Hi friends, welcome to Radiohead Space, to Wednesday and to this new moment, its Dora.

As some of you may know, I've been in the midst of becoming a qualified mindfulness-based

dress reduction teacher. A part of the learning pathway is to be mentored and supervised for

the duration of the eight week program I'm currently teaching. I have the absolute

privilege of being mentored by one of the founding directors of the program.

The other day we were in a mentoring session and I shared how I've been struggling with planning

for class and feeling prepared and I'm learning there's a fine line. There's the reading

and course review that we can do that helps us to plan for class and then there's the

preparation which is really 24-7. When it comes to teaching something like mindfulness,

our preparation comes by practicing and experiencing life. As the poet Rumi writes, these are two

kinds of intelligence. There's acquired intelligence meaning the knowledge that is attained through

skills, practices and competencies. The intelligence that is gathered through memorizing facts and

concepts that helps us rise in the world and then there's already completed intelligence,

which is a wisdom that already exists within. It's not acquired but remembered. It's a way of being.

These are things like empathy and compassion, qualities and characteristics that come with being

human. This already completed intelligence is often forgotten and undervalued, especially in a

world that places so much value on climbing the ladder and less self-improvement than biohacking.

Yet this type of intelligence is what helps us to be prepared no matter what life presents us.

Sometimes, as I'm learning, planning can only take us so far.

After that conversation, my mentor encouraged me to take a different approach when teaching my next class.

He advised me to tap into my acquired intelligence and spend a few minutes looking at the notes I

had for the upcoming class and reflecting on the needs of my students. From there, I was instructed to use

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