possibility at our fingertips lies
centuries of global knowledge and skills
never before have we had access to such
depth and breadth of information onto
ernesto physics biochemistry languages
philosophy psychology whatever subject
you can think of you can that you can go
down just about any house you can
imagine but I’ll have to leave your home
want improve your fitness that’s inside
of me like playing musical instrument
there in advance knitting patterns
whatever skill you can think of and even
if learning in front of our computer
doesn’t do for you you can more than
likely find a teacher school workshop or
community in the direction of your
choice how long ago was this science
fiction never before have we had such an
exquisite menu a possibility on dinner
hands
we’re living in a time of immense
distraction information overload
paralyzed by choice unable to finish one
hour to go before or after the next
skimming your page about page swimming
and second time information unable to
tell what’s true goldfish now tell jokes
so how can we navigate this experience
in the best possible light what are the
tools we can collect help us on our
journey my journey into the exploration
of learning began the fire Nazi
appointment I was always very shy going
up didn’t like to be center of attention
the idea of being in the spotlight
terrified me well when I saw someone
performing the fire I was amazed I
thought that could be a cool thing to do
so I thought online found some
instructions started to practice on my
as I practiced I fell in love which
opening the possibilities for I could do
watching up something that was once
impossible and so far beyond me
okay effortless I became addicted to the
satisfaction of learning the next move
and so I began to look into how could I
learn things faster more efficiently
more easily get my learning fix so I
began to experiment with different ways
I could practice I began to notice what
seemed to make a difference I started to
look to other fields such as psychology
meditation yoga sports science and so on
for inspiration I was always more
interested in the tools I could use
brought in just a theory
what are the choices that I could make
in the moment that would help me in my
process what we’re gonna tools that I
could collect don’t help me on my
journey I’d like to share some of the
tools and techniques and perspectives I
found to be very useful my learning
process it’s important that these
explorations become our own individual
journeys explore what works for you
while remaining open to possibilities
and inspiration from all angles it’s
important to keep the beginner’s mind in
all things when we think we know
something we close down to further
exploration in that direction why would
we need to look any further if we
already knew thinking we know makes us
more difficult to go deeper into into
how much do we know if reality almost
all of it have we almost figured it out
passenger or are we just scratching the
surface can you consider the possibility
that perhaps everything we think we know
is wrong
great learners throughout history always
remain open to possibility all I know is
that I don’t love it one of the first
techniques that I began to use and I
found effective was breaking it down and
this we take what we’re trying to learn
we break it into its simplest parts
learn each part and put it all back
together again this is much easier way
to assimilate and digest information our
skills if I wanted to learn how to
juggle juggle three balls the easiest
way to go about it is to start with one
searching for the perfect trail move all
this the two balls practice starting
with the right practice starting with
the left
I keep building it up until you add this
breaking it down breaking down while
we’re trying to learn into more
manageable pieces gives us a much bigger
experience of positive feedback as
opposed to the few leads of frustration
of failure that we often feel it would
be aimed for the end process so breaking
it down it helps us to enjoy the journey
it also gives us a greater understanding
of the parts that make up the chosen
subject or skill another technique that
fits together with breaking it down is
shifting focus this is the practice of
consciously changing where our attention
is when we’re trying to learn something
we’re trying to do something so by
shifting focus we concentrate on we were
fine one aspect of a time when I spent
at a time as well as collecting more
perspectives of the team we’re trying to
learn more perspectives we can see
something from greater understanding we
can have that thing it’s like if we’re
looking at an object sitting on the
table from one angle we’ve got one
perspective we’ve got one idea in order
to develop a greater understanding we
need to pick that object up we look at
from all the tangles we need to explore
we need to open a look inside need to
take it apart we need to look at each of
the parts from every angle need to take
you to the parts apart and we need to
put it all back together again so in the
example of a boy spinning shiftingfocus
could involve putting all our attention
into our left hand all our attention
into the right point into the
relationship between right and left into
just the top of the pattern it could be
put an earth engine into our shoulders
our posture into the feeling of our feet
on the floor there’s an infinite amount
another technique that I find very
useful and try to learn something is
something I call active focus this is
the practice of being actively involved
in what we’re trying to do in the moment
as opposed to running on all the pilots
with our minds a million miles away
similar to concepts such as mindfulness
presence are being in the now in order
for active focus to be effective when he
developed the skill of observing the
mind can you step back and observe your
thoughts can you observe the part of you
that’s observing can you see the inner
dialogue the stories and judgments be
made once we can observe the mind it’s
important to practice gently bringing
ourselves back so when we notice that
our mind has wandered off you’re
compassionate with ourselves and gently
bring ourselves back to what we were
doing when we beat ourselves up over to
state 4 – we only add more clutter as
well as conflict to the situation taking
us even further from what we were trying
to do in the first place active focus
notice when your mind has drifted off
don’t make a big deal out of it gently
bring yourself back the breath is one of
the most powerful tools that we can use
training to use the breath to focus them
to relax some of the most effective ways
to a to learning process the graph can
be used to intensify your focus or to
bring yourself back to the moment
brendin Straubel and breeding techniques
are used by athletes martial artists
musicians Yogi’s high-level performers
of all kinds experiments which using
your breath as you practice are as you
to something breed into the physical
sensation of what is happening breed
your attention back to the
task at hand the brand is highly
addictive relaxation and also therefore
to stress under stress the flight or
fight response tends to kick in a parts
of our brain the more difficult access
us assistant charges to run as fast as a
gun or fight with all that strength
useful we’re going to cause a tiger not
so useful when trying to practice your
golf swing or anything else that
requires fine motor skills information
recall or information absorption so it’s
so important to keep relaxing as we do
anything or as we try to learn something
relaxation is a skill that needs to be
practiced and like any skill you brought
so experiment using your breath to relax
the body and minds that was a a very
brief introduction to some of the
techniques that I found to be useful in
my learning experiences and I greet you
to try it out for yourself but I arrived
at the point where I had such an arsenal
of different techniques but it didn’t
always have the inspiration motivation
or energy to use them there were so many
things I wanted to learn so many
directions I wanted to explore but the
difficulties in my life and in my
America process got in the way of these
amazing opportunities right in front of
me I began to realize that all the
techniques and all the information in
the world are useless unless we have the
energy and the clarity to use them so I
began to explore and look into what
those help me in my process I noticed
that I was beating myself up for not
behaving and being the way that I wanted
to be here I was with all the tools and
all the opportunities were paralyzed and
I gave myself a hard time for it at a
certain point I realized that it wasn’t
helping but the inner conflict is
stopping even more of my strengths more
of my energy making it more difficult to
do the things that I wanted to do and to
live the way that I wanted to live so
instead of going head-to-head with
myself I tried to force myself to be
another way I started to experiment and
play with the idea of adjusting the
foundations of where I acted from I know
this stuff if I took care of myself and
if I was able to hear my inner space
even a little
I would not surely begin to behave in
ways that were more in line with how I
wanted to be how can we optimize the
entire system that we operate from what
are the tools and practices we can
collect to help create a healthy body
how can we look at all the aspects of
our lives and push them piece by piece
or positive directions but sometimes
when we’re so wrapped up in our own
difficulties it can be hard to see a way
out with all the problems surrounding us
internally and externally
it can be you can all feel so
overwhelming one evening my father came
to the kitchen very agitated
someone had plucked all of the aprons
from the tumble dryer into the club all
the aprons from the washing machine into
the tumble dryer without a month
haggling at first so the whole thing had
turned into this big tight mouth I told
him to leave him with me and I’ve tried
to start that but first I was pulling a
disavow it wasn’t sure if it was helping
her just making things worse so I
followed one stream to attend and just
focused on that but first it was
difficult when I finally unraveled it I
realized that the whole knot loosened I
would each straighten tonight freeze the
looser the hole became this became a
beautiful analogy for me not to get
wrapped up and overwhelmed by all the
problems and all the difficulties
surrounding us but just to focus of one
thing at a time if we can clear that
everything else becomes more simple it’s
like when our head is so wrapped up with
stuff so tangle of we don’t have any
space to focus our mind just keeps
getting caught in all of the problems
well if we can free any part of that we
free a bit more space for ourselves to
use our inner tangle could be that
mountain of dishes that keep staring at
us or that thing on the to-do list that
still hasn’t been done or maybe there’s
a comfortable conversation you need to
have
and every time you see that person think
of them or someone mentions them our
mind gets hooked it gets filled with the
problem what if we can take ourselves
and push ourselves true down to a
comfortable process of cleaning the mess
having that conversation or whatever it
is all of which tend to be a much less
of a big deal
often that the mind makes them out to be
if we can do that we get this feeling of
a weight off our shoulders we no longer
need to think about that anymore we
freed somebody in your tangle creating
more of a spaciousness to operate from
untangle one part and the whole pattern
becomes easier this is the most
incredible time in history and if we can
learn how to navigate it and if we can
teach our children the skills and
disciplines of how the navigators
because this can be the most amazing
revolutionary evolutionary time that
humankind has ever experienced as
opposed to the disaster of the creator
of the distraction field
domedown ad D pandemic that it could be
we have the tools of knowledge to make
this world a complete success for all of
we just need to learn how to how to use
those tools use that knowledge and how
to navigate the obstacles are preventing
this from happening so stay open and
explore what which tools work for you
adjust your foundations optimize your
systems and keep gently picking yourself
up because they’ll have your attorneys [Applause]