If you are your own teacher, you would do especially well to remember when you were young. Every time you access a memory from childhood in such a way that you re-enact your feelings and perceptions from that stage of your life, you reawaken two things.

1. For one, you reinforce your ability to relate to young people who are currently living through that stage for the first time.
2. Secondly, you revitalise the very powerful abilities you had when you were young - that you subsequently lost as you matured.

Sure. When you were young, you could do things you can hardly imagine as you get older. What? What could I do when was young, that I cannot do now? Well, for one thing you could use your imagination quite well. But more than this, you could learn at a much higher rate than now. But perhaps the most important ability you had that is usually lost as one matures is the ability to be intuitive. That's right. Children know things intuitively - without factual, analytical, information.

As we learned in the lesson on Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny, early humankind was in a stage for the entire human race just like early childhood is a stage for one person. But haven't you forgotten most of the things you had the ability to know as a child? This is how it goes. Forgetting always follows stages of brilliance. This is a protection. Our conscious minds could not handle the enormity of the intelligence of a three year old - nor the large secrets we knew when man was in its infancy.

So remember this: it is good to forget.

A teacher should always provide for a period of forgetting within the learning process. Let newly learned lessons fade away, then come back to them another day and you will find them clarified. During the night, lessons you are trying to learn have light shed on them. Just like the elves that work on the cobblers' shoes overnight in the fairy tale, ideas you are working on get refined when you let go of them.

 

Masters of Transformation

These 3 masters transformed our analytical thinking. All three came up with very intellectual view of the world. Darwin explained EVOLUTION as a random, physical mechanism. Descartes explained man's EXISTENCE as if made possible by his own thought. And Newton is the father of Mechanics - the explanation of all NATURE as a machine!

TASK: Open all three short biographies of Darwin, DesCartes, and Newton. Keep them open.
Write 3 Who Am I? quiz questions in reMember Mate® about these three fellows in one shot.

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