelve.

• What happened?
• How could you have foreseen it?
• What did you do?
• What do you wish you did?
• How did you feel before, during, and after it?
• Do you have this feeling often?
• What do you do when you have this feeling?
• How do you feel when you have this feeling?
• What do you do when you have this meta-feeling?

There, just a few questions I wrote in thirty seconds with almost no thought. People have written books on the topic. I suppose too few persons read those books and too few persons are going to read this post.

Such is our state—we pay the tuition and skip the learning.