" Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do"- John R. Wooden
Well it has been awhile since i have done a Mindfulness Monday, but since I'm back I think it's time to analyze some awesome and inspiring quotes. It is really fun to do this on Mondays and I can't for the quotes that we could possibly get, but for now let us focus on the one of today. So, knowing me, every time I see an awesome quote, I always say that "this quote is one my top ones" and this quote is just that. When I first read it I sort of the meaning behind it, but the more I read it, the more I understood it and the more I become to like it. From what I read this quote seems to say that when there are things feel can't do, do not let that get in the way of all the other things you can possibly do. Honestly I really like this because of the fact that its meaning is easy to understand and it's simple. This quotes meaning is quite powerful in the sense that it can really wake someone up from their state of mind that they can't do things because they are either afraid, nervous, or simply because it's too hard. When seeing this quote, that person with that state of mind will maybe wake up completely to the point where they realize that have that mentality is bad and progress can't proceed because there are letting something they feel they cannot do get to their heads. To be honest, I sometimes have this mentality and it does really bother me that it stays in my mind for quite awhile. However, I know if I ponder on the matter I will get sidetracked and I will lose sight of what I can do. Letting this happen is quite bad because this mentality gets you into a state of weakness, but eventually this can be turned around and it is simply seeing a quote like this So now that I have analyzed the quote, it is time to connect it with the IB Learner Profile. So, looking back at the profile it seems that this quote is associated with being knowledgeable, reflective, thinker and maybe even risk-taker. So when I incorporate these component of the profile I like to connect being knowledgeable and being reflective together because I feel that they go hand-in-hand. Knowing that, the reason why I say that this quote can associate with being knowledgeable and reflective is because when you find out there things that you can't do, you begin to think about why you can't. In this process of thinking, there is something I like to call is that "there is a war being fought in your mind in making a decision". To clarify, you think and begin to struggle upon why you can't do certain things and eventually having this mentality will deprive us from what we can. However, once you get out of that state of mind, everything become clearer and you begin to see all the things that you can in replacement with what you can't. This is why it seems to connect well with being reflective, knowledgeable, and I forgot to mention being a thinker since when you are thinking on how to solve this predicament and eventually you think, reflect, and new knowledge is acquired. As for the last one, risk-taker, this can follow under this if you manage to overcome that feeling of not being able to do what you can't. Sometimes there are things in life that we can't do simply because we don't know anything of it or it is simply out of fear. However, when you overcome this, you take the risk of doing what you feel you can't to see if you actually can't. At the moment, you simply broke the barrier in which even though you felt you couldn't do it before you still tried and that is all that matters because you don't want this to keep bothering you and you want to get rid of this feeling. Well that is it for this week's quote and I say that this quote was a good one. Until next time, I'll see you then.
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