When we’re born, we come into this world like a new personal computer. Our operating systems are in place and functioning, but we don’t yet have any applications downloaded. As we go through life we are constantly, often unconsciously, downloading various applications from the environment around us. We are little biological learning machines. But what are we learning, how efficiently, effectively, and how consciously are we learning?
In this, so called Post Truth World where we are saturated by social media, filled with influencers who sometimes present content of dubious veracity, and where mainstream media and politicians spin a message to suit their own agenda, knowledge is the antidote.
You may want to learn because you have qualifications that you want to get. Or you may have children who are learning. Or you may just like learning for the sake of it. Or maybe you follow Gandhi’s instruction to, “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Whatever your reason for learning may be, my intention is that by listening to this episode you can learn something new about learning.
