This reminds me of the book The mind illuminated. When I started reading it I found it fascinating how well it described my own experiences from mediations. But when I got to later chapters I got to the point when I didn’t have direct experience with what was described there and when trying to follow the instructions there I got completely lost in retrospect, they were totally misleading to me back then. Sazen.
The only cure I later found was to only read further when I felt I made a major progress and to read only as long as I had a direct experience with what was described there. It was still helpful as validation and it gave me some important context, but the main learnings had to come from my own explorations.
Not sure if this approach is fully generalizable to everyone’s learning, but it is almost always the case for me when learning a new skill.
This reminds me of the book The mind illuminated. When I started reading it I found it fascinating how well it described my own experiences from mediations. But when I got to later chapters I got to the point when I didn’t have direct experience with what was described there and when trying to follow the instructions there I got completely lost in retrospect, they were totally misleading to me back then. Sazen.
The only cure I later found was to only read further when I felt I made a major progress and to read only as long as I had a direct experience with what was described there. It was still helpful as validation and it gave me some important context, but the main learnings had to come from my own explorations.
Not sure if this approach is fully generalizable to everyone’s learning, but it is almost always the case for me when learning a new skill.