If…

Those who are most certain, are least likely.

• I believe every individual should strive to learn.
• I believe every individual should strive to be serious.
• To learn is to work to understand, by seeking knowledge and by listening well.
• To be serious is to be productively apprehensive.
• To be serious is to be essential.
• To be aware is to be informed; and unconvinced.
• I believe every learner has a responsibility to be aware.
• And I believe every learner has a responsibility to both Excellence and Truth.
• These responsibilities do not and should not keep the learner from exploring interests and possibilities.
• That said, a serious learner should work to differentiate between Reality (i.e. consensus fact) and Possibility posing as fact (i.e. harmonious conjecture).
• I believe a serious learner should strive to create or produce tangible results.
• The more fully a result fulfills its purpose and/or potential, the more tangible it becomes.
• Though individual awareness is largely intangible, I believe it is a necessary first step to tangible results.
• And I believe Awareness of Reality is a necessary first step to making change for the Good.
• If Awareness of Reality does not beget anger, you do not understand Reality.
• To study only interests and possibilities, substantial or not, is comfortable; irresponsible; incomplete.
• I often ask myself the prefaced question, “I am only one person – what can I do?”
• Awareness.

If there is a Truth, those who are most certain they have it figured out, are least likely to be correct.

• Perhaps I ignore my opportunity to be a learner because I am too busy being in over my head.
• Perhaps I ignore my opportunity to be serious because I am too busy not keeping up.
• Perhaps as a learner the same could be said (that I am too busy) for Awareness, Reality, Excellence, or Truth.
• Not only is individual awareness largely intangible, I am largely intangible.
• I am working to produce more tangible results.
• I am working to fulfill an as-yet-unidentified purpose.
• Uncontrolled anger, though at times instinctive, is effort ill-spent.
• Justification, though at times instinctive, is effort ill-spent.
• Justification is not Justice.
• It is difficult to explain why and how Good requires anger.
• Substantial is not essential.
• Comfortable is incomplete.
• When I focus on interests and possibilities, I am balancing; and I am frustrating progress.
• I often ask myself the prefaced question, “I am only one person – what can I do?”
• Know it is not my best effort.

If there is a Way, those who are most certain they know it, are most likely to get lost.