Three Things to Kickstart the Illusion Inside Your Head: A Potential

Have you ever thought that having the materials accessible to you makes anything others do possible for you to replicate too?

When I was younger, I thought that if I had the things sufficient to create something — for instance, a recipe — then I could have the exact outcome just like how I saw others do it.

Sounds like I completely discarded skills, though didn’t I? But, it’s a relief I thought like a normal child. Instead of being proactive about things, most of us tend to be reactive about circumstances. (Reference to The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey) This happened to me years ago in my example of replicating a recipe.

I would say the same goes for learning that is hindered by inaccessibility to information. Sometimes, even then when it was dormant, my motivation was the first compelling impulse to kickstart my learning journey on something that interested me.

Do you get that same feeling of being buzzed up when you have the intense desire to learn about plenty of things or one specific thing in great depth? (that curiosity is powerful.) We even find it difficult to control impulses — curiosity included.

So I began to think, that if it takes only insatiable curiosity to power through the door of knowledge and use learned material as fodder for growth…

Do you realize how close you are to learning anything at a given time?

Just like then, if I could just have access to the right information that I needed, just reading and comprehending a topic with pure curiosity, I believed I could work things out.

But, what I found out now that I’m older is that resources are nothing without the intention to learn. If you don’t have the drive to learn, it would be meaningless to have references even when it was within reach. It’s like fishing but you don’t have bait. You hope or wait for a fish to come and get disappointed that nothing happens.

It’s amazing to some degree, how a person would grab to reach an illusion. For the person, we are to bear in mind that it’s their potential at stake. Only then, to get there (for that potential to take form) is to take a risk and unlock knowledge through our motivation to learn. In the same way that it applies to fishing.

The case mostly, even with our hunger for knowledge and accessibility to preferred resources — there is another limiting factor that persists with obtaining learned material. It’s just time, nothing fancy.

Let’s say you’re a college student. You swore to yourself the next time exam day comes, you would get that A or whatever because maybe you found your scores too low on the recent exam. But, a few weeks pass and exam day is right around the corner again. You don’t have a choice because there was not enough time to get requirements done and study for the test so you sit and answer the questions on the exam even when you dreaded it because you weren’t prepared and unfortunately for you, it’s a cycle. Rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat. That’s what we call overestimation bias or overconfidence in psychology, by the way. I like cognitive distortions. Just when you thought you could trust yourself, then it’s your mind fooling you anyway.

As it turns out, time is much more powerful than all the other things I mentioned that I said were powerful because, without it, none of those would work out.

Imagine this: to obtain knowledge, there must be curiosity or desire to learn. Similarly, there must also be enough resources to satisfy that desire. Otherwise, what’s the point of it right? But, take time in the equation. If there’s too much time on your hands, everything seems fine so old pal, procrastination pats you in the back. Too little of the available time, and everything and everyone is stressed out. Deadlines. Piles of them. Hair loss. Piles of them, too. Seems like a terrible disaster.

To conclude, anything that is too much or too little will always be a hindrance to achieving our goals. Anything in life could be compared using the same principle of too much and too little. If a person could balance time with having the right resources and the right mindset, they could go a long way from here.