The more I learn, the more I see the beauty of the connection in everything.
When learning a language, instrument, or skill, we immerse ourselves in the intricacies of the topic.
Searching for teachers, reading books, watching videos and experimentation are all ways in which we practice.
Only with time do we achieve a degree of mastery.
Perhaps there comes a point where we start to plateau? The basics are ingrained but the topic doesn’t seem to excite us anymore even when done well.
During these times, we get bored, complacent, or feel superior to the subject because we assume that we have mastered all there is to know.
But what if we want to push the limit more? To be entirely in your own league redefining the meaning of your craft, skill, profession, or academic?
This is where the bridge from good to greatness lies.
However it never is simple.
I have come to appreciate that while depth of knowledge on a topic is important to understanding something intimately – there is the risk of becoming jaded.
For example the foundation of the alphabet is essential to knowing the base of a language, so that later you progress in other pieces of literature.
Once the foundation is set, the magic for the student becomes the ‘play-like’ creation of creating something unique with the core building blocks.
Afterall marble is just a slab of stone, yet can be smoothed and shaped into intricate statues of humans!
So what separates the master from the student?
Is it the repetitive success of the foundational techniques only?
OR
Is it expressed and created from what was thought to be impossible in the discipline?
Where does this insight and creativity come from?
I believe that breakthroughs occur when wisdom is overlapped into other disciplines.
In its essence, the ability to adopt and apply other forms of disciplines to your own.
Exploring a different field of study to see with a fresh perspective the thoughts behind the beauty of a new topic.
The same principles apply to learning its components, theories and mapping of key laws to help us cross compare to your field.
When we look hard enough, we see that there are patterns in the universe. The symmetry, trends, or irreplaceable laws that are present in everything around us.
The cross pollination of disciplines is the birth of new topics of study. What was once thought to be impossible becomes the dawn of new genius.
Quantum mechanics forever changed how we understand the universe. Yet its application can be applied to computing or security, and so much more… because we are still discovering.
Electronic Music changed the music scene forever by combining machine electric pulses to form endless sub genres with programming skills.
Science and Art start to weave into each other in ways that support the secrets to discovering more.
When we leverage other models of thinking we connect dots to seeing things in different light. How it can be applied, structured, or experimented with.
The dance between subjects has the potential for entirely new creations – one of which defines mankind.
To improve means to find meaning in areas unknown. Embodying the fact that we are all students of life, being inspired by other disciples so that it may allow us to see something extraordinary in something ordinary – to see the potential in things old and new.
The reason being that rigid thinking makes for rigid beliefs.
Experiencing the thinking behind the rationale is healthy for cross analysis to draw new connections.
Point is that we can all learn from each other.
Examples of wisdom overlap:
- Nature teaches us how to organize community to live in harmony
- Love and relationships inspire music to not just be listened but felt
- Business as a tool of social justice can be learned from religious teachings
- Visualizing the physics of atoms in the world has created phenomenal art
- Software design takes lessons from biological relationships and energy management
The list goes on.
Any time I find myself thinking too rigidly, I dip my thoughts into another field of study that I find to be refreshing.
Not only does it change the mental chemistry of what I know, it alters my pre-existing beliefs from my original topic.
For example, being in the IT field, I am exposed to technical verbiage and diagrams to illustrate complex systems. At the end of the day I want to rinse my mind in a different way via listening to music or reading random content online to connect dots to what I am doing.
Music is a great example for me personally because it is a layered creation that if you pay attention to, is a breakdown of components together that make the entity complete. Like creating a product or software where multiple parts come together in sync.
And once you see it, you see it everywhere.
My takeaway from sharing all this is to go explore a different field of interest to you. Find the differences in disciplines, review masterpieces from the greats and connect the art to the science. Let your mind loose to embrace what is new – The math to the magic, the music to the madness, the mystery to the brilliance.
And of course, have fun and let the creativity flow.
