How do we as human beings learn? How do we acquire wisdom? I mean everybody does it. We don't have what it takes to be who God wants us to be without growing and learning. How do we do this? Some people are all about the classroom and structured learning. Some people like to be thrown into a scenario and learn by doing.
I'm reading this book called "The Divine Mentor" by Wayne Cordeiro and he talked about this very topic. It was perfect timing for me because I had been wondering this for the past couple of weeks.
Wayne says that there are two teachers the life has blessed us with. Kind of. The two teachers are Wisdom and Consequences. Both teachers are very effective and we can learn from both but the difference is in their teaching philosophies. While wisdom is like the your sweet old Kindergarten English teacher that gave you extra M&M’s when you were able to tie your shoes (I speak from experience), Consequences are like the fifth grade gym teacher that played dodge ball and would play with the students so he could hit little fifth grade kids in the head with big rubber balls. In other words wisdom is more nurturing while consequences like tough love.
Wisdom is what you learn without experience from either seeing someone else do it or just plain common sense. Wisdom is making the right decision BEFORE you make the mistake. This is essential if we are ever going to grow and become the person and the people God wants us to be. Wayne says “If you’re going to be the person or the leader you need to be in the twenty-first century, you must find out how to learn from the experience” We can’t just constantly be learning from our mistakes or their will be to much pain for us to function.
Some pain, however, is good. There are some things that you just have to learn by doing. Whether you have to learn it this way because you won’t understand any other way or if you are just unaware of the ramifications, pain is how we learn sometimes. This is the way I’ve been learning lately and it SUCKS! One thing that I am learning right now is financial discipline. And I’m learning because of all my stupid, irresponsible financial decisions that I’ve made in the past are starting to catch up to me. This is the consequence of those decisions.
One does not have to experience every thing that we learn. We can learn from others mistakes and save ourselves a lot of hurt. But sometimes you just have to jump in and learn from your decisions and we can’t be afraid to do that either. It’s a fine line but in the moment if we follow God, we’ll know which path to take.
I'm reading this book called "The Divine Mentor" by Wayne Cordeiro and he talked about this very topic. It was perfect timing for me because I had been wondering this for the past couple of weeks.
Wayne says that there are two teachers the life has blessed us with. Kind of. The two teachers are Wisdom and Consequences. Both teachers are very effective and we can learn from both but the difference is in their teaching philosophies. While wisdom is like the your sweet old Kindergarten English teacher that gave you extra M&M’s when you were able to tie your shoes (I speak from experience), Consequences are like the fifth grade gym teacher that played dodge ball and would play with the students so he could hit little fifth grade kids in the head with big rubber balls. In other words wisdom is more nurturing while consequences like tough love.
Wisdom is what you learn without experience from either seeing someone else do it or just plain common sense. Wisdom is making the right decision BEFORE you make the mistake. This is essential if we are ever going to grow and become the person and the people God wants us to be. Wayne says “If you’re going to be the person or the leader you need to be in the twenty-first century, you must find out how to learn from the experience” We can’t just constantly be learning from our mistakes or their will be to much pain for us to function.
Some pain, however, is good. There are some things that you just have to learn by doing. Whether you have to learn it this way because you won’t understand any other way or if you are just unaware of the ramifications, pain is how we learn sometimes. This is the way I’ve been learning lately and it SUCKS! One thing that I am learning right now is financial discipline. And I’m learning because of all my stupid, irresponsible financial decisions that I’ve made in the past are starting to catch up to me. This is the consequence of those decisions.
One does not have to experience every thing that we learn. We can learn from others mistakes and save ourselves a lot of hurt. But sometimes you just have to jump in and learn from your decisions and we can’t be afraid to do that either. It’s a fine line but in the moment if we follow God, we’ll know which path to take.
