Unstopping The Phenomenal in You

Unstopping The Phenomenal in You by Acknowledging the Phenomenal in Someone Else.

I start this post first with a challenge. That challenge is to celebrate the brilliance of someone else’s mind. There was a man by the name of Elisha that followed another brilliant man, Elijah, learning from his insights. Eventually surpassing the prowess that refined him. This man did twice as many miracles as Elijah demonstrated. I say all this to say, Don’t be so linear in limiting who you can gleen insights from. Finding out how to unlock the greatness in you sometimes takes the giftings of another that inspires you.

Eventually in the cycle of things, the student becomes the teacher. What you discredit may be quite the contrary as you apply yourself towards greater learning. You can become quite good at expressions of skills sets that might have otherwise lied dormant within you had you not sought out the inspiration of others.

Considering you as the teacher, your place vocationally speaking doesn’t extinguish your necessity nor your ability to contribute once a person that has learned all they can from you matriculates in another direction. For instance, by design a second grade teacher teaches second graders. It is the teachers job to train the second grader with the understanding that they will one day master the skills of the second grade. But that does not mean the second grade teacher no longer has value. It means to that group the teachers purpose has been fulfilled. It is just as important for the teacher to let go of the pupil after their mastery is evident as it is for them to be open to receiving the next pupils that require that teacher’s same giftings for maturing them.

There are four categories that I think are relevant towards consistently being a viable contribution to a pupil. They are: assess, teach, provide opportunities to mature, and then evaluate the levels of competency. If you are familiar with a bell’s curve graphically speaking, you may also parallel learning to other factors that facilitate learning or the lack of it. On that curve, factors like learning styles, environmental influences, cognitive aptitudes, even family systems and traumas may all effect a person’s integration of skills taught and their readiness for graduation to the 3rd grade. (I am speaking metaphorically) Each growth spurts hurls the pupil over the hump of the curve towards masterful demonstrations of skills learned I the second grade. In any case, it is the teacher’s responsibility to meet the pupil where they are at in order to foster the kind of mastery of content that demonstrates the rite of passage to the third grade. The day when the pupil takes the wheel from the teacher...becoming the proctor.

This should be a proud day. It will be a proud day. It is part of your purpose to encounter people, to teach people, and for people to move on in their journeys upon completion of the lessons you have to provide. How often do we see our children grow and while putting them in a box of childhood memories we soon realize they are young adults now.

It seems that the cycle of maturity is not just a refining that takes place in a pupil, but also the teacher. The parent.

Learning to accept someone where they are at, to grow with them, and to release them once there journey is fulfilled as demonstrated by their skills and application. Then just as meticulously building the bridges towards their next proctor. This all comes back to my opening comments. Celebrate the brilliance of someone else’s mind. Don’t be so linear. Don’t be intimidated by another’s progress. Don’t be stingy on the compliments, Don’t be competitive with folks you were called to pour into. Give them your best as the teacher or the pupil because that’s not only by design what this cycle asks of you. There seems to be a strange fulfillment encrypted in the essence of being the star teacher or star pupil when practiced positionally with awareness.

But this is just the exploration of my random thoughts of how we grow as pupil and teacher. Thank you for reading.

The mystery of learning, but also the rewards of building your unique world by acknowledging your place as well as the place of others in it.

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C.