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“It is clear Charles, you know where you are going, and knowledge is the fuel.”\u00a0\u00a0 a fellow Woolly<\/p>\n
Have you ever heard of the Johari window?\u00a0 Here’s a graphic that illustrates it.\u00a0 The white or open box represents common information shared between yourself and others who know you. The reddish brown box contains the stuff of which you are aware, but have shared with no one.\u00a0 The third box is the one I’m interested in here, the green box.\u00a0 It contains material not known to you, but known to others.\u00a0 This is information to which you are blind for one reason or another, yet is apparent to at least one other.<\/p>\n
This comment from a Woolly falls in the blind box for me.\u00a0 Or maybe not.\u00a0 A bit hard to tell.<\/p>\n
It did make me reflect.\u00a0 If someone else thinks where I’m going is clear, why would they think that?\u00a0 Do I really know where I’m going?\u00a0 Why is knowledge the fuel?<\/p>\n
Here’s what came to me, after rolling the idea around for a week or so.<\/p>\n
Long ago, perhaps in adolescence, the notion of a liberal arts education became central to my personal project.\u00a0 How did it get there? It may have been my parents, could have been teachers, might even have been a minister, perhaps all of these plus things I read. The notion of a broad and deep education in the humanities, an education that began at least by the time of college.\u00a0 There exposure to the great ideas, to the breadth of the human experience, to literature, art, music, theatre would open up a way of perception.\u00a0 Perception that would inform life, even create a life.<\/p>\n
There’s a lot more to this, but I’m tired.\u00a0 Later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Imbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Cold Moon “It is clear Charles, you know where you are going, and knowledge is the fuel.”\u00a0\u00a0 a fellow Woolly Have you ever heard of the Johari window?\u00a0 Here’s a graphic that illustrates it.\u00a0 The white or open box represents common information shared between yourself and others who know you. The reddish brown … Continue reading Not Known To Self<\/span>