Some may think that the article is intended for teachers, but against the provision, the article is intended for all of us. Simply because we all teach in real life. We teach through our positive or negative attitude, our generosity or emotional contraction, our truth or lies.
We are both teachers and students by offering lessons with our way of life, our attitude... to pain, to success, to failure.... The more we pay attention to life's lessons the greater teachers we become. If we are smart enough we let life be our teacher to offer us some precious lessons. Unless our ego wants to take these lessons through hard ways...
We are teachers for our children, our friends, our family, but mainly for ourselves. Realistically, we can teach nothing without self knowledge. We must love ourselves by being open to absorb new knowledge in every situation and let us teach ourselves how we absorb new knowledge in every situation initially and generate that way the foreseeable goal of new knowledge. "How" is more powerful and productive than "what"!
So, new knowledge becomes a life-central goal. Aristotle states that the prime rule in teaching process is «to learn how we learn», meaning to see first of all how our mind is structured... limited, permissive, negative... (e.g. learning by doing)
But how we approach knowledge and how this method is adopted by both us and others? The key approach is to take advantage from cultivating some valuable skills. And as we are talking about skills, we understand without excuses, we have to defeat mental barriers and inhibitions by our hard effort and dedication to new learning. And as we are aligned to this process we are a priori receptive to let them inhabit in our heart! When you try hard, you learn by heart!
So, talking about skills of amazing teachers:
Listening
The ability to listen carefully and thoroughly to connect, to build bridges and to create engagement by offering value to both sides. Understanding how people see things requires deep listening. Listening creates reflection and personal reaction in every situation we face can usually offer a lesson, a new way of teaching in action later. Most importantly, understanding becomes the real mind-bridge that connects us with past, present and future.
Mental interaction
Curiosity is NOT enough. It’ s a state where the magical things happen. By putting ourselves in another person’s shoes, we powerfully challenge our emotional intelligence. We become aware of others feelings, emotions, thoughts, reactions. Dealing attentively what has been accumulated in this narrow space, means understanding, comprehension, acceptance, empathy, means mostly human emotions, wholeheartedly interaction. In simple words, we understand, comprehend, accept and empathize with human emotions, as we put our heart in the active learning and teaching process.
Learning
We always seek for new learning opportunities. Paying attention to what others have to say means a lot. Imagine that every person we meet is a book and every time we fail to learn from his free given wisdom, we reject or postpone the learning process eventually.
Margins
The map is not the territory … also the mind is unlimited. So, let’s break new ground. Begin to explore your and others mind. Allow yourself to expand the limits of your small mental box, leave behind the permissive world you live in and become the new mental citizen of a no-limits world, where magical things define your life. Magical things directly relate to creativity, differentiation and exploration.
Love
If you allow love to flow as blood in your veins, you contribute the most valuable element of our human existence. If we love ourselves we can love others and then we can inspire them, motivate them and lead them towards self actualization. As they follow our own path to freedom (knowledge = freedom), they become more independent, more secure in their knowledge. They want more, while they become “more”!
When you are becoming “more,” the levels of self actualization increase and ... that’s the leadership level!
Devotion
The time has nothing to do with things we value most. Being present is so valuable as our existence, because it’s the only time we feel alive! Authenticity means to stand closer to our heart and out life-purpose by fulfilling our dreams. When we do what we love most we feel wonderful every we give ourselves deeply in it. The aura of a devoted man is like an attractive mental trap you allow yourself to get in and stay without second thought. We all love to be close to people that make us become more! it is the part of life that defeats boredom. And in practice... as Jim Rohn said: « You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid but for the value you bring to the hour». This hour has the name of our heart...
When you try hard, you learn by heart!
As you become more and more acquainted with discovering yourself, through self confidence, empathy and -above all- love, you align with greatness! You can reach and overstep that way the point of self awareness, the limit of uniqueness, the edge of magic! By following this path, you can reach human perfection.
