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Knowledge is Active

Post author By jrlsage
Post date March 30, 2017

Let’s talk about “Jeopardy Knowledge” for a second.

At the start of 2017, we spent a month going over what it meant, the dangers, and some of the active use of working with “the surface.”

After spending this month working through “emotional layering” another piece of the puzzle suddenly makes sense.

Learning something requires our whole selves coming to play.

Often, we just rely on the rational, as if learning something is a switch on a wall.

“On” or “Off.”

Our brains don’t work like that.

Knowledge at the surface is passive and stagnant. Mastery is active, growing like tentacles of vines on the side of an old house.

If we don’t acknowledge that incoming information can play with our emotions and then recognize that feeling, we get stagnant. We risk only staying at the surface.

From the surface, the only knowledge we get is “Jeopardy Knowledge.” Working with only that is a quick way to lose the room when it matters.

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Sleep is important, you cannot survive without it. People pride themselves on a lack of sleep, however, as the world gets more knowledgeable about sleep this is wrong-headed. Sleep cannot be understated, you need to get it if you plan on being at the top of your game. It is critical for you to get at least 6 hours of sleep every night. Proper sleep promotes knowledge retention and allows you to keep your complete attention throughout the day.

All the knowledge in the world means nothing if you don’t keep it. Your value to the important people in your life is often based on how much you know as well as how you communicate it. I often notice when I don’t sleep, I lose the ability to come up with facts and figure any structure. The result is a lack of confidence from the people around me and a lack of control on my part. It doesn’t look good, and I seem like I didn’t do my homework. Your brain does a cleanup at night. It takes everything you took in that day, whether it be from experience,book, or conversation, and begins the process of sorting it. If you don’t sleep long enough, you don’t get the benefit of this process, and most of the things you learned that day go away.

Your attention is important, especially if you want to learn anything. We all know how it feels out of sorts, staring into space to try to understand what is happening in front of us. It all seems like gibberish, the “huh” moment. It feels like wasted time, and it essentially is. What is the point of sitting and learning things you can give your attention. Like knowledge retention, getting enough REM sleep is known to give relief and allow the attention to get better.

IF you miss at least 6 hours of sleep, then it is like driving a car without proper maintenance. It runs, and no one will know the difference, but you are eventually will head for a breakdown. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and sleep helps your body in all types of ways, especially when keeping your attention and retention. Your sharpness depends on your sleep, and without it, you are going half speed.

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Video – Knowledge Is Not Understanding

Post author By jrlsage
Post date June 28, 2015
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Knowledge is not understanding. Enjoy 🙂

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Losing My Self Connection

Post author By jrlsage
Post date March 23, 2015
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One of my greatest fears as a kid was losing respect. When I was younger, that’s how the world(my thoughts) measured everyone, how much respect you garnered by your peers. Respect was an equation, with some parts how brave you were, mixed with some parts how funny you were, mixed with some parts how smart you were, finished with a layer of cool. To lose that meant banging around the bottom of the social ladder until you landed in a of victim-hood. It was a scary place.

It was hard to not measure myself by the outside world. I am what the world sees, at least I thought. When possible, I thought I had to reform to what the world wanted, so I could eventually land at the top of the social totem pole.

This wasn’t a great strategy. I lost myself, my self connection,in the struggle.

I allowed the world to decide my self-worth, and through that I made horrible decisions that cost me nothing but time,money, and connection. Instead of learning how to dance with my peculiarity, I ran from it. I closed my ears off to my internal music, and the result was I became deaf to the most interesting parts of myself.

One of my resolutions this year is to make sure that I get closer to that connection – get closer to myself. Slowly cutting through the wires of noise that were strewn about my mind to get to that signal that lasted as a kid.Its been a process, but I am learning the closer you get to it, the closer the world offers solutions to problems you unconsciously had. Your art comes out, ready to take on these problems ahead of you.

Nothing is scarier, but in turn, nothing is more satisfying than self connection.

Tags knowledge, self connection, truth