2. You Will Learn Lessons
You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called Life. Each day in this school, you will have the opportunity to learn lessons - you may like the lesson or think them irrelevant and stupid.
In doing my preliminary research on this subject I thought I would Google “learning tools”. I found lists of software and social media “tools” but nothing that deals with how a human being can learn. What state of mind do we have to achieve in order to to be able to learn?
I confess, I was hoping to find elements such as : objectivity, observation, comparison, research and evaluation. So I decided it may have been the type of search I was doing that was inadequate (see I was learning!) so I decided to inquire about “How we learn”. That yielded better results. Scientific American (one of my favorite publications) has an interesting article on the subject that indicates that the fact that we are writing less and less with a pen and paper, our relationship with words and language is changing. So is our relationship to communication changing too? Communication remains an important way to learn be it verbal or written. In our process it is said there are four stages to learning:
- Stage 1 - The Novice, unconscious and incompetent
- Stage 2 - The Apprentice, conscious and incompetent
- Stage 3 - The Journeyman, conscious and competent
- Stage 4 - The Master, unconscious and competent
Now this tidy little list has surely got many of you thinking about where you are situated and possibly even how could The Master be unconscious. I imagine where we are depends on the situation and the moment. Moreover I think it is important to be able to separate ourselves from our emotional reactions in order to observe what is truly there and therefore be able to learn.
Life is for learning everyday. So breathe, observe and think about things a little. You might just learn something about yourself.
Namaste!
Bianca
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