Spotting beauty

I was looking at a flowering plum tree today and the multitude of bees humming next to it, when a thought presented itself to me. I realized that we’ve spent soooooo much time practicing seeing the ugly, the lies, the mischief and all the things that don’t “flow” around us and in others. We’ve practiced so much that we have become masters of it.

I was listening last night to an interview with a guitar player that was saying there are 4 layers of competence: unconscious incompetence (you don’t know you don’t know), conscious incompetence (you know you know very little), conscious competence (you actively develop the competence) and unconscious competence (it becomes second nature).

We have become unconsciously competent at spotting the ugliness in the world. So, my question is, if we are so good at it that it has become second nature, isn’t it time to move on? To move to developing the skill of spotting beauty?