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Hi, my name's Andy, and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Thursday morning.
I don't know if you're learning any new skills at the moment.
I know lots of people have been learning lots of new things over the last six months,
especially when lockdown was prevalent everywhere.
Lots of people were writing on social media about new things they were learning.
I was chatting to a friend, a good friend the other day, whose son is learning to play the piano.
And they said before COVID happened, he would go along and he would learn to play the piano.
So I thought you'd have a lesson once a week.
And I was working well for him.
He was learning and they thought after COVID, how are they going to catch up?
So he hadn't any lessons for a long time and they were thinking of sort of going to multiple lessons a week.
And it reminded me of a time in the monastery.
It's several different monasteries.
If you're wondering where I'm going with this and how we've just jumped from a piano lesson to the monastery,
this is about the nature of advice, how much is useful and how much is actually harmful.
And is there somewhere between the two where we can benefit from the advice of somebody
who has walked that path before, who's learnt that skill before?
And yet at the same time find sort of a balance if you like,
where we're actually curious and interested enough ourselves in the process
that we are learning the skill alongside that advice.
Because when I think back, I can think of one monastery where I would see the teacher every single day.
Ten minutes, scheduled every single afternoon.
And there was benefit to that. It was kind of nice to touch base at the same time.
There was maybe not enough had happened in that period of time to really discuss a lot.
And it also set up an expectation that there should be something that had happened within that period of time.
I felt like I couldn't keep pace with the expectation of the skill.
And then if I think of another monastery, it was the other extreme.
We would sometimes go months and months. We might even go six months in retreat
and not have any contact with our teacher at all.
The idea being, well, I give you the instructions and then it's just up to you.
Go and get on with the practice. And sure questions are going to arise.
That's okay. Let the questions arise. Don't get too caught up in them.
Don't think too much about them. Just get on with the practice.
If you really have a question that you just can't get past, write it down.
We'll talk about it in six months time.
I found that really, really helpful.
But what it taught me was that actually a lot of the questions that arise when we're learning a skill.
We're actually capable of answering ourselves.
Not in a overly confident or sort of arrogant way.
There's a tendency sometimes when we have access to a teacher to become dependent on that teacher.
So rather than thinking it through, rather than being interested and curious,
we simply ask the question because we want the answer.
The thinking mind wants the answer.
But actually in creating the space where we're not able to do that,
we have to explore it a little bit more.
Not just through the thinking mind, but through the direct experience of the skill itself.
And so we learn in a different way.
And I think that kind of learning is really, really important.
So whatever skill you might be learning or you might be thinking of learning,
just ensuring that there is that space around it that you have access to a teacher who you trust and who will help you.
Kind of learn the basics and help that to evolve over time.
But also who will leave enough space for you to investigate and explore and learn in your own way.
Because learning for each and every one of us is unique.
And that's why I think skills are reflected in the world so differently through each and every one of us.
It's why musicians and artists and chefs and everything else.
They express themselves in different ways because they've learned in different ways.
And they've processed that learning in different ways.
So rather than thinking that you are missing out on something by not necessarily having access to a teacher all of the time in something,
instead actually embracing that and finding how you can bring your own unique lens to that activity or skill.
Thanks for listening today.
I look forward to seeing you back here tomorrow.
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