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Posted by James P
(JR) on 5/12/2008, 7:14 pm, in reply to "A little miffed"
162.111.195.15
koi keeping teaches humility. Or at least it should. This applies to both husbandry and koi appreciation. ESPECIALLY appreciation.
In a way, koi appreciation is like mountain climbing- they are both journeys and with both, just when you thought you have gotten to the end/top, you look around the bend and there is a whole 'nother' level ahead of you- and that is humbling, or should be.
Myles, I have also heard amateur judges kinda 'feel'n their oats'. Usually it is because they have just grasped or mastered an aspect of koi and are feeling pretty confident that they have it down, finally. But then, they turn that bend at the next koi show or during a trip to Japan and get humbed all over again! That is if the ego has swelled to a point that learning from others is no longer possible. This can actually be a trap for many intermediate and advanced judges, I think, as the material you must learn appears to diminish with time. In the beginning, everything is new and there is tons to learn in terms of orientation, memorization, etc. Once orientated however, you need to search for bits of new information. And just when you think you are just adding window dressing to your knowledge base, you have one of those moments, epiphany actually, and a whole nother level of understanding visits the serious student. It is like anything else, the minute you think you know it all, you stop learning and actually become stuck in time.
I think the problem is really that koi judging in the west is an individual and personal journey based on only working feedback at a koi show once a year. In Japan, it is a very organized group activity in which things are drilled into trainees in a very structured and organized fashion. It is not a surpise then that the koi chapter in Japan is viewed as a martial art's type Dojo in which the judge takes the responsibility of teacher in what is an unending apprecticeship program. In fact, a local judge designation is really mean to be a beginning stage towards full certification.
I was recently reading a book entitled Den of Thieves, written about my old wall street firm, Kidder Peabody. The book of course, focuses on the end of the firm and it's down turn. But in the golden years ( the firm was created in 1865 and moved to New York in 1931-35) the 'greats' like Albert Gordon, single handedly created a firm that did some of the most important mergers, saved firms and built major companies of today. The point here is, Gordon and others built wall street and taught youngsters coming up what was what. This experience was an MBA program on the job. Heck, just having lunch once a week with Gordon and the rest, opened my eyes more than 2 years of business school ever could have. These were the teachers because they created 'the street'.
You learn from those who have come before and have seen the development of the thing you are interested in learning. You add your 'finger print' to the process but you do not dilude yourself into believing that you are more than the process itself or can cast off the old and wing it as you go along at whatever level you happen to be at , at the moment.
Koi teaching, like loosing an entire 110 year old investment banking firm, teaches humility! JR
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