*The Discovery Process - The Kjrsos Difference

When someone becomes an instructor, they become the authority. The person you look to for answers.

Human nature and our society have taught us to respect authority. Created a response in us that we give without thinking about it. To follow their instructions, to listen to what they tell us to do. To believe what they tell us.

Being the teacher means coming across as having authority, as having the right answers.

Taking away from the authority figure, the right to say, "I don't know".

Because to say "I don't know" is saying I am not the expert, I am not the one that should be in charge. No, you should not be listening to me.

It seems the more you progress, the less likely that you are to proclaim to the world, "I don't know," or I just haven't figured that out yet, or that confuses me!

I would like to suggest that we go through three basic levels as instructors.

At the beginning in the first level, we are young, untried, unconfirmed in our authority, still willing to look to other instructors for knowledge and help.

In the second level we write the book, we win some prize, we become the expert and we are confirmed in our authority. We are the authority and can't admit that we just don't know or are questioning everything that we are teaching. I mean what right would we have to ask you to pay us each week if we admit how much we don't know?

In the third level we no longer think that we are the expert. Things have changed.

We see so much that is being taught that troubles us, and not only can we say we are still questioning, still asking, we can admit that we are still and always will be in the process of discovery. That this learning experience never ends.

Which means that at any point in time, in the past, now or in the future, what we share, some of it will be wrong, or at the very least need to be reevaluated. Tweaked in a way that we can't appreciate yet.