Mind Is the Master

“Mind is the Master that Molds and Makes,
and Man is Mind,
and evermore he takes,

the Tool of Thought and shaping what he Wills,
brings forth a Thousand Joys … a Thousand Ills.

He Thinks in Secret and it Comes to Pass.
Environment is but his Looking Glass.”

 James Allen

The Mature, Thinking Mind

is adjusted to Uncertainty.

Knows he does not “Know All” about anything.

Knows the only kind of Security is derived from Infinite Flexibility of Mind, Unending Re-Orientation.

Author Unknown, but if you who wrote it, please tell Bobby

DEFINITIONS:

Lecturing is when a speaker presents an idea with the Intent to Impose his Will to accept that idea upon the recipient

Teaching is when a speaker offers and idea and leaves the decision of whether or not to adopt the idea to the Free Will of the recipient.

GENERAL RULE:

A Lesson is often Remembered …

but a Lecture is Almost Never remembered until repeated …

and then is usually remembered as having been a “Turn Off.”

When you Lecture:

1. You Prevent your own Lesson from having the opportunity to be learned …

and actually Encourage the Listener to Reject the Idea you wish them to have.

2. Lecturing trains them to be predisposed to Reject Everything you say
you actually “turn them off” every time they hear the lecturing tone of voice that goes with lecturing.

3. You build “Walls” between the Speaker and the Recipient which may prevent Communication … at future times when telling them something may be of Great Importance to them.

4. Your failure to learn how to properly deliver the idea … may Actually Deprive the Recipient of an information source they really need and want …

But When You Teach:

1. You Encourage the Recipient to Learn;

2. You Train him to Want to Listen to you;

3. He often Wants to be Near you.

Here’s Proof:

People who Lecture must deliver their Lectures Over and Over.

and the Recipients try to Escape Hearing.

People who teach usually only have to Teach a Lesson, Once,

and as soon as the Recipient realizes the Value of the Lessons that person often

TRIES TO BE NEAR THE TEACHER SO AS TO GET MORE !

Robert Jorrie

The Teacher will come

when the Student is Ready.

Robert Jorrie

When the class’s grades are “Bad”

it means that only 1 of 3 possible things happened:

          1. The teacher didn’t teach, or

          2. the test was “too hard,” or

          3. you might have an aberrant class … but that is very Rare.

Robert Jorrie

Teaching is the Ultimate Test

          of the combination of Intelligence,

Articulation,

People Reading,

Intuition

and the desire for Excellence.

Robert Jorrie

I am a person who likes to help others.

I have learned a lot in Life … much of it, the “Hard Way” …

and when I observe something happening wherein I have experience and haved, “earned my way” to success through the path of prior failures,

I often want to help others by suggesting methods that I have used successfully so that they are not required to repeat my prior errors and repeat my pain of Learning.

The problem I have is, that in doing so, I sometimes deprive those people of the privelege of learning through their own experiences.

Quaere:

How do you know “when” to offer your help and when to remain silent and just watch someone you care about receive a painful lesson you absolutely could have prevented?

Which is “Better?”

Is it “Better” to “Butt out,” be silent, just watch and let them get the experience the same way I did … irrespective of the pain I could have prevented?

or is it “better” to “go ahead” and risk the possibility of their resentment by offering suggestions to try to help them avoid that unnecessary pain?

Which is the “better way” to love my friend?

Robert Jorrie

 Tell me

                    and I’ll Forget.

                    Show me,

                              and I’ll Remember

Involve me,

                                        and I’ll Understand.

An old Chinese Proverb

DEFINITION OF SUCCESS:

Success is obtaining Better or Different Results.

DEFINITION OF NORMALITY:

Normality is achieving Results just like most of the

General Population does.

RULE:

To Achieve Better or Different Results,

you Must Use Better or Different Methods.

THEREFORE:

Being “Successful” DEMANDS that you be Different or “Abnormal”

because if you Use the Methods that Others Use,

you obtain the Results that most of the population obtains from using those methods,

i.e., “Normal” Results.

Robert Jorrie
1977

To laugh often and much;

to win the respect of intelligent people and the
affection of children;

to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;

to appreciate beauty;

to find the best in others;

to leave the world a little better place than when we found it, whether by a healthy child, a garden path or a redeemed social condition;

to know even one life breathed easier because you lived.

This is to have succeeded.

Bessie Anderson Stanley