What learning does to us?
We start with the assumption that we are zero. We show that we are ready to be moulded any which ways it takes to learn the particular art. We become acceptable to criticism and appreciation from the teacher and the world around. We become fragile to slow grasping and stagnant learning. And in the end when we achieve what we aimed for, all these stages in between are hardly remembered. The joy of learning makes those stages insignificant which actually were the learning curves that didn't just teach us the art but revealed our fears, strengths and inspirational moments. We need to open ourselves and grow sensitive to the process of learning as it shows how we treat ourselves throughout the journey. It carves out the cowardice in us when at certain point we decide to back out, it reveals courage in us when after many falls and backing out attempts, we still hang on and the strength is revealed when hanging on is not enough and we push ourselves hard to excel in the art.
But this isn't it. This learning process isn't limited to personal realisation and growth but it keeps a check on our social behavioural patterns. While learning something; we meet people who have already mastered it, people who are ready to share their learning and their weaknesses, people who would just boost about their achievements and make it look like a simplest task that we should have learnt earlier in age, people who have spent ages trying to learn, have failed but are still hopeful and haven't given up yet and some who have given up and are disappointed with themselves or with those who taught them. Dealing with all sort of people and understanding what to and what not to grasp from them is itself a learning. And the way we deal with them improves only when we are aware of this learning process and conscious towards the changes within and around.
Then what goes wrong? Why and when does our progress start deteriorating? Why does the growth stop?
When we are juvenile, we are constantly learning and so we possess all those godly characters of humbleness, innocence, curiosity, awe and transparency. As we become adults and our physical growth stops, we happen to discontinue our mental and spiritual growth as well. We consider what we know as ultimate knowledge and start replacing humbleness with arrogance, innocence with cunningness, curiosity with indifference, awe with inertia and transparency with rigidity.
And there we go wrong. Human mind has no limitations of aging and dying, it is we who impose these limitations. We become the hindrance to our own growth, our own evolution.
To keep evolving, to keep growing we should keep learning something new every year, every month and every moment of our lives.
We start with the assumption that we are zero. We show that we are ready to be moulded any which ways it takes to learn the particular art. We become acceptable to criticism and appreciation from the teacher and the world around. We become fragile to slow grasping and stagnant learning. And in the end when we achieve what we aimed for, all these stages in between are hardly remembered. The joy of learning makes those stages insignificant which actually were the learning curves that didn't just teach us the art but revealed our fears, strengths and inspirational moments. We need to open ourselves and grow sensitive to the process of learning as it shows how we treat ourselves throughout the journey. It carves out the cowardice in us when at certain point we decide to back out, it reveals courage in us when after many falls and backing out attempts, we still hang on and the strength is revealed when hanging on is not enough and we push ourselves hard to excel in the art.
But this isn't it. This learning process isn't limited to personal realisation and growth but it keeps a check on our social behavioural patterns. While learning something; we meet people who have already mastered it, people who are ready to share their learning and their weaknesses, people who would just boost about their achievements and make it look like a simplest task that we should have learnt earlier in age, people who have spent ages trying to learn, have failed but are still hopeful and haven't given up yet and some who have given up and are disappointed with themselves or with those who taught them. Dealing with all sort of people and understanding what to and what not to grasp from them is itself a learning. And the way we deal with them improves only when we are aware of this learning process and conscious towards the changes within and around.
Then what goes wrong? Why and when does our progress start deteriorating? Why does the growth stop?
When we are juvenile, we are constantly learning and so we possess all those godly characters of humbleness, innocence, curiosity, awe and transparency. As we become adults and our physical growth stops, we happen to discontinue our mental and spiritual growth as well. We consider what we know as ultimate knowledge and start replacing humbleness with arrogance, innocence with cunningness, curiosity with indifference, awe with inertia and transparency with rigidity.
And there we go wrong. Human mind has no limitations of aging and dying, it is we who impose these limitations. We become the hindrance to our own growth, our own evolution.
To keep evolving, to keep growing we should keep learning something new every year, every month and every moment of our lives.
