This is a YouTube video titled "Stop living in extremes with Sam Qurashi" containing a monologue or talk recorded on June 18, 2021. The speaker discusses contrasting approaches to learning and introduces the concept of "liminalism," which emphasizes finding a balanced middle ground between opposing extremes. The content explores philosophical ideas about flexibility, balance, and integrating conflicting perspectives.
Bulletproof radio, a state of high performance. What is the number one thing that surprised the heck out of you after you stepped out of the traditional world and started looking around? All the things you looked at? The top one. Wow. That's okay. I think one of the biggest aha moments is discovering the two different types of schools in terms of learning. So from everything, from everyone that I've learned from, there are two types of schools in terms of learning. One is you do the same thing over and over, but whenever you make a mistake, you stop and you start from the beginning. Because you don't want to teach your muscles to do the wrong thing. Right. You want to start from the beginning. That's one school. The other school is you continuously do it. And even if you make a mistake, you don't stop. Because at the end of the day, it's about crafting a skeleton of what you're doing. And then you can always go back and iron it out. And that was so interesting, because in a way, they're opposing. They're very opposing. When you think about it, like, do you stop or do you not stop? You can't do both at the same time. That allowed me to come up with a model that I've been working on about liminalism. The middle ground. A lot of people live in extremes. Yeah. Especially right now. Yes. The thing about extremes is if you live in an extreme, you're limited, automatically. Think of it as a mountain. When you're at the top of the mountain in the middle ground, you can see both sides. But if you're on one, on the bottom of one side, you can't see the other. The middle ground to a lot of people is basically the gray area. The middle ground is the. I guess it's shady, it's indecisive. You know, it's untrustworthy. A lot of people assume that that's the case. But you see, what lives. To me, what lives between black and white is not gray. It's literally the entire color spectrum, balance, focus, flexibility, options, choice, that lives in the middle ground. You become a liaison to both sides. You become the person that you. That can connect the ideas of both sides. What. Whether that's on a social level or an internal level, mental level, because you would have different conflicting ideas anyway as a human being. So having that liminalism concept of how to actually find that middle ground, to me, it's not this or that. The middle ground is, what if it's this and that? What if two opposing forces can coexist? What if there's a way to connect them. What if it's this, then that. And that's one of the things that came up with that concept of the two opposing schools of thought in terms of learning.
