The Learning Mind: How to Stop Fighting What You Don’t Know

To learn you must unlearn first

Developing a learning mind is a choice. Pic by Katerina Radvanska

“Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill.” — Tony Buzan

Life has been easy to me. At least, that’s what people think.

It has not always been like that though.

There was a point in my life when I stopped learning. I was comfortable sticking to what I was good at rather than challenging myself.

One day my three-year-old son sat in front of a keyboard and started playing. He was having fun. It made me realize how adults panic when faced with a piano for the first time.

The only music we play is our fear in the sound of excuses.

Saying that we don’t know how to do something is our easy way out. That’s how I behaved too when confronted with anything new.

Life became easier to me when I stopped fighting what I didn’t know.

The Learning Mind

“The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.” — Brian Herbert

Developing a learning mind is a c…