Don’t Feel Bad About Beginning At Step Zero
Posted by Cameron Stein in Uncategorized, tags: compound stock earnings, education, learning, level zero, motivational, PSYCHOLOGY, self help, self improvement, starting at 0, Uncategorized“There is now a level 0.”
This may be your kids’ favorite quote from Kung Fu Panda the movie. If not, it is surely in the top ten. There was much hilarity throughout the audience when Po was dropped right smack in the middle of the advanced training arena. Everyone in the audience found themselves shaking their heads at the poor panda bear who felt the need to learn kung fu.
The point of this scene is that whenever we learn a new skill, whether it be taking up the violin, restoring an antique piece of furniture or mastering karate, we all start at ground zero. The sooner it hits us that is an okay state to be in the better off we are.
Learn from your Children
We learn better as kids than we do as adults because kids know that it is perfectly okay to start from step zero. When we are kids, the people around us expect us to know nothing when learning something brand new. We’re just kids. People offer us encouragement and support that helps us thrive in learning anything new. We eventually master the new skill and one day may teach others what we know.
When we grow up we are no longer comfortable with not knowing and beginning at the beginning is shameful to us. This is because by this time we have absorbed many skill sets. No matter what it is we undertake we are expected to have a basic foundation from which to work.
We are expected to know what we are doing. This is far from fair, but whoever told you the world was fair was wrong.
It is Your attitude that needs a Tweak, not theirs
When you become an adult, you have two choices. You can choose to allow embarrassment over starting from the very beginning, stepping out into the arena with no appreciable skills to speak of, hold you back, or you can learn to brush off the inevitable snickers and go ahead and realize your dreams.
Many weeks ago, a friend of mine suggested that I take a look at the brochure his karate school gave out as he was very taken with his class. He started learning karate as an adult and strongly recommended the program he was involved in. I read over the brochure and fully understood why he was so upbeat on this particular program. There were no divisions in the class either by age or rank. All the students whether six year old beginners or fifty year olds with black belts were in it together. The more experienced class members helped the less experienced, but there was absolutely no segregation. This model leads to no one feeling any shame at beginning at the very beginning.
There will always be someone to guffaw loudly as you ineptly begin something new. That is the way some people are. Far more important are the ones that offer encouraging words and support and lend you their advice and expertise if you are not too embarrassed to ask them for it.
Those people started at step one too.
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