When we work, commute, live our daily lives, we have momentum.
Conditioning of the past. A rolling view of reality. One day built on the next. We stand on a freight train, looking out at the landscape.
When we decide we want to shift something in our health, movement or nutritional journey, we attempt to understand the nuts and bolts. We intellectually want to “know” what we are getting into, is it worth the “investment” and how long will it take? We google, check reviews, then search some more.
The thing is though, to understand the ins and outs of a new direction is like trying to read the ENTIRE sign on a big bill-board from the freight train. Not just the headline, but even the terms and conditions at the bottom of the sign.
We are moving so fast, our attention is now so valuable, that really there is little hope.
So, we are left with one option to create change: leap first in the general direction we want, learn later. Treat the shift as an experiment and don’t attempt to fully understand it early on.
Rather, commit to the full immersion, sign up, connect with the experience and then understand it intellectually.
Only when we immerse in an experience, when we live and breath it: a full hands-on program, a retreat, a 6 month commitment, can we truly learn and understand the details of what we are attempting to learn.
The focus can be complete on the new task, the freight train has slowed enough to read the sign.
Experiential based learning is a great tool for training, exercise, sport and probably everything else.
