entering, the third life means being prepared to open…
Page 180 entering, the third life means being prepared to open yourself up to new experiences, and new learning, which, inevitably inevitably brings with it feelings of incompetence. Something to bear in mind when you're bobbing about on the sea of uncertainty as you go through the process of transition. In order to learn, you have to access your ignorance, not your competence.
— from Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit) · Changing gear by hall and stokes
In the book
Sometimes the move is to reinvent yourself wholesale, the way the best performers refuse to coast on what already works. But all of it demands the most uncomfortable thing of all: to learn anything truly new, you must access your ignorance rather than your competence, and be willing to feel like a clumsy beginner again. [Here is the place for my own turbulence — write in, or let me tell you, about a belief or a way of doing things I had to unlearn late, and how hard it was to admit the old way no longer served.] — Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)