Some insights from my pocket on learning:
It is easy to say that “you should learn something”. A person might even acknowledge that they need to learn it. But what it takes to learn a thing is the acknowledgement of their need/needs. If a person doesn’t think that they need a particular thing, they will never want to have it. And if they don’t want to have it, they will not indulge their efforts in trying to have it. And in that case, the only thing left with you is your “comfort and no need to learn a thing attitude”. This attitude is good for a virtual world, as in real world the need for continuous learning is more than required.
To be able to learn something is a skill.
There are number of attitudes by which a person learns something:
1) One might just learn something to complete a particular task at that particular moment.
2) One may try to learn something to use the learning for the present task and then to use it for completing this particular task at a later time.
3) Or one may learn something, mull over it, use it now, later, and draw inferences out of this learning so that they extrapolate it in all new activities they try. While this kind of learning is done there is a positive and a negative prospect to it.
i) Positive: you will take less time and less effort to learn anything new, as you would have reference of mistakes and will know the pattern of how your own brain works.
ii) Negative: Our brain processes so many things together that this learning and extrapolation activity might lead you to use it even when you don’t need it.
Therefore it is important to be very careful while developing this skill. Continuous contemplation about your activities and the pattern your brain uses to learn something is the key to finding this clarity.
Learning is essential in everything we do otherwise we are as good as a standstill rock. Probably even a rock learns something with time and its own experiences. It withers with time, it is drenched when it rains, and it crushes into shards and pieces giving a way to a new stone and then a new rock.
We all say that we learn something, but learning is not just confined to our own perspective of a thing. With every other eye, and with every other hand, the meaning and usage of learning changes.
I am often perplexed to see how varied this learning could be. For example, I may learn to make an origami flower. My perspective of learning it could be home decor. My husband may take it as a creative usage of free time. A visitor may think of it as a nice gift, and use it in that way. Another person might take make it nad use it in a whole different way which I cannot even perceive. With every use case of this product, the creative energy changes too.
When one is aware of the existence of more use cases of a particular learning, it is possible to think out of box when needed. This phrase "Think out of box" I am sure everybody has heard of. And I hope I am able to explain my perception of it.
According to me therefore, learning is one thing. The contemplation over what is learnt, to expand the horizon of its usage, and hence improvement of our daily life is what makes learning worth.
It is easy to say that “you should learn something”. A person might even acknowledge that they need to learn it. But what it takes to learn a thing is the acknowledgement of their need/needs. If a person doesn’t think that they need a particular thing, they will never want to have it. And if they don’t want to have it, they will not indulge their efforts in trying to have it. And in that case, the only thing left with you is your “comfort and no need to learn a thing attitude”. This attitude is good for a virtual world, as in real world the need for continuous learning is more than required.
To be able to learn something is a skill.
There are number of attitudes by which a person learns something:
1) One might just learn something to complete a particular task at that particular moment.
2) One may try to learn something to use the learning for the present task and then to use it for completing this particular task at a later time.
3) Or one may learn something, mull over it, use it now, later, and draw inferences out of this learning so that they extrapolate it in all new activities they try. While this kind of learning is done there is a positive and a negative prospect to it.
i) Positive: you will take less time and less effort to learn anything new, as you would have reference of mistakes and will know the pattern of how your own brain works.
ii) Negative: Our brain processes so many things together that this learning and extrapolation activity might lead you to use it even when you don’t need it.
Therefore it is important to be very careful while developing this skill. Continuous contemplation about your activities and the pattern your brain uses to learn something is the key to finding this clarity.
Learning is essential in everything we do otherwise we are as good as a standstill rock. Probably even a rock learns something with time and its own experiences. It withers with time, it is drenched when it rains, and it crushes into shards and pieces giving a way to a new stone and then a new rock.
We all say that we learn something, but learning is not just confined to our own perspective of a thing. With every other eye, and with every other hand, the meaning and usage of learning changes.
I am often perplexed to see how varied this learning could be. For example, I may learn to make an origami flower. My perspective of learning it could be home decor. My husband may take it as a creative usage of free time. A visitor may think of it as a nice gift, and use it in that way. Another person might take make it nad use it in a whole different way which I cannot even perceive. With every use case of this product, the creative energy changes too.
When one is aware of the existence of more use cases of a particular learning, it is possible to think out of box when needed. This phrase "Think out of box" I am sure everybody has heard of. And I hope I am able to explain my perception of it.
According to me therefore, learning is one thing. The contemplation over what is learnt, to expand the horizon of its usage, and hence improvement of our daily life is what makes learning worth.
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