Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness by Derek Doepker

Author:Derek Doepker [Doepker, Derek]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-12-17T18:30:00+00:00

To Receive Or To Rob? That Is The Question

Would you give to those who cannot receive? When one is ready to receive, only then it will be given.

Perhaps you feel the giving thing has merit, but you may also be a bit curious about the whole “receiving” thing.

But Derek… don’t we need to choose to receive as well as choose to give? Isn’t a problem that some people are such great givers but terrible receivers?

If you pondered this yourself, then I have a question for you…

What makes you think giving and receiving aren’t the same?

There is no act of giving without an act of receiving co-existing at exactly the same moment. The moment something is given, it is also received. To say giving has taken place without receiving would be faulty logic from this perspective.

But Derek… I get that giving and receiving go hand in hand, but why say you can only give? Surely you can say at some point you’re giving, and then at other points you’re receiving if someone is giving to you. Oh wait, it’s probably a four-value logic paradox thing, right? I’m sure you probably have some totally smart answer to this so now I’m going to shut up this mind chatter and prepare to have some enlightenment dropped on me.

“Giving and receiving” is one way of looking at things. A breath is giving carbon dioxide and then in the next moment receiving oxygen. Another way to consider, if only for a moment, is that everything is giving. Couldn’t you say it’s giving carbon dioxide to the air during an exhalation and then giving oxygen to the lungs during an inhalation? You could say receiving something is giving reception.

As much as this might sound like an attempt to be overly philosophical, it really comes back to practical application. This “always giving” game is useful for turning receiving into something that’s active. Remember that we’re using words to describe a reality that cannot be limited to words. Language is limited in its ability to express deeper truths.

Let’s look at this practically…

Imagine you’re giving a gift to someone. You really thought long and hard about this gift and feel it’s perfect for them, and you leave it on their table wrapped up in a nice shiny box.

But they don’t ever acknowledge it. Nothing. Not a word.

You start to wonder… did they receive it?

I mean sure, it was sitting on their table, but maybe they didn’t see it. Maybe it got thrown away by accident. Then you notice next time you’re at their house… there’s your gift box opened up, and the gift is sitting on the table.

You see them.

They say nothing.

What. The. Eff?

Does it feel like your gift is received? Sure you intellectually know they have it, but they didn’t acknowledge it. Doesn’t something feel off about this?

Have you ever given anything and felt like, “Ugh! Not even an acknowledgment? Not even a thank you? Not even a hand wave in the window when I slow down to

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