Hexagram #4 - Inexperience (Youthful Folly)

 

Moving to	Date
		Unchanging -
7 40	11/4/98 8/28/00	Top Line Too much self-discipline creates a narrow mind.  Too much discipline imposed from outside destroys initiative and breaks the spirit.  No self discipline makes any kind of achievement impossible.  some self discipline reasonable reinforced by a teacher creates just the right atmosphere for learning
		Fifth Line
40	8/28/00	Fourth Line - The student is allowing his mind to wander aimlessly.  The teacher, however, knows that the student will eventually come back to his senses, without being told to do so.
		Third Line
		Second Line
		Bottom line

 

" I do not go and seek the youthful and inexperienced but he comes and seeks me. When he shows the sincerity that marks the first recourse to divination, I instruct him. If he apply a second and a third time,  that is troublesome; and I do not instruct the troublesome. There will be advantage in being firm and correct".

The 4^th hexagram is often the I-Ching’s way of saying you’re asking the wrong question or the need to ask the question is foolish

 

Wednesday, November 04, 1998

Question: what will be the impact on me of work with the GE proposal

4 moving to 7

Be on guard for careless or rebellious attitudes characteristic of youthful inexperience. Just as a youth requires instruction, this is a good time to focus on learning your lessons from a patient teacher or life experience. Is there a circumstance in your life, which you have failed to comprehend completely, perhaps because you have failed to appreciate its inherent complexities? Be respectful of anything or anyone who has something to teach you right now.  In order to be ready for challenging times, let education be a continuing part of your life. Be continually developing the strong mind and will necessary to carry one through confusing times. The wise realize that experience, especially difficult experience, is a powerful teacher. But we cannot be forced to learn, even from experience. Be a good student, one who delights in learning, one who nourishes his or her expanding awareness.

Examine your attitude for factors which limit your openness. Observe how you deal with the mistakes of others. You must let people live their own lives and learn their own lessons. Offer others your wisdom or advice, but only if they are receptive. Otherwise, give up trying to convince them that you are right - that is only exhausting and counter-productive. If people are not receptive, let them proceed - even into difficulty or dangerous circumstances. It is the only way they can learn - and without learning, no one can achieve success. This does not mean that you should not care -- just that taking care of someone too much can be harmful. Live and let learn.

The most specific advice with regard to your question is contained in changing line 6:  

Note:  I spent a weekend developing a proposal and they never even had the courtesy to call me to say thanks.  We chatted after I tracked my contact down but nothing ever came of it.  Of course there was no way I could have passed on developing the proposal and no way I could have spent less effort, since ultimately we're judged by the quality of our work when we don't think anyone is looking so possibly it was very, very silly of me to have asked the question at this point.  

Note: 8/28/00 I'm always fascinated by the way a reading will seem different when there's more water under the dam.  The answer to my question lay exclusively in the changing line.  It was necessary to do what I did because I was a member of the Big software company Army and I had been given orders that I needed to carry out.  All things are not done by choice.  Some things we do because it is expected of us in our role.

Monday, August 28, 2000

Question: should I be pursuing another job outside of CA now?

4 moving to 40