On Blogging and Knowing

So I've decided to try this blogging thing. There was a time when I could be quite wordy in print, however, now that the prospect of blogging is upon me I find myself quite unaware of what to write about. Though it is not necessary, perhaps, to enforce any agenda on myself and my writing, by beginning this I willingly put one upon myself. You see, I wanted to begin blogging as a way of improving myself. By writing or typing these things, they become more real, no longer brief flashes of electrical current in my mind, but something that is now out in the world; something that bears witness to me and my actions; something I must reckon with. In my pursuit to improve upon myself, then, I am structuring into my experience a sense of accountability; something that I think we all need.

This is also an attempt to know more deeply. Many of the ideas I present here are but origins that I hope to develop into mature thoughts through the very process of making them known- to others and to myself. As I reflect, then, on some of the new things I have learned in the last couple of months even (which is plenty as I'll go into more detail in a future blog) I am amazed at the concept of knowing. It seems there are different levels to knowing. I recently read in one of Robert Kiyosaki's "Rick Dad, Poor Dad" books (he has several, I think I read this in book 2 or 3) that learning something new is really just a matter of expanding your vocabulary. I was struck by how profound this was, because I saw the truth in it. However, it was only a partial truth. Indeed, much of learning something new is learning how it is called, and what that word means. This alone can open up vast new worlds and areas of exploration. However, to truly know requires a depth that goes beyond just the mere understanding of a few words. But rather you begin to see the new concept in all of its fullness. You can imagine it, like a circular globe in space. And you begin to see it in multiple dimensions, how it is interconnected with other concepts you hold. You can visualize the warp and the weave of the fibers that bind it to new experiences and past experiences that you have had. And you begin to see options; no longer does it have a singular meaning, but carries a multiplicity of nuances that vary according to the time and the exact context.

Well, I'll dispense with the theoretical rhetoric for now and just let it serve as my introduction. In the days and months to come I hope to go into more detail on the things I am learning, how they are interconnected with each other and how sometimes a single idea can run its singular course through seemingly diverse subjects like God, marriage, sales, real estate, art, and physics. All subjects I spend time with. All areas in which my life currently has stakes in. Welcome to my brain.