Practise Makes Perfect

In your studies of Chinese Metaphysic subjects, just how many of you have a good idea of what to expect prior to attending a new class? Most of us don't. We can have the entire syllabus we care to request for but at best, we will only have some vague ideas. If you do, you are most likely a repeat student, a professional in disguise or studied from somewhere else before.

Even as a repeat student, you will find that there will always be new information. The question is, are they really new information?

If you have been recording the lecture notes, you will find that some of the so-called "new" information has already been covered. In your previous class, perhaps, it was simply just not emphasized. Go through your notes again and you will know what I mean.

Because of time constrains, we can only absorb what we can understand and leaving those that we cannot absorb to a later date. Very soon, we tend to forget those we have marked "to be revised". By the time we want to get to it, we would have totally lost it.

My advise is, practise makes perfect!. It is only through lots of practises that will reinforce what we have studied and confirm our understanding. It is also through practises, we will discover what we have missed out and what we need to do to find the answer. No question is too simple to ask.

Sometimes significant statements are made during class. But because you have yet to fully understand the complete picture, you do not realised the importance of the information. It was only after a few tries, and knocking on various doors that you realised "Hey, so that is what it is all about!"

As the saying goes, "The most profound are the most basic!"