Personal - #501-#36-What would you do differently from your childhood to your “older” age?

We still have to work and think to survive and try to better our standard of living, but unfortunately……

We tend to stop “thinking”.
We tend to stop “considering” alternatives, “considering” new ways to conduct ourselves, “considering” new personal strategies, “considering” new and more productive and more personally successful ways to communicate and spend our lives.
We tend to rely on what we are currently familiar with.
We tend to lean on the lessons “already” learned rather than to constantly arouse our interest in finding new ways, new thoughts.
We stop “thinking”.
We spend most of our time “doing”!!
We spend most of our energies “acquiring”.

Where does “learning” fit in?

Well, what is the process of “learning”? …. How do we “learn”?
Unless you cope with the answer to these questions, “learning” is meaningless!

“Learning” incorporates……
a) Physically “Experiencing”
b) Mentally “Experiencing”
c) An exchange of “language” (which also means the use of “mutual definitions and understandings”)
d) The personal interest, motivation and ability to absorb and retain the “learning”
e) The desire to use the learning
So you see, “learning” is not so simple after all!!

What would you do differently from your childhood to your “older” age?

You could spend more time in “learning”. You could live an even better life if you could “learn” more!
Asking a “good” question is on par with giving a “good” answer!
Ask, ask, ask!! Everyone has an answer at a given moment in time. How can you “learn” something new if you don’t “ask”?
Maybe the answer is something you can’t believe. So what? It means that you’ve “learned” about something you don’t believe. You’re a “winner” either way. You can’t lose!!
In your childhood, you felt deficient somehow if you had to “ask”. Now that you are growing older, “asking” becomes a pleasant prospect. You want to “learn”. You’ve lost the feeling of being “deficient”. You don’t need to know everything in the world! Maybe there’s a better way, an easier way.

That’s what you could do differently in your old age!!