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Dick Fosbury looked foolish jumping backwards at the 1968 Olympics. But he was willing to be a beginner again on the world stage, and the 'Fosbury Flop' changed high jumping forever. True experts aren't afraid to start over.
https://writingslowly.com/2026/01/18/the-spiral-of-mastery-why.html
#LifelongLearning #learning #BeginnersMind #GrowthMindset #ShuHaRi

Dick Fosbury looked foolish jumping backwards at the 1968 Olympics. But he was willing to be a beginner again on the world stage, and the 'Fosbury Flop' changed high jumping forever. True experts aren't afraid to start over.
https://writingslowly.com/2026/01/18/the-spiral-of-mastery-why.html
#LifelongLearning #learning #BeginnersMind #GrowthMindset #ShuHaRi

With a few deep breaths, welcome yourself to this moment.

Open up your field of awareness, observing with a fresh set of “eyes”, everything that is passing through your mind.

Allow each thought to simply come and go. Becoming an objective observer of your mind allows you to find the space between you and your inner thoughts.

#Meditation #beginnersmind #TakeABreath

“If the mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.”

Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind; p. 21.

#beginnersmind #philosophy #Monday #inspiration

getting a "merit" raise that's less than the cost of living increase for social security. #gratitude #capitalismRules #beginnersMind

In craft-based disciplines, you can often tell how experienced someone is by how basic or advanced their questions are when they’re learning something in the craft.

The more experienced they are, the more basic the questions they ask.

#craft #skill #BeginnersMind #mastery #DunningKruger

In craft-based disciplines, you can often tell how experienced someone is by how basic or advanced their questions are when they’re learning something in the craft.

The more experienced they are, the more basic the questions they ask.

#craft #skill #BeginnersMind #mastery #DunningKruger

The journey to virtue

The journey of the wise to virtue is as a journey to a remote land, or the ascent of a high mountain. People who travel to a faraway place start with a single step, and those who climb a high mountain start from the bottom.

~ Confucius

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§23 – Learning a new language

Chapter 23 is one of the longest in the book… it’s all of 2 pages, overflowing to begin a third. In it, Thibault presents the stages of learning and mastery of parkour/ADD via a metaphor about learning a new language.

Meanwhile, the local parkour community where I train, not nearly as often as I should, continues to grow and change. Long story omitted. These days, I find myself dropping in for an adults, beginners class once a week. A class, as it were, of the A-B-C’s, basic grammar and some short, simple words.

I’m old enough, and wise enough, to know that I can empty my tea cup, go to just about anything and find something useful to take away. And so I find myself faced with one of those kindergarten pencils and those sheets of paper with the widely spaced lines—they don’t want you to miss getting in between the lines and start crying. It’s the perfect opportunity to review so many lessons. To tinker with nuance, to fiddle with symmetry, to doodle without consequence.

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