Iren Bencze Teacher and Mentor

The world tends to celebrate the loudest voice in the room. We mistake brashness for confidence and aggression for strength. Reading about the the life of Moses today—a man described as "mighty in words and in deeds" yet "very meek, above all men"—made me think about a different kind of power.

As Elder David A. Bednar recently taught, meekness is defined by strong self-restraint. It is the disciplined ability to act rather than react. While weakness is the inability to do anything, meekness is having the power to do everything, but the wisdom to do only what is right.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2018/04/meek-and-lowly-of-heart?lang=eng

I like how Peter Diamandis uses an AI example to explain how our own brain works. (I used to do it backwards: human thinking to LLM. 🙃)

"Here’s how an LLM trains: it reads a sentence, predicts the next word, checks whether it was right, and adjusts its internal weights. Right answer? Strengthen that pathway. Wrong answer? Weaken it and try again. Billions of repetitions, trillions of adjustments.

Your brain does the same thing. Every experience is a prediction. You reach for a coffee cup and predict its weight. You start a sentence and predict how the other person will react. When reality matches your prediction, your synapses strengthen. When it doesn’t, your brain recalibrates."

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Science tells us that when humans are lost without landmarks, they naturally walk in circles—even when they are absolutely certain they are moving in a straight line. This is the reality of "spiritual drift" as well. We don't usually lose our way all at once; we drift in small, seemingly insignificant loops.

In this talk, Elder Uchtdorf (a former pilot) explains that a life is kept on track the same way an aircraft is: through constant, minor course corrections. Just as the Israelites needed fresh manna every morning, we need a "daily restoration" to keep from looping back to old patterns: we cannot navigate today’s challenges purely on yesterday’s insights.

My favorite takeaway: "Do you want to change the shape of your life? Change the shape of your day. Do you want to change your day? Change this hour. Change what you think, feel, and do at this very moment."

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2021/10/41uchtdorf?lang=eng

An honest and heartening talk from years ago.

Waiting on the Lord Elder Holland teaches that we can have faith that the Lord will answer our prayers in His time and His way.