Spa Teaching
This morning I went to three exercise classes: one working out with a heavy bar, next circuit training, then an hour and a half of Iyengar yoga.
This afternooon,as novelist-in-residence for the week at Rancho La Puerta spa in Tecate, Mexico, I taught my writing class. Teaching the class took more out of me than all the hopping and hoisting and yog-ing.
Teaching is the most demanding thing I ever do that I can do. I once tried to learn how to sell mortgages and that was simply beyond me. Almost no one wanted to rely on my wisdom on the subject of mortgages.
My brand of bold is teaching. It’s the thing that feels scariest of the things I actually am capable of. Which is my definition of bold.
What activity takes you to the place where possible meets demanding? Or do you have lots of them?
(Other good adventures in the last 24 hours included a concert of Tibetan sacred music which the audience of about 100 listened to lying down.
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Categories: boldness, fear and courage, teaching