The Brink

…how to have patience with this blog…

This blog is about finding the best ways to learn and to express yourself and to deal with various people situations – effortlessly.  Insight is best when arrived at and not when given, so although there may be many insights offered in the conversations with Frank, room is left for your own insights and new ways of doing and being. 

How much effort do you put into eating a piece of cake?

When you have a piece of cake you don’t admire the fact that it is made of flower, sugar, eggs and what you… As a matter of fact most people don’t even care what cake is made of or how it is baked.  Sure, people interested in baking cake would wonder about that, but the rest of us just want to enjoy what we are having.  In the same way I’ll be sharing pieces of which the ingredients and creation process is not important.  Each conversation aims at providing an experience, not an analysis or deconstruction of philosophies, theories and models.  Sure, these are shared and you are welcome to go delve deeper into them if you want to.  The main purpose of sharing them is as a part of the process of arriving at a cusp – a crucial insight, an aha!

Two important points:

• The events and characters I refer to are fictional, but they may be inspired by reality, questions I was asked by someone, or some topical discussion.
•  Analogy and metaphor is the worst scientific method.  My purpose with them is to clarify a point or idea.

At times people may find the language technical and abstract.  My challenge to you is to become familiar with the concepts, to learn the names of nuances, to discover the most amazing universe of ideas and to become artful in both understanding the world and expressing yourself.  That includes emotions.  On the other hand, be assured that at some point or the other I will give plain language explanations of the complex ideas in the form of stories, examples, anecdotes, metaphors or question-and-answer dialogue.  And let me add, I still have much to learn myself, so please share your experience.

A piece of cake? 

Let me use another analogy.  When you give a man a fish he has food for a day.  Actually just one meal, but let’s role with it… If you teach him ho to catch fish, he has food for a lifetime.  People are resourceful things so this man’s neighbours quickly learned how to catch fish too and one of them even started a tackle factory.  Soon the natural resource was depleted and a much bigger community faces famine.  If the man was taught to farm with fish…  hmmm.

If you are interested in bringing people to the realisation to farm with ‘fish’, this blog is yours to read and respond to.  If you want fish, go watch television.

Anyone can absorb information and experience and become knowledgeable. Only when knowledge is shared is it useful.  When many people share and shape and refine it, it becomes wisdom. 

This is my invitation to you – to add your insights to this blog.