Re-Learning Learning

LEARNING is the essential core of the human experience.

Yet, there are many barriers to learning.
One of the most common barriers to learning is our inability to admit and accept when “I DON’T KNOW”.

Especially as adults, we fall into the trap of this idea that there are certain things we’re “supposed to know.” Thus, we navigate the world acting or pretending to know that which we really don’t, because we have not yet learned it.

Learning is not something only children do. We are learning our entire lives.

In fact, our educational systems here in America, I would assert, are not the most conducive for learning. They are designed for standardizing and industrializing civilization. Memorize information, recall memory on tests and exams, get “good” grades, graduate, get a job… and so on. It’s a means to a specific end result.

Majority of traditional academic institutions do not teach us HOW to learn—or more importantly, to explore HOW WE learn.

When we RE-LEARN learning itself, new possibilities are revealed. Befriending the process of learning begets innovation.

The first step to befriending learning is our willingness to embrace the not knowing and accept what we don’t know—with curiosity, not resignation.

Contrary to popular belief, knowledge is not power. Knowledge is potential.

Embodied learning is power. What we apply, integrate, practice, and embody is our power.

We call this… MASTERY. The lifelong commitment to being a student in any chosen domain. Mastery is not an arrival to some destination. Mastery is the journey itself. It is a process.

When we are curious, we innovate and generate portals to new worlds.

Imagine the world we would live in if we ALL opened our willingness and expanding our capacities to learn.

I truly believe… The most INTIMATE thing we will ever do in life is LEARN.

And in the words of my master teacher and mentor…

“The moment we stop learning, we stop loving.”
—Bettie J. Spruill