Mastery

The Barcelona' soccer team has won the Champions League Trophy after winning also this season the other two most important national competitions, it's been quite amazing, they have played extraordinarily. The personality behind this serie of triumphs, who's been able to put together the best of all players has been Pep Guardiola, the new coach, and former player in the team himself. To me he has shown an unshakable commitment to the team -and all that it means from a national perspective-, an unbreakable vision and admirable force in his positive expectations about its performance and outcomes, and exemplary humbleness -key in transferring power to the team-, with a capacity to remain with his feet on the ground so the players could fly. Hopefully these lessons may be aprehended by some true teachers and moreover, clever parents, because being a true teacher, a good one, is not merely about showing off or passing on information, it's mainly about being able to see what is not in front of oneself, about envisioning, maintaining the positive expectations, it's about human faith, imagination and empowerment. Well, it's about love indeed. It may be after all about going against the flow of mediocrity, stupidity and systematic standarization, it's difficult indeed but to me this is the better practice of intelligence: realising and valuating the potencials. I recall Einstein mentioning about the power of imagination over knowledge, this is kind of important today that we tend to pay more attention to the facts, the figures and the visual imperatives of experience. The other day I read in a publication on PNL that "we are not our behaviour but our best intentions", it may not sound very realistic but who is not finally feed up of reality in this existence? I think that men are created for higher realms than reality and we are more profound and rich than it. And if one wanna solve anything in the world one need to approach any issue from a different level than the one where the problem was originated, ain't it? it's simple perspective's theory. Don't remember where the quote comes from but yes, "it is not healthy to be well adapted to a society that is profoundly sick".