The Learning Mind: How to Stop Fighting What You Don’t Know
To learn you must unlearn first

“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.
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