This third approach is most effective and has elements of the first two approaches.
There is a voice within each of us that can sense the answers existing outside ourselves.
We know we don't have all the answers, But we also understand that answers do exist out there somewhere, And we need to access answers in so many areas.
And so we look for answers outside ourselves—outside-in.
We go to far, However, When we expect these answers to come wholly from the outside in, Simply for the asking—like a genie in a lamp who can grant to us any three wishes.
From time to time, We may receive answers in full, But more often, We merely get clues and guidance.
This is a good thing.
Whatever you want to call it, There is a force in the universe that won't give us answers for the asking, But instead gives as hints.
There is the danger of dependence—and laziness if we're given the answers too easily.
Consider this story from the October 1950 Reader's Digest.
In our friendly neighbor city of St. Augustine great flocks of sea gulls are starving amid plenty. Fishing is still good, But the gulls don't know how to fish. For generations they have depended on the shrimp fleet to toss them scraps from the nets. Now the fleet has moved.... The shrimpers had created a Welfare State for the... Sea gulls. The big birds never bothered to learn how to fish for themselves, And they never taught their children to fish. Instead they led their little ones to the shrimps nets. Now the sea gulls, The fine free birds that almost symbolize liberty itself, Are starving to death because they gave in to the “Something for nothing” lure! They sacrificed their independence for a handout.
I think people can become like that too.
It would be nice if the answers to life's questions were just given to us like scraps or handouts from the universe.
However, It would create a dependence and slothfulness that would be just as dangerous to us as it was for these sea gulls in this story.
The seriousness of such dependence is multiplied when you consider the ever-changing nature of our world today.
We can't afford to be less, As life today demands more.
We don't want just the scraps from the universe anyway.
Rather, We want all the universe has to offer.
That would require effort on our part.
We are trying to prepare ourselves and our children for an uncertain and unpredictable future.
The Reader's Digest story continues.
Let's not be gullible gulls. We... Must preserve our talents of self-sufficiency, Our genius for creating things for ourselves, Our true love of independence.
The fact that effort is required to achieve what we want, Is both the challenge and the blessing.
Recall the zigzag path to growth in the allegory of the three.
We go through growing pains on our way to personal growth and fulfillment.
The key to learning from without is to identify and understand the hints from the universe, And determine what to do with those hints.
This third most effective way of changing— “Learning from without then grow from within”—Has two parts.
Learning from without is about is about learning natural laws through the living examples of other people.
Growing from within is having enough conviction and desire to take what we have learned from others, And emulate those lessons in our own lives.
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