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Facts are many but the truth is one…

You ever have a mental block about something? You know you should understand it, but for some reason you have a mental block. What you are looking at might as well be in a foreign language. I experienced this the other day. Correction…I experienced this for months and I would blow off the thing I was blocked about because I found another way around it, without resolving the mental block. I decided on Tuesday night I was going to conquer the mental block. I woke up early Wednesday, studied all day and wanted to hit a wall because I could feel it was something stupidly small that was causing me to not “get it”. So I asked someone I knew had the answers (Scrivs). Eventually I began to work through the mental block with his help.

Why do people have mental blocks in the first place? I remember in school one of the main reasons why people have a hard time working through a mental block is due to the inability to accept the facts of a given situation. Yes, that was my problem and Scrivs found that out real quick.

Scrivs: Why did you do that?
Me: Because it improved the situation.
Scrivs: No it doesn’t.
Me: Theoretically, it should because….
Scrivs: It doesn’t.
Me: Oh….(I’m still not letting it go but I don’t say anything)
Scrivs: So what would you do in X situation?
Me: (I give the appropriate answers but slide in I “could” do X…)
Scrivs: Why would you do that?
Me: Because theoretically….

It wasn’t until he explained to me why it wouldn’t work that I let it go and had that “Oooohhhh!!!!” moment. And that was the beginning of me letting go of the mental block. Once that block started to dissolve other blocks (dependent on the first one) started to dissolve. Things started to make sense.

If you have a mental block try and detach and see if you are injecting something into the situation that doesn’t belong. Accept the facts and prove them to be true.

*And yes, I made a World of Warcraft entry without mentioning the game…until now that is…*