Learn Something New Everyday

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

-Mahatma Gandhi

Most of us have a couple of areas in our life that drive and strive to know well. The primary thing about our job and a hobby or both. Sometimes we know what we know, but we do not know what we do not know. It is therefore advisable to learn something about everything and everything about something. If you do not realize, you perish. If you learn new things, you can teach new things. If you do not learn new things, how long you can teach old things repeatedly. Can you remove darkness with darkness? It is the ray of light that expels darkness. Hate somebody continuously, and you will be hated forever. It is the love that can finish your hates.

The prettiest thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you. It is stored in your brain, and it is your private property forever. Think how painful it could be to have a 10% wealth tax for what you possess in your brain? In fact, we are blessed to learn anything anywhere, and there is no limit on that. So, you can learn as much as you can.

Do Not Be Afraid to Be Wrong

You may always commit some mistake when you learn new things. In fact, go and commit some mistakes to remember things more deeply and understand better. For example, while coding for your program in my module, I faced more than a dozen of errors when compiled before execution. But it was always version one. Several attempts were eliminated with several attempts, and I jumped with joy when the program was successfully executed. The same thing happened in my job, in sports, swimming, cycling, running at cross country, and running a marathon.

You Can Learn at Any age

Generally, it is believed that learning is possible at school or college days only. But it is a myth. It is also commonly thought that there is no time later on in life to learn things. You can learn anything at any time. Some people laughed in my office when I was learning and applying typing techniques with speed later. But it is the outcome of the same learning that I can present a book every month to the world. One of my friends burst into laughing when recently, after my 60, I took a course on Photoshop even I had uploaded more than one hundred videos on my YouTube channel. It is never too late to learn anything, and no subject is too outdated to learn unless and until it does not lead to your ultimate goal. I had learned to swim at the age of 16 years, but my relatives surprised me when I learn SCUBA diving in the deep water of sea at the age of 58.

Wide Range of Subjects

It will have been a situation with mercy if you are restricted by some authority or a law across the country that if anybody learns more than six things, it will be a punishable offense. So to narrow down your learning to the area of specialization day by day and week by week. It will be exaggerated, but I can learn every hour of the day if you want precisely to get legendary in your field. Psychologically speaking, the mind is not always ready to accept or adapt the changes quickly and frequently to the new situation. Still, you got to make a habit, and ultimately a habit will form you. Once you have succeeded, especially in unfamiliar situations, it will just feed as innovation to hundreds of individuals, thereby thinking creatively and providing examples to follow your pathway. It will impress everybody around you and deepen your own character and make you more confident. So, make your life worth living by learning new things.

Barriers To Learn New Things

Everybody wants to learn things, but everybody can not because there are internal and external factors responsible for hindrances.

A)   Internal Factors

1.      Mental or Physical State

You are less interested in violence happening around your city than the pain you face in one of your teeth. My friend was not interested in learning gaming skills as his grandmother was seriously ill.

2.     Fear of Failure

One of my close relatives did not learn to drive throughout his life because he thought he might meet with an accident while driving in heavy traffic and invite disaster.

3.     Confidence Level

You cannot jump in the swimming pool as you lack confidence. Likewise, people never attempt to speak in public even they have good oratory but lack the confidence to appear in front of a mass or gathering.

4.     Fear to Embrace Change

Most of my friends did not accept the change in the working environment; even experts had designed new models. Instead, they wanted to stick to their old patterns. For example, I saw people working in the same bank branch for a couple of decades and never opted to change the place due to fear of embracing the change.

B)   External Factors

The external environment is equally responsible for not adopting learning, such as the following.

1.      Environment

If the climatic condition is inadequate, you cannot develop certain sports or athletic abilities. Therefore, our coaching camp was shifted to a newer place where temperature and humidity matched suitable for the workouts.

2.     Bad Experience

You might be hesitant to learn horse riding again if you were thrown from the horseback when it becomes hostile.

3.     Lack of Innovation

The rigid unprofessional old style of teaching methodology may not imbibe a pleasant experience in the youth today. They may always want to have the latest technology in their learnings.

4.     Unwilling to Unlearn

My grandfather used to tell the story of a marriage. There was a marriage ceremony in India where the bride and groom take seven rounds around the fire. The father of the groom had a tamed cat. He hid the cat underneath a basket through which the cat cannot come out but breathe. After 20 years, the groom's son was also getting married, and somebody said, “First hide the cat!” Again after the next 20 years, his grandchildren were getting married, but there was no cat nearby. So, the marriage was canceled as there was no cat available. The cat was hidden because it may not come on the way to the bride and groom when they were taking seven rounds around the fire as it is believed that when a cat crosses the path, it is thought to be a bad omen. So, unlearning unwanted things are also necessary to learn new things.

Remedies To Update Learning

We cannot keep the space with the time if we are not actively participating and keeping pace with the technology.

1.      Repetition Is the mother of Learning

You cannot do a particular thing, and there is no shortcut for learning new things or new learning. For instance, you have to practice hours together for learning typing, swimming, cycling, driving, or boating. Moreover, things are unknown unless it achieves auto-pilot mode or stored in the subconscious mind. For instance, you are sometimes not conscious of applying a break or pushing the accelerator in traffic when driving.

2.     Follow the news to keep pace with current events

The media can be newspaper, radio, television, but it may help keep a good pace with current events or affairs. If you are not keeping pace with the current happenings, you may be thrown out like a wooden log in the river.

3.     Read books and articles or blogs

Reading is one of the most effective ways to learn new things. Many multimillionaires have explored the hidden potentials and gifted inventions and discoveries after reading books and articles.

4.     Explore the internet to the fullest

The Internet has endless resources for learning. The abundance of information is increasing daily, and there is no limit to learning from online sites. There are thousands of institutes on specific education. Join the courses and learn on a daily basis.

5.     Learn, implement and teach

When you have learned specific skills or hacks, apply them in your daily life and teach them to the target audience so that they are better retained in your mind and may be beneficial to the community, and the whole process may also become the source of income.

Key Take Away

1.       To live a life without continuous learning is perishable status.

2.      Continuous learning is self-motivated persistence in acquiring knowledge to reach the fullest potential of an individual.

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