What do you need to learn?
What do YOU need to learn?
What do you NEED to learn?
What do you need to LEARN?
The topic we discussed in my regular (learning) programme was Learning - an specifically the question What do you need to learn?
Already the way you have read the question is an interesting learning point in itself. How did you read it?
My read was ‘What do I NEED so that I can learn’?
But for others it was more about what they felt they needed to learn (about).
And already we are learning.
It is a big question to sit with. But perhaps one we should spend more time with.
Because, and this is only my view, we are learning all the time, every day, in every thing we do. But whether our learning converts to change, action or embodiment (as my colleague so beautifully referred) is a whole different matter.
That lead us to exploring the difference of knowledge and learning. Can you know but not learn? We seem to know so much in this World and yet do we learn?
And then we explored the thin line between learning and success. We want to learn, but why? And what happens when we learn but feel we fail? Can you fail at learning?
When our education system teaches us that learning is graded that means learning carries success, but also failure. So does that give us a fear of learning? What happens if you have learnt but fail to deliver?
The person who knows how to do something but doesn’t have the talent / encouragement / luck to do it - are they are failure?
Quite a ramble today.
But feels like an important one.
Because our relationship with learning might be the thing that is holding us back.
We are fearing learning something new because what if we fail?
What if we learn something and then we don’t know what to do with it?
But what if learning is just continuous moments in our life where we get a chance to see something differently, acquire new knowledge, create new insights. What if learning has no success criteria? Then how would that feel?
What are your thoughts?
What do you need to learn?
eleanor