Welcome to Part 5 of the "Who's Controlling Your Life?" arc. We started the discussion with therapy, workaholism, differences in different cultures, neurologic adaptations that can and can't be seen, dinosaurs, homosexuality and evolution in action. Part 2 wondered if big teeth and big muscles was an experiment that failed and part 3 questioned if homosexuality was another of Nature's experiments.
Part 4 reflected on some of childhood's mysteries. Here we discuss finding teachers who honor differences rather than attempt to beat them out of students (with apologies to Indian Schools, Catholic schools and all the other educational institutions that are stereotyped correctly or incorrectly as not dealing well with differences in the student body).
Part of recognizing you're different is deciding if you will foster those differences or not. In my case it meant either finding or being offered teachers who could help me decide if I wanted to foster my differences or not.That is an important point. Not "teachers who could foster my differences" but "teachers who could help me decide if that's what I wanted".
Disciplining the mind is (technically) no different than disciplining the body. There's the Nature v Nurture limitations again and that's about all. True teachers know the student's limits as well as they're own. If there's any difference between mind and body it's that muscles grow and tighten as discipline's applied. The mind? Does the skull reform as more training's applied? Do we grow a sixth finger as knowledge grows?
I sometimes wish it were so. Instead disciplines of the mind -- often closely tied to disciplines of the body -- manifest themselves in the looks given when the obvious is to others not so, when order leaps from where others can only see chaos.
(more to follow)
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