From the moment of our birth, learning is a process. Our parents, siblings, schools, colleges, work and home environment all provide us with learning experiences.
There is an inflection point at which the mind begins to interfere. This interference comes from all the social labels that we acquire during the course of our life. The schools and colleges dish out certificates and awards.
Our education has degrees that provide us with labels and expectations of our supposed command over knowledge and behavior. These very labels soon create a perception of mastery and invincibility.
There are ways to learn and here are some of them:
Your experiences are a valuable teacher. A habit of keeping a diary helps us record our thoughts and allows us to revisit those thoughts at a later time when we are more evolved on account of our life experiences. Discussions about your life experiences with a good friend can help you learn more about them – and may offer you an opportunity to transmute pain into stepping stones.
Vicarious experiences – learning from the mistakes of other people – teach us. Great biographies and autobiographies offer us opportunities to use other people’s mistakes as resources. We may mature up to those experiences and have better skill when we encounter similar situations in our lives.
Get in touch with what your enemies think about you. There are reasons to believe that it may expose truths about you that you may have taken great effort in concealing.
Change is all around us and it is our attitude of pomposity as regards our pre-existing knowledge that will determine how we make sense of the changes around us. The Chinese have a saying “For a person who knows how to use a hammer, every problem is a nail.”
©Nitesh Kotecha
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