Dooley Noted: 6/1/2014
I am the challenging attendee at a seminar.
I will not nod my head in vigorous approval because a movement deity states something smart.
I will analyze, test, experience, and scrutinize.
And these features are why most people hire me as their teacher or doctor.
People want to take a seminar I teach. But they may not want to attend one with me.
I know one big truth.
We are all still students. And I am usually an unpopular one.
I always have been unpopular, starting in childhood and contributing into my third decade of life. I see value in thinking for myself – and that alone can leave a person, well, standing alone.
It’s exhilarating to think for oneself.
To scrutinize IS to open the mind, though. To scrutinize, one must first accept the challenge of a hypothesis and test it. To scrutinize is to simply test that idea, whatever the outcomes derived.
While I love the quotes and movement work of great people like Cook, McGill, and Laynee, these people will openly admit they are still learning – and still testing hypotheses.
Take the two cents. But please, test things for yourself and see that people don’t always agree.
It doesn’t make anyone wrong or right. It simply shows that people are in the midst of testing ideas.
Test other people’s ideas, if you choose. You don’t have to be afraid to scrutinize popular ideas. You may even develop your own two cents worthy of testing.
As always, it’s your call.
– Dr. Kathy Dooley