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| Sep 03, 2006 6:43 am |
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re: re: re: re: Does TS encourage anyone to learn? Is it possible to change your mind? |
John Stephen Veitch
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Not a comment on the wrong thread at all James.
"It is great to compose a coherently flowing series of paragraphs to make whatever point, but ...
What does it accomplish ?"
It is possible for everyone to make progress each at his or her own speed and each in his or her own way by PARTICIPATING in these conversations. We learn when we DO SOMETHING. When I undertake to help someone, and if I need to do some research and if it takes an hour or two, I am the one who benefits first and foremost. I clarify what I think and help to build my own understanding and expertise.
So inside yourself every time you do this YOU BECOME whatever it is you've chosen to become. You choose what you are interested in, what conversations to join, when to participate and when to leave. You decide what is important, so cumulatively you decide what you know and where your ignorance lies.
If the person you respond to, or anybody else, benefits of not is not in your hands. You placed your input into the conversation. What other people make of that is entirely up to them. Mostly as you all probably know, you write your heart out and NOBODY bothers to respond. Such is the way of the world.
There is clear evidence in a remarkably short time, three years, that those who have regularly been active on Ryze have changed in significant ways. I'd say they are more confident about what they know, are better aware about what they don't and feel no need to be an expert about everything. If they have written regular posts, the quality of those posts has improved. You get better at whatever you practice.
You said James, that you continue to be amazed that other people often assume that they know what you think. As you so clearly said, when you write to the conversations on Ryze, that act of writing is often defining for yourself what you think. In my own case, even as I write now, I'm surprised at the clarity of what I'm thinking. I just hope that the words on this page give some idea of that clarity.
We do today what it's possible to do today. A lot or a little. Over 10 years, a tiny span of time in a modern human life, it's possible to make over your entire education online. Ryze is one way to do that, but most of us are also in specialist lists, that cater to our own interests. Several of us have created our own lists, wiki, websites or Ryze networks to cater for our own specialist interests. Who knows where this will lead? None of us. But I am sure that it changes the world in a remarkable way, and what is happening here is far more important than the "war on terror" and more important than Internet marketing, and is largely hidden from public awareness. It's certainly not in the news.
Regards
John
John S Veitch
Adapt to Experience - http://www.ate.co.nz/
Innovation Network - http://veech-network.ryze.com/Private Reply to John Stephen Veitch (new win) |
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