When Is A Lesson A Lesson?

Are Your lessons falling on deaf ears? You're not alone, but those lessons have to be learned on their own.

Grasshopper Notes are the writings from America's Best Known Hypnotherapist John Morgan. His podcasts contain his most responded to essays and blog posts from the past two decades. 

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Transcript

When Is A Lesson A Lesson?

Learned a lesson from The Grasshopper the other day: “A lesson is not a lesson you own until you learn it on your own.”

If you’re a parent, you can relate. How many life lessons have you learned that you try and pass on to your children who ignore your counsel?

You’ve already stepped into that puddle that you want them to avoid, or at least wear galoshes. (Do they still call them galoshes)?

Based on my experience, most lessons learned contain some pain. That’s because when you’re learning something new there is discomfort. The discomfort is a sign you’re learning.

You can’t teach an experience. It has to be, well, “experienced” to take hold.

And we have to let go of our hold on the way others should proceed. They’re gonna blaze their own trail and no doubt experience what we predicted: “fail.” But they will learn the lesson. They may even have to go down that errant trail a few times before the lesson sinks in.

Hey, don’t stop offering your wise counsel, just put it in the words of my sainted mother: “You’re going to do what you’re going to do anyway, but here’s what I think.” That way it appears as an option, not a dictate.

If you’re curious, there’s a new book out by Mel Robbins that goes into this philosophy with a lot more depth. It’s called, “The Let Them. Theory.” Mel’s podcast has the most followers of any female online and her messages are concise and precise. You might learn a lesson or two from Mel.

All the best,

John