{"id":321,"date":"2021-09-11T06:59:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T06:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2021-09-11T06:59:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T06:59:43","slug":"the-defeatist-culture-knowing-how-to-know-idries-shah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/the-defeatist-culture-knowing-how-to-know-idries-shah\/","title":{"rendered":"The Defeatist Culture \u2013 Knowing How To Know – Idries Shah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), This week again let me bring to your attention an interesting excerpt from this thought provoking work, \u2018Knowing How to Know\u2019<\/em><\/strong> by Idries Shah. In this work the author draws our attention to concealed patterns, normally invisible to our customary modes of thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Defeatist Culture<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overlapping all the differences of various current human cultures is the invisible \u2018defeatist culture\u2019, with common denominators among all people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A child learns from its parents and those adults who surround it. It learns not only the positive injunctions of problem-solving which its elders think they are teaching it. In addition it is learning to emulate the parents; and it emulates their defeatism. This includes their rationalizations of why they do not attempt certain tasks, why they are \u2018too tired\u2019, or such-and-such an effort is not \u2018worthwhile\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is true in the individual as it is in the society. Nobody had on record run a four-minute mile before someone did it. After that, because the unspoken taboo had been beaten, it became more and more common. A similar process takes place in children learning, perhaps sometimes without words, not to make a certain effort, an effort of will or of experiment.      <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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