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Health, Wellness, Exercise, Reflections:The School of Hard Knocks
By John H. Sklare, Ed.D / June 08, 2012
How good are you at learning those important lessons we all get from the school of hard knocks that we call life? I ask that question because discovering what works for you and against you is a critical part of gaining wisdom. And, since nobody can escape this inevitable aspect of life, I know that you have all had your own personal experiences with finding things out the hard way. However, as I always say, the only thing worse than making a mistake is making a mistake and not learning anything from it. And learning from our mistakes is the focus of my message today.
Learning is an interesting, yet complicated endeavor for us humans. It's also idiosyncratic because people tend to learn things in different ways and, as a result, react differently to various forms of teaching. Years ago I used to teach learning theory to college students. In academia, your ability to learn and then answer questions about what you've learned is the key to progressing and getting good grades. One thing that I learned as a teacher was that the method used for recalling information often dictated how well certain students performed on tests.
As a general rule, some people tend to do better on one or the other of these two forms of testing in the classroom. Of course, lessons learned in life are a lot different than the lessons we learn in school.
If you're no longer a student, think back to those old school days when you had to take exams in class. Were you the type of student that did best when you were asked to recall information, when prompted, and tended to like multiple choice tests best? Or did you prefer the less structured and more free-thinking form of recalling information that the essay test so readily allowed?In most cases, we don't get to study for those tests that life puts in front of us. Not to mention that the tests we get in life are more often than not unannounced and, therefore, don't allow for any preparation at all. Yet we're all challenged on a regular basis and, just like in school, some of us do better than others when we're tested.
Of course, it's important to be a good learner in school, but it's absolutely critical to be a good learner in life – your happiness and contentment depend on it. Life, unlike school, doesn't come with credentialed teachers who go out of their way to help you learn, offer private tutoring and are considerate of your feelings. Instead, the lessons we learn from life are gained from the experiences we have and are often painful, brutal and unconcerned about our feelings.
For example, take the young child who touches the hot stove after being told not to. Even after being warned, many children still find it necessary to test this dire warning, only to find out quickly why it's a bad idea. Or take the person who, even after being warned by those who know, gets involved in a romantic relationship with someone who's absolutely toxic for them. Again, just like the child with the stove, the pain could've been avoided if you listened to your friends.
However, the experience of the burned finger or fateful relationship isn't wasted if you learn something that helps you avoid another similar problem in the future.Unfortunately, we all know people who just don't seem to learn from their mistakes and, as a result, continue to make the same mistakes repeatedly. And the truth is that the lessons that most help us learn to live happy, healthy and satisfying lives aren't the ones taught inside the school classrooms. No, we learn them when we're tested in the school of hard knocks.
So how about you? Are you a good learner in the school of life and, if so, what lessons have you learned… the hard way?
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Boy Scouts' ban on gays is fought from the inside
Scouts for Equality isn't the first group to protest the long-standing policy against gay Scouts and leaders, but now the dissent is coming from within the Boy Scouts' ranks.
By Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times / June 8, 2012
For decades, the Boy Scouts of Americahas weathered anger, petitions and lawsuits over a long-standing policy that bans gay Scouts and troop leaders.
But the dissent that erupted this week is different. It's coming from a group that's exclusively its own.
A group of Eagle Scouts has banded together to form Scouts for Equality, a group aimed at challenging the century-old policy.
Its formation comes on the heels of an announcement from Boy Scout top brass: They will examine a recent resolution that would reverse the policy. But group leaders also say the resolution probably won't pass.
"We are not making a social commentary," Boy Scouts spokesman Daron Smith said. "We do not believe that the issue of same-sex attraction should be discussed in our youth program. That right belongs to families."
Scouts for Equality is not the first group to fight the rule, but it is the first composed entirely of Eagle Scouts, the highest honor a Boy Scout can attain.
The group's co-founder is Zach Wahls, an Eagle Scout from Iowa with lesbian mothers. His emotional speech before state lawmakers who were debating same-sex marriage went viral last year.
"Eagle Scouts are very connected to each other -- we're a fraternity in many ways," Wahls said. "We're providing a sounding board for the scouting community, where we can assess our support and mobilize people to end the policy."
Wahls also helped spearhead a petition calling on the Boy Scouts to end the ban. The petition began when Ohio mother Jennifer Tyrrell was fired from her volunteer Cub Scout leader position in April because she is a lesbian.
Tyrrell had not discussed her sexuality with her Tiger Scout troop, she said, because discussions related to sex are not part of the scouting mission. Some children had asked Tyrrell why her partner was a woman. She simply answered that their son, Cruz, had two moms.
"All they knew was that I was den leader Jen, not gay den leader Jen," Tyrrell said. "Children don't know discrimination until they're taught."
Tyrrell wrote the petition on change. org, and a month later, Wahls delivered nearly 300,000 signatures to Boy Scout executives at their annual meeting in Orlando, Fla.
The change.org petition also spurred an anonymous writer to submit the proposed resolution, which would allow local troops to choose whether to admit gay troop leaders and Scouts.
A subcommittee will review and analyze the proposal. The organization's executives will vote next May.
Should the resolution fail to pass, Tyrrell, Wahl and other supporters plan to file a lawsuit.
Smith said the resolution is one of several the organization has seen since 2000, when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Boy Scouts in a lawsuit brought by a fired troop leader who had been outed. In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled that the Boy Scouts have a right to exclude gay leaders because opposing homosexuality is part of the group's "expressive message."
"This is an important social discussion," Smith said. "There have been a lot of people who disagree with this policy. But they just don't see that Boy Scouts is a place to reconcile divergent opinions in society."
The Boy Scouts have seen support from a number of organizations and nonprofits, including the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the conservative American Civil Rights Union.
Other organizations that have tried to change the policy include Scouting for All, a San Diego-based organization run by former Scout Howard Menzer.
Menzer quit around the time of the Supreme Court ruling after 54 years as an Eagle Scout, troop leader and district volunteer, saying he could not tolerate any more discrimination against children.
"Groups appear, and make some noise, and then they disappear," Menzer said. "You can't know until you start trying to change something how hard it's going to be."
He has organized pickets and circulated petitions against the policy for nearly 15 years. He says he wishes Scouts for Equality well, but isn't optimistic that its efforts will be different.
Menzer said he couldn't pay dues to an organization with which he did not agree. Wahls remains active as an Eagle Scout, and says he hopes to create change from the inside.
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