To me, the « no opinion » exercise is one of the most challenging exercises of the MKE.
And I have observed during all my years as a MKE guide that I am not alone to find the “no opinion” exercise challenging!
So why is this?
We have been conditioned to forge opinions since our earliest age – even before starting school.
So, for example, if you are now in your forties and just discovering the MKE, you have already about 40 years of conditioning and training in “opinion forging”…That’s a lot of years compared to your still modest exposure to the “no opinion” discovery of the MKE!
That’s why, if you want to win this battle of changing your mentality towards a “no opinion” attitude, you should be prepared to train yourself as you would for running a marathon or, even better, an Ironman…
And this is ok, because you can rely from now on, on at least two great reasons to celebrate:
The first reason is that you are now aware of one of the few most efficient mechanisms which is preventing most people to reach their full potential as human beings.
The second reason is that you are in the MKE training, which has been designed specifically to help you eliminate these mechanisms or to change them in a way that will serve your growth rather than prevent it.
How long will it take before you will start collecting results from your efforts?
For me, I started seeing positive results before the end of my first MKE session as a student…I was able to quickly be aware of my “opinion addiction” in my most usual conversations with my family, my friends or my partners…
It took me a little longer to realize that, positive or negative, an opinion is still an opinion…and that in both cases, it could bring to unwanted results.
It took me longer to reach the point where I was finally able to control my impulses to express opinions during engaging conversations…I am still working on this, but I feel proud of myself for the progress I have made since my first MKE experience.
On a scale of 1 to 10 measuring my propensity to express an opinion verbally during a conversation, with 1 being “opinion expressed every time” and 10 being “no opinion expressed”, I would give myself a 6.
On that same scale for measuring the occurrences of opinions expressed mentally, I would probably be still below grade 5…
Both figures mean that there is still a lot of space for improvement, and that is ok, we don’t win an Ironman by just training a few months, but with focus, intention and…persistence!
These are the qualities I wish for each of you, valiant MKE explorers…
Practice your “no opinion” attitude and change your life for the best!
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