Learning is the process that keeps us linked between past and future in the present. I identify four reasons why I find learning important and how it impacted my life.
Knowledge production enhances the understanding of inherited issues from the past. Analysing mistakes of our own empowers us with strategies to handle new challenges of the everyday life. We should use what we learn to lay groundwork for coming generations trying to teach them. For instance, studying the history of an event is a vice-versa process between learning from our actions and their repercussions. It enables the awareness for sensitivity towards cultural, political or social problems, which then helps us to define our own opinions. Whenever there is a conflict I analyse step by step where I hesitated. By identifying issue patterns ahead relying on previous experiences, I built up confidence in my gut for another similar situation in the future.
Another benefit I experienced when learning was mental pleasure. Being open to the learning process, means to risk. Whenever we say ´aha´ we experience an excitement in our entire body. But sometimes, we are frustrated encountering limits of any kind, sleep, patience or endurance. With passed deadlines the first challenge is achieved. Usually, we experience fulfilment because learning stimulates our imagination and our spirit feels free to think and create. In contrast, producing similar tasks leads to switching off the brain which then blocks immediately information difficult to understand. Moreover, reading and listening activates all our abilities and even hidden potential. Timed math exercises culminated in training my logical solution finding visible for instance in quicker scheduling or organising daily events.