9 tweets · July 2021 · 35 likes · 2 retweets · read on Twitter
Great thread and replies about the hidden curriculum of most schools. I think it would be cool to collect long lists of these and write threads and blogposts and songs about these learnings and how they don't apply outside school, with tips on introspecting to do coherence work.
If you want to try this yourself, take an item from @made_in_cosmos' list, and gently ask yourself: "does this resonate for me?" As you do, invite any images or memories to come to mind of when this was true for you in your schooling. They may be super vague, just listen.
Speaking the sentence out loud can help, both with the initial inquiry and once you've got an image or memory in mind, to amplify the felt sense of truth.
If you notice parts of you quickly objecting "no that's not true" before you've really felt into it, say to them: "ok, I know that's not the whole truth, I just want to find out if parts of me feel like this is true, and what they think about it" & see if they'll give space
So yeah, your aim here is to gently feel into what part of you is genuinely holding one of these statements as feeling true. That part of you might not know that you're an adult now and you have way more freedom in various ways!
You're not trying to argue with that old perspective. Overwriting doesn't work! Just invite it to know what it knows, fully, and offer it whatever other data you have to help it form a more complete picture of the world.
Oh man probably it would make sense to actually *do this myself*, rather than just telling other people to. Okay, will make a new thread for that, and link below when done.
Oh another suggestion, based on how I'm approaching this: to start with, scan down the list for the first one that really stands out to you (it may already be jogging a particular memory at that point) and do this exploration on that one
Iteration 1... didn't get very far and then twitter lost my tweets so I summarized. May do another one later.