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Originally Posted by Angela  I'm really impressed by the thoughfulness and insight that the people here have exhibited, and am really glad these forums are here.
impaul99 (and daveangeles), have you considered that you yourself are manifesting your own stumbling block? There are quite a few disparate discussions running through these boards, but for some reason you are drawn to and feel compelled to "answer the questions that are already answered by watching the movie "The Secret" for $5 and reading Steve's free posts and spending a bit of time on personal experimentation." Why might you be creating that for yourself?
Angela |
Well, the alternative would simply be to ignore Markus or anyone else who disagree's with anything we say and just keep posting but then that would be like saying that one person deserves my help, while another doesn't.
Now that I write this, I actually think you may be right. Perhaps the whole lesson here for me is simply to realize that I haven't yet figured out a way to choose who I decide to help here. So far I've been willing to offer help to anyone that asks for it or asks a question, even if they don't agree with me I at least try to explain to them what I mean, but perhaps that's my problem.
I know it has helped me in the past in my career to help only those who want my help and are willing to work for it. Similar to my martial arts training, my Sensei doesn't just teach everything to everyone. You have to show up to class, pay your fees, train hard and as you progress he teaches you new things. If you don't put in the effort to try technique #1 or technique #2, there's no way he'll bother teaching #3 or #4. Maybe I need to have a better filtering system for who I choose to reply to, so that I'm not spending all my time writing posts to people who aren't really looking for help, but rather looking for an excuse not to try this out.
To stay on topic with this thread though, how then can we work to improve these forums so that both beginners and more experienced practitioners can both get value from here?