Learn from your Mistakes
Ms. Haiku
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We learn from our mistakes and we learn from the mistakes of others - we are always in a state of learning. Do we ever have the opportunity to progress through life - to be aware of new information - but not learn it? I'm not suggesting that we remain ignorant, but I think "learn" has too much energy.
I just want to know something and move on. Must I learn it first?
I just want to know something and move on. Must I learn it first?
There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
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I do think some people willfully, maybe even subconsciously, refuse to learn. Refuse to open their eyes and/or mind.
Sometimes just the realization of "huh, I didn't know that" is enough. Goes through my mind frequently, that's for sure.
So you learned about pain/attachment and you learned about failure/succeeding and you learned about attachment/now. Can that knowledge be unlearned but still a part of you?
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
- Christopher McCandless
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
I do get what you're saying, but does pain trump pleasure in terms of being in the moment, living it for better or worse, as it is?
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
Thank you.
Learning, to me, is understanding the cause and effect of something and be able to successfully apply it elsewhere. Information can be acquired by our brains, but it won't always be learned and your brain wont then be able to apply it. Knowledge/facts can be acquired and known, but principles, processes, and concepts must be learned.
If you just know something (a fact) and move on, there is no chance for you to apply/correlate/refine that fact to another piece of knowledge that you also know and turn it into something you learned/better understood.
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If we are able to understand or make some useful observations about our experiences, we are able to avoid the unpleasant ones and seek out the more rewarding ones in the future.
I think that's what it means to "learn" from our lives.
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
If you were like me you wouldn't make any mistakes because you would know everything.
Seriously.
It's hard to define in your life at what age you became learned.
At some point you will know and will share advice with others.
If that shit makes sense.
I win
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-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
This, for me, in its essence, is what learning (from anywhere, anyhow, any way I choose) is.
Clarity, exhaling, green.
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All cool comments. I'm learning from you all. . .
I'm gaining a new perspective - applying new information to existing ideas to see if ideas still work.
I understand.
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
When I was young I remember I thought people who had lots of education knew so very much and yet once I was very well educated and worked with other very educated people I realized that we all only had a depth of knowledge for a VERY NARROW part of our field. It was enlightening. You can get 10 professors in a room and they each have a different little bag of knowledge that covers their narrow little specialty!
And, I realized it's a rare person who is broad and deep. (!!!)
It happens with new trends in music.
I think that is what "understanding" involves. I gain knowledge until I have the chance to abandon learning, and then I become inspired with what I know to create something new.
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
Also, any of us who have had teenagers in our lives know that they truly believe they have all the knowledge in the world, haha!
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird