01. MY THREE POSITIVES.
1. I'm in demand, but I have more things to do than I can handle.
2. The rain washes away the dust and dirt from the streets, the air has cleared.
3. 3D printer—I remember my design skills from college.
02. MY THOUGHTS AND DISCOVERIES.
There's a certain difficulty in adjusting the load.
Let's say we want to build muscle in our arm using a dumbbell. What weight should the dumbbell be, and how many reps and sets should we do?
If we're working from a goal, the load should be such that the body adapts to it. One extreme is too much weight, which will break your arm; the other is too little, which won't result in muscle growth. There could also be deadlines and goals, like building muscle in a month so you can lift a dumbbell ten times.
A straightforward approach is to take a ready-made program, like 100 push-ups a month, follow it, but if it doesn't suit a specific person, quit or don't see any results.
Personally, I tried a push-up program like this. The first few days were fine, then it was bearable, but then you couldn't do the required number of push-ups and quit completely, developing feelings of guilt and self-doubt. Instead, you could continue at a slower pace, but regularly.
Of course, you could say the program is silly, but it's more logical to say it didn't work for me, but it might work for someone else.
It's a similar situation with learning. Some people find it easier to absorb the required amount of information, while others find it more difficult. There's a certain range of abilities; if you meet it, you fit into the program. And a lot depends on the student's effort. It's the sum of their current learning abilities and their efforts to develop.
There's a learning barrier that can be difficult to overcome. A good example is computers or mathematics. No matter how hard you try, you hit a wall—I don't understand your computers. Interestingly, even seasoned programmers experience this, but not at the level of working with a text editor, but at the level of more complex things, like the machine code barrier, when you need to change your thinking, think like a processor.
And there's a curriculum, according to which students must cover a portion of the material and pass exams. The curriculum can't be tailored to everyone; it's important to find a certain corridor where the right people fit. And those who don't fit, they leave.
If someone doesn't want to learn and won't push themselves to overcome this barrier, what should they do in an educational institution?
But that's an extreme case. What if someone wants to learn, but not fully, without complex terms and formulas, so that it's popular and understandable, and they can achieve greater results with less effort? This may raise questions about the curriculum and the method of presenting the material.
Another example: my youngest child is taking history at school, using the new curriculum, and he's struggling with the subject. His parents and grandmother decided to help and encountered the same barrier. When we were growing up, history was taught differently, presented in a way that was engaging and understandable. Now, it's more of a set of facts to memorize, difficult to memorize and connect in your head, resulting in a loss of interest in the subject and poor grades. Neither his parents nor his grandmother mastered the curriculum and were only able to help him memorize. The downside is that the child has developed a dislike for history and the learning process.
The opposite situation also exists: if you provide too little material, effectiveness suffers, and interest in learning also disappears. And finding a universal solution is difficult or impossible. And there are also various situations where people drop out of school, and then it's even more difficult to fit in.
Of course, you could say that those who don't fit in are irrelevant; you can avoid them; they're not like that, they'll find a school that suits them. But imagine your child doesn't fit into the school system and immediately needs to be transferred to another school, one for special needs children?
And then there's the conflict with someone at school, for example, the subject teacher, which kills the student's motivation.
What do they usually do?
Parents help their children with the material themselves or hire tutors (what about tutoring at Open Yoga? Maybe someone is willing to pay, and someone else is willing to earn money?), an excellent student is given the responsibility of a failing student (possibly backfiring), elective classes, a class with advanced study is transferred to a simpler class – maybe two streams are needed, differing in difficulty or in the length of the curriculum (the workload on the teachers)...
03. MY YOGA INSPIRATION FOR THE WEEK.
Starting in the morning
04. MY GRATITUDE AND PRAISE.
To the teachers
05. I WANT TO PRAISE MYSELF.
I think I'm doing well.
06. PERSONAL YOGA PRACTICE FOR THE WEEK.*
Yoga every day - Hatha, Kriya, Mantra, Pranayama
07. DIFFICULTIES IN LEARNING.*
No time