[Notice: The series are a personal effort in understanding the brain/mind and how it will apply to my life and practice of the fighting/marital arts. Any errors or omissions are mine alone and do not reflect on the sources from which I draw my thoughts and understanding. If you find any please allow me the human condition of making errors and provide me the information I need to learn, grow, and prosper.]
Knowledge (academics), the first step. If you have not been exposed to what it is or what it does and so on then your brain and mind cannot find it in you when it does occur. This is not to say that all things can be programmed into the mind and thus the brain yet you can train and practice to get close.
In this post on knowledge the idea is simple, take the time to find and study all the topics on a subject before you undertake it in training and/or practice. I simply mean you should do the data mining so you can learn about it by reading, watching, asking questions and for the final analysis do the contemplation on the knowledge you have acquired, in you mind/brain/mind, and either accept it or discard it.
To accept it initially is not the last time you will analyze it, contemplate it, etc. I also say that you should not "discard it" unless it is so blatantly out there it reaches the science fiction aspect. To accept it, initially, means you feel it warrants further consideration and then can implement it into your practice and training.
Seek the knowledge, i.e. academics, first then test it out in practice/training. This means you test it out over time and with effort and intent. If it does not work initially it is not because it is non-functional or not of value but simply means you have not adjusted to this particular form of training and practice.
Give it time, let it brew within, and after a period of dedicated effort if you find it of no value then discard it other wise keep practicing, practicing, practicing.
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