{"id":1315,"date":"2016-03-27T15:17:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T04:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2016-03-27T15:19:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T04:19:05","slug":"the-disorder-of-multiple-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/?p=1315","title":{"rendered":"The “Disorder” of “Multiple Possibilities”…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was watching a TED Talk late one recent evening, and stumbled across one that truly<\/em> struck home in what may be yet another of my life\u2019s epiphanies. I wonder how many you can be lucky enough to experience? Either way epiphany this idea may very well be for me. It\u2019s the idea of \u201cmultiple potentialities. Why does this resonate so strongly for me? It ties in with something once said to me as a young man barely in my Teens. It ties in with something I\u2019ve struggled with most if not all<\/em> my life.<\/p>\n

I had a teacher who I would say was a cut above the average. By that I mean not only was he genuinely interested in helping young people gain knowledge, he was a keen and shrewd judge of character no doubt developed by his other life experiences prior to coming to teaching. Additionally he recognised and acknowledged the responsibilities that came with his position and influence in the young people he dealt with on a daily basis, often for years, some for over a decade at a time.<\/p>\n

He had noticed that I was in one of my early periods of depression and was in some way reaching out to me: even then he could see that for me, there would be a dark path before reaching the light. Although they didn\u2019t have quite the same level of debilitation accompanying them at that time in my life, such bouts of Depression were clearly noticeable to some then because they spent a lot of time with me. Anyway, he\u2019d come across me in the yard one lunch while he was on yard duty. He could see I was clearly troubled and just basically started chatting in a more casual but candid manner than the standard Teacher to Student. The upshot of which was that while unrecognised by me at that stage, he\u2019d clearly recognised I was confused because already I was experiencing frustration with an education system that wasn\u2019t acknowledging the intellectual being that I was becoming. He could see what I had yet to recognise, and which even later once seen am still just accepting now. The succinctness with which he expressed it still surprises me today.<\/p>\n

It is the following that has stayed with me since that day.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour problem is that you could be anything you set your mind to be<\/em>, and you have no idea what that means for you other than you\u2019re afloat without a compass,\u201d and slight further on, \u201cno single path will ever satisfy you.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The enormity of that statement was lost on me at the time, but the statement itself was not, and for that I\u2019ve always been grateful, although, until now, I\u2019ve never really known why.<\/p>\n

So back to this TED Talk presentation. It\u2019s called Why Some of Us Don’t Have One True Calling.<\/a>. I sat watch just nodding my head with bells ringing like crazy. I still haven\u2019t quite regained my emotional & mental balance two days after, but I\u2019m getting there. This has opened a whole new mental hallway for me. I\u2019m NOT mediocre, I\u2019m NOT flaky, I\u2019m NOT undisciplined (mostly), I\u2019m just too interested in too many things and too good at a lot of them. I\u2019m NOT a genius, but I\u2019m very damn good at most things I put my mind & hands too! It just seems I\u2019m the last to see this in me.<\/p>\n

Other than the above mentioned discussion, if your interested or wondering more, Start Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was watching a TED Talk late one recent evening, and stumbled across one that truly struck home in what may be yet another of my life\u2019s epiphanies. I wonder how many you can be lucky enough to experience? Either way epiphany this idea may very well be for me. It\u2019s the idea of \u201cmultiple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,11,24,22,8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression","category-dreams","category-goals","category-health","category-philosophy","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m0rg0th.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}