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Old 12-02-2010, 02:13 AM   #166
Tim Ruijs
 
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Re: Mindful Modeling and Mentoring

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Jon Reading wrote: View Post
To this point, I also think that teaching carries a burden of learning.
In this sense, I think shihan shed the role of instructing to undertake larger leadership roles.

I think of it as delegating elementary math to a quantum mathematics professor, sure you can do it but its better to use the resources of the mathematician to teach quantum math.
Last night I thought a bit more about this instructing and teaching aspect. And I came to the same conclusion you describe.
At some level instructing 'telling people what to do') is required to get them started. At a higher level the teacher has to rise above this instruction in order to progress himself (e.g. undertake larger leadership roles)

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Keith Larman wrote:
Amazing how words can take on so many levels of meaning. And sometimes that meaning is only accessible once you have enough time and experience to allow it to be accessible.
Exactly. Your level of understanding changes. In previous posts I referred to this as your frame of reference; it changes over time. It takes time to learn to observe at another level.

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* If you make a bad decision, you die.
* If you don't decide anything, you die.
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