{"id":271,"date":"2008-08-06T09:18:33","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T14:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/?p=271"},"modified":"2019-03-20T18:17:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T23:17:25","slug":"slogging-to-the-ah-ha-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/intj\/slogging-to-the-ah-ha-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Slogging to the &#8220;Ah-ha!&#8221; Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve learned to be patient. Or maybe it&#8217;s just that I&#8217;ve learned to trust myself. My Need-for-closure Self (the J-type) has learned to let my intuitive self (the N-type) do her job. Intuitive Self knows that with enough pieces, the puzzle will come together; she&#8217;ll be able to connect the dots, to see the patterns. Need-for-closure Self has to suspend her need to know the parameters and constraints before starting out. She has to fly blind for a little bit, until Intuitive Self gets the lay of the land. This makes Need-for-closure Self nervous. She wants to give up before she begins. She wants to remain in well-charted territories. She likes to be on firm footing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nSo I&#8217;ve been slogging. Just putting one foot in front of the other, not understanding what I was seeing, not knowing where I was going. Just keep going, keep going. Something will click and then it will make sense. And suddenly it does. I see the world with new eyes. It feels just like this.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lUV65sV8nu0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>A Note About The Miracle Worker: I saw this movie when I was very young, perhaps 7 or 8 years old and it had an incredible impact on my psyche, especially because my older brother was mentally retarded. I knew wanted to be a teacher, someone who could unlock the mysteries of the world to others. It is a very dark film, especially in the scenes showing Anne Sullivan&#8217;s childhood. Do children today watch &#8220;serious&#8221; films or are they restricted to a children&#8217;s ghetto of slapstick humor and animation?<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve learned to be patient. Or maybe it&#8217;s just that I&#8217;ve learned to trust myself. My Need-for-closure Self (the J-type) has learned to let my intuitive self (the N-type) do her job. Intuitive Self knows that with enough pieces, the puzzle will come together; she&#8217;ll be able to connect the dots, to see the patterns. Need-for-closure Self has to suspend her need to know the parameters and constraints before starting<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/intj\/slogging-to-the-ah-ha-moment\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[22,138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3813,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/3813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}