Keep the Idea at Bay

Week 32

Keep the Idea at Bay

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            1.   I’ve found that it’s easy to claim knowledge for myself

                  that I don’t truly have.

            2.   To expose this falsehood, all I have to do is try to

                  explain it to someone and find I’m all thumbs.

            3.   It’s hard for some of us to say, “I don’t know.”

            4.   Oddly, though, I can say I don’t know, start to talk

                  about a subject and find I’m fluent and in command of  

                  it.

            5.   You too? Try declaring yourself in a neutral zone—one of

                  not knowing---with the likelihood of learning before you.

            6.   By simply suspending, naming and holding an idea at

                  bay, we give ourselves space and time to get friendly

                  with it.

            7.   When you’re friendly, it’s much easier to be at home with

                  that idea.

Suspending

What don’t

I know

that I

claim to know?

What an

intimidating

task!

My body

is limp

or is it

tense?

Right now

I don’t know.

But I’ll

suspend

and notice:

it’s on alert—

neither limp

nor tense—

wanting

to know.

It was

at least

easier then—

a better thought,

even—

not claiming

to know.

© 2012 Allan Cox, Allan Cox & Associates Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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