ANYONE CAN LEARN!

 

On learning:

Since the time we are born, we are taught one skill after another. The one thing that everyone forgets to teach us is how to learn!

That’s something most of us have learned by ourselves. Or one should say how our brain learned to learn.

Just as the days of infancy are over and the world decides it should teach us, learning becomes a matter of need and not desire. The brain learns its first big lesson “you better learn or else!”

Learning thus becomes a survival need than a festivity, celebration, wonderment! Our ability to learn out of joy and pleasure and our spontaneity is lost and is replaced by fear, pain, and punishment.

A child never learns to walk because someone taught it how to. It learns to walk because it wants to walk.

A child learns to talk because it finds it fascinating, all the conversations that happen all around him. It tries to speak on its own for the sheer joy of learning something new; for the sense of achievement, a reason for attention and approval; until someone decides to teach. Teach because the child should know.

Simply put, learning for most of us is a painful experience. We have if you will pardon my saying so, become unnatural learners, living with a learning disability. A painfully negative approach called “Oh God why me?” “Why should I learn? How much more? Till When? What’s the use?” “Will I be able to learn?” With all these thoughts hovering in the head, most don’t learn without a push and shove.

So what’s wrong with that? That is the way the world has been.

Well, we lost ourselves! Also lost our ability to think! We have landed inside a box and have believed it to be the beginning and end of everything.

Inside this box, we sit and invent new terms and techniques and feel proud of it. Every time we know something others don’t know, we feel a sense of greatness take over us. It is like we first give up our legs and then make a very good crutch and feel very proud of it! Compare each others’ crutches and feel good that mine’s better!

We are learning, learning a lot because there is this compelling need to survive.

The more we learn the less learned we feel until we compare ourselves to someone who doesn’t seem to know as much.

We forget that we have limited our horizons in the box. That childhood game that was played on us, to drive us to learn, by proving that we are better than the other kid, takes the better of us for all our lives and we don’t know any other way to feel worthy.

Therefore, our knowledge is often reduced to cheap exhibitionism while the truth is that we don’t know how to use our knowledge!

What have we lost? Practically speaking what’s the loss? Well, the loss is that most human brains don’t think or learn without a crisis. We have primarily remained in the era of ‘necessity is the mother of invention’ and not evolved beyond it.

What’s the difference between an Indian and an English man? The English used steam and invented steam engines and Indians invented puttu and idly! Such inventive brains! These were brains that didn’t think to improve on something that was already there. Not a better design which is need-based but created a whole new possibility!

Because human brains don’t learn without a crisis or a survival need, so we create a crisis around us all the time and feel great that we solved it using our brains! We only remember that we have a brain to use when in trouble.

And from all our learning experiences, most of us remember the ones we had fun learning. Things we learned playfully. The rest may come to us when in crisis. The joyous learning is so few that we have invented a safe name for it and dream of taking them up someday when we have time. We call them our hobbies!

What am I driving at? That it is possible to reinstate the same joy into the whole process of learning.

There is enough scientific evidence that the human brain can be programmed to change its orientation towards anything, including learning.

Our endeavor is to alter this perception, the association of pain to learning, making the journey fun and interesting.

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