Why You Should Celebrate Confusion
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Are You Confused?
Let’s take a look at the good side. Learning is taking an unknown and linking it to a known.
Confusion is the first step to awareness. Confusion is the brain asking, “What does this mean?”
Anthony Robbins, the most recognized trainer and speaker in the field of personal development and peak performance teaches his audience to celebrate when they are confused.
Why? Because we are about to learn something.
あたらし pronounced Ah-ta-ra-shi
By itself, we are confused because we don’t have anything to connect it to.
When we are confused, our brain is searching all over to connect something we don’t know with something we do know. Connecting the unknown which is あたらし with the known. If you already know Japanese, then we could have used an alien word of qzdjfw to make the same point.
One of the major flaws poor teachers use is to explain one highly technical term with another highly technical term that they assume we should no. Assume nothing and teach as if you are teaching someone seeing it or hearing it for the first time. When we get a lot of information that seems foreign to us that are assumed that we should know, people tend to feel less intelligent and close up.
Genius is about making the complex simple. Geniuses use analogies and metaphors to simplify the teaching. Most great teachers teach using stories or analogies. If you can explain rocket science using the analogy of making a sandwich. You’d get your point across to most people unless you were in an isolated culture where they have never seen a sandwich. What do you do then? Then you can explain it in simpler terms like in nature, the weather, our bodies.
It’s about relating to things they do know.
Without giving you directly the meaning of あたらし, in a moment your mind will be able to figure it out. Without あたらし objects or events, our lives would lack variety and things will get boring and old. For example, in the US every 5-7 years, most people buy a あたらし car, not because the old one doesn’t run but because they want something あたらし for the way it makes them feel by giving them variety thru its style, performance, status symbol, etc.
When a connection is made, you now just learned something あたらし. Celebrate!
“The only stupid question is the question left unasked.”
Ask questions until you get the connections. A good question to ask is can you give me a simple analogy or a story?
Learning is like raindrops. Each raindrop is a nugget of information. The ground is like your mind, fertile and made for growing plants and fruits.
Sometimes when we learn it seems we are flooded with raindrops and the ground is saturated and creates large puddles. You know the ones I’m talking about, the ones that are so fun that as a kid you jumped right in the middle of it to make a big splash.
What’s great about the puddles are that our subconscious mind gets what our conscious doesn’t and overnight while you sleep is when the raindrops nourish the ground and by morning the puddles are gone.
Enjoy the rain and the puddles and do something あたらし to nourish your spirit!
To Your Genius,
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Great post Eiji! I think how you use “Ah-ta-ra-shi” in this post is a great example of GENIUS at work
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Joe Vitale put is this way in his book “Life’s Missing Instruction Manual”:
“Confusion is the wonderful state before clarity.”
So it is OK to be confused… it really is something to celebrate as we are about to learn something.
Keep your Genius flowing!
Peace & Blessings,
Andre
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Thanks Andre! Love the quote by Joe Vitale. Yes, life does not come with an instruction manual and for most it’s not user friendly.
So glad to know that confused is good. I’m there half of my waking moments LOL….. Now I can be OK with it thanks to our great post.
I always loved the quote “A confused mind does nothing” and I’ve always followed it up with “except to let you know that it’s time to get to work!
Thanks Debbie! I’ve heard “A confused mind says no.” in sales training but never that one. Love your addition. =)
I love how you turn a word that immediately brings negative thoughts to a persons mind into something positive.
It is very true that confusion is the first step to awareness. As long as you take the next step and not curl up on the couch and hide from your confusion you are in good shape.
Thanks for pointing this out to us.
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Wow, you make such a great point here Eiji. Most people tend to give up once the run into a barrier like confusion but instead digg a little deeper and see if you can find the answer to your confusion. And maybe you might learn something in the process…
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Hi Eiji! I’ve heard Tony Robbins say that, and sometimes it’s the only thing that makes me feel better when I get confused and FRUSTRATED! I say to myself…”I’m about to learn something”, and I always do! Great post!
Thanks Judy! Great to see you implement what you learn. I can tell that is likely the #1 reason why you achieved all the successes you’ve had in your life. That is real knowledge and wisdom.
Fake knowledge comes from one of my favorite quotes is “To know and not to do is not yet to know.”
Thank you for being an example!
Hi Eiji,
I love your analogy of the raindrops turning into puddles then being soaked up in your mind. When I was at university I would study into the night, when I woke up it was like my brain had filed everything in the right spot, or soaked up the puddles like you say. Your brain sorts thing out for you, don’t make it complicated for it, just let it do its job!!
Great post!
Cheers,
Lynn
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Hey Eiji…great analogy with the raindrops and the puddles. It creates a nice picture in the brain…helps to connect the dots and minimize the confusion.
I like the post very much. Instead of giving up when we are confused it is a great time to look for an opportunity to grow.
Blessings my friend…
Thanks Eiji, What a refreshing post. Connecting the dots in my life seems like a life long process. I guess my sponge is still not quite full…is it ever really? It’s great to meet you an be inspired. Thanks.
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