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GliderGuider

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4. It can work both ways.

Reply to YankeyMCC (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 29, 2012, 06:01 PM

Aug 2012

The one time I was pulled badly off direction was by tying myself to a teacher who, while competent and well meaning, wasn't the right teacher for me. Before accepting a teacher it helps to have some self-awareness if one wishes to avoid that problem. Of course, in the beginning one may need to accept a teacher in order to find some self-awareness... One of the conundrums of the game.

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The equanimity of non-attachment is a double-edged sword. [View all] GliderGuider Aug 2012 OP

Questions like this are important YankeyMCC Aug 2012 #1

Better yet, GliderGuider Aug 2012 #2

Yeah definately keep asking yourself YankeyMCC Aug 2012 #3

It can work both ways. GliderGuider Aug 2012 #4

I have struggled with this as a mother particularly liberal_at_heart Mar 2013 #5