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Time once again for some vocab from the last couple of weeks. Here’s some of the topics covered recently:
- Naive Mind (Beginner’s Mind):The Naive Mind a.k.a. the Beginner’s mind is a state of openness. Instead of pre-filtering the data coming in, you accept it all - usually intending to analyze it later. Resorting to the beginner’s mind can have a huge impact on finding information that had been missed, but the beginner’s mind also has the rather obvious flaw of not being ideally suited towards getting things done. If you’re so busy just experiencing and noticing everything in its entirety, it is difficult to actually do anything
- Newbie Suit: This is a concept where you pattern yourself after a newbie or beginner, in a way of emulating the Beginner’s Mind (See above). While this takes skill to learn and apply to best advantage, being able to step back and see beyond your normal day-to-day mental filters (see below) can be a real advantage
- Mental Filters: In our day-to-day mental process, it is essential that the world be reduced to certain patterns so that we can quickly and efficiently handle daily events and so on. As such, we learn to look at things in much the same way over and over. This presents the opposite scenario of the Beginner’s Mind above: We sacrifice flexibility and awareness for outright power and efficiency.
- Escape Velocity: Literally “The speed necessary to escape the gravity of a massive bodyThe speed necessary to escape the gravity of a massive body“, I use it to mean the mental/emotional momentum needed to move you where you wish to go. This is not an absolute, as each of us have different challenges, needs, requirements, and goals. Furthermore, as escape velocity is reached in one matter, you find that you’ve gotten closer to escape velocity in another facet of your life.
