Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Sixty-Eight, Dateline 9-25-2018
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“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”
Good afternoon crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-sixty-eight of Operation Achieve Anything. The cold I was complaining about yesterday is still in effect. I’m still not entirely sure if I’m actually sick or is this is a psychosomatic effort from my body to trick me into getting more sleep. I’m kind of leaning toward the latter because aside from the morning sniffles and coughs I don’t really feel all that bad. Either way, I’ve gotten more sleep over the past two days than I have the past two weeks combined.
Last night was a good one where as soon as I was done with my daily obligates I took some night time cold meds with the plan to work on some of the more brainless behind-the-scenes tasks while waiting for the NyQuil drunkenness to kick in. Other than my rambling social media post, that you may notice from time to time, I am so out of practice when it comes to writing with a buzz that as soon as I felt myself getting loopy, I gave up and head off to bed.
I then woke up twelve hours later and here we are.
This doesn’t really have all that much to do with today’s assignment, but I just wanted to share because I do think last night was the break that I’ve been claiming to need going back at least a couple of months. The actual assignment was to share what time of learner I am, meaning what does it take to motivate me to learn something new. For example, do I only look toward education at low points in my life in hopes that obtaining a new skill may open brand new doors, or do I just get inspired when I feel that I’ve reached the peak of my abilities and need to learn to move up to the next experience level.
As someone whose learning disabilities weren’t addressed during school with no mentors or role models point me in any direction, I’m pretty much self-taught when it comes to everything that I do and am always looking for opportunities to learn. This might be why of all of my former entertainment-based interests the documentary genre is the only one to make it out of my “everything sucks” phase completely unscathed. I don’t even care if the information is accurate or accepted as fact, I like to watch documentaries on all topics just to be aware of what’s out there.
I don’t have to believe everything that I watch, but I do have to believe that there are people out there who do. Just like with my past interest in self-help audiobooks that I used to listen to in an effort to improve my character development by the right vs. wrong characteristics that the book was trying to solve. For example, if I was to listen to a book about how to be more assertive, not only would I get information on how assertive characters may act but the before examples might also inform me as to what a non-assertive character might do.
Other than my constant efforts to hone my craft, whether or not it shows on the page, I’ve also been a huge fan of learning in general and even before there were tons of affordable one-off online courses for almost any topic, I would almost always be working my way through some sort of classroom in a book. So to fulfill the task from yesterday, as a person who’s self-taught at everything, I love to learn regardless of my mood or whatever else is taking place in my life. I feel that education is my escape from the mundane as it opens my options to escape the boredom of an unfulfilled life.
As for today’s assignment, I’m now supposed to examine my thoughts on knowledge in general by sharing what it really means to me. I’m also supposed to create an artistic rendition of the vision that the concept of knowledge brings to the front of my mind. Of course, you’ll have to wait for tomorrow’s post to see what I manage to come up with. Until then, it’s now time for me to wrap this one up by saying, good day and good luck to you and all of your projects.
Talk to you soon.
Sincerely,
The Wicker Breaker
P.S. Below are links to my novel, which I plan to promote as part of Operation Achieve Anything, as well as a link to where you can buy the book that is providing the structure to this project in case you would like to purchase it in order to play along.
