The Dark Side Of The Learning Procedure

Today we will talk about the biggest difficulty I face as a teacher, a procedure I know well because I first faced it for myself and basically this is how the idea of teaching came into my mind.

The title may sound funny, but in this article we are going to talk about one of the deepest realities in the learning procedure.

When we think of learning anything new, let’s say the Greek language, because this is what we are generally talking about, we are dreaming of ourselves speaking it. We create a picture in our mind of grammar and vocabulary, rules to follow, listening conversations or music, or maybe reading books and gaining hidden knowledge.

This is correct. This is a huge part of a learner’s routine and something that, when practiced regularly, it can take us very far.

But as we said before, today we are going to talk about the dark side of the learning process, and one of the biggest difficulties in teacher’s life.

It is so difficult to help someone overcome this part that, especially when it comes to a kid, I feel that my values as a teacher pass through burning fire again and again.

It is very difficult, it causes a lot of frustration and pain. You feel you cannot help someone you truly love and care about.

I have worked more than a decade before going online, I have met and shared time with people from completely different ages and backrounds, I have enjoyed such big range of diversity, that I feel the luckiest person on Earth.

The difficulty was never a matter of resources, age, money or whatever someone may think.

The dark side that lies beneath the whole procedure has always been the Prophecy someone feels they have to fullfill.

The idea we have for ourselves, the picture we build for our future, the secret paradigm we follow and we have no idea we do it, and the thermostat that keeps us down, because we are afraid to overcome the thermostats of the people we love.

I have reached the conclusion that “The idea we have for ouselves is the only property we own”.

With the idea and the picture you have for yourself you can destroy many advantages you have, and on the side you can learn and create more while you have less.

The prophecy someone feels like they must fullfil.

How a prophecy gets stuck in someone’s mind? It comes from our early environment.

Most of the people feel broken. That no matter what they do, they will fail because this is what they do. No matter their inner and outside beauty, the talents and kindness they will always feel something like the 20% — 80% of a human.

Why?

Because they are too fat or too thin. Too poor or quite rich. They are black or they are blond. They are gay or they are women. They are too short or too tall. You can add whatever you want.

My idea for myself until the age of 30, every time I received a compliment about anything, was that the person that told me this didn’t know that I was 80% of a human. I could never reach 100% because I was broken and the person would never know.

Of course, it was normal that the reasults I recieved with this idea of myself were not satisfying.

When we go deep and realise that all these pictures, prophecies and ideas for ourselves are put on us by primitive regimes, expressed by people we love, we can learn anything we desire when we practice it with love and respect towards the procedure.

There is nothing we really desire to do that we can’t do. Learning is more psychology than Grammar and Vocabulary.

Go deep

Create yourself

Then you will see that learning Greek was just an outcome from this brilliant character of yours you have created for yourself.

With Respect,

Efi Asvesti

Founder, Teacher & Copywriter

@ MyGreekTeacher.com

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