adamchalmers on Nostr: If you aren’t learning you’re stagnating. Life is one great opportunity to learn ...

If you aren’t learning you’re stagnating.

Life is one great opportunity to learn new skills, understand new concepts, and create new ways of being and relating. More so now than ever before.

For thousands of years you would have been restricted to the information you could access via listening, reading and apprenticing under a master. If you were lucky enough to be taught to read, then you also had to access written material. You could only listen when someone was willing to teach and you had the available time to be attentive. Finding a master to teach you was difficult and most teachers were specialists who could teach a lot on a niche but little on anything else. In other words, living in any period prior to the last 30 years was rather restrictive upon your ability to learn consistently, and should you have been born in a place without basic education in reading and writing then it was even worse. Education was a true luxury of the wealthy, the highborn, and males. If you were positioned otherwise in society, you would get so far and no further.

This is no longer the case. People in developing nations now have access to 24-hour information through the internet, online libraries, YouTube and large language models like Chat-GPT. These are free and available for learning audibly and visually, and every day more tertiary institutions are opening their courses for one and all. Even in a menial labour job it is now possible to put in ear buds and learn entirely new ways of thinking and behaving as you work. For more people than ever education is not a privilege but a right, so what humanity now faces is not access to learning but the desire to learn. Curiosity is lacking.

You must cling desperately to your love of learning, the voracious curiosity of your youth, and the passion to understand. Do not allow the simplicity of much of the world’s noise to cloud your senses and dull your mental faculties. More than at any time in history before us things are moving fast, and many are being left behind. Learning is itself a skill and the more you absorb the better at it you become. To be a master learner is to thrive in a world of rapidly evolving opportunities, and for the avid self-educator the time is ripe to excel in the field. 

Prosperity can be defined as the ability to solve problems, and we have plenty to choose from. As you learn your mind becomes more plastic, open and responsive. This type of mind is broad and deep, it is expansive and can see things from an interconnected view. Your mind when exposed to breadth and depth becomes a master problem solving computer that will aid you in your pursuit of prosperity and meaning.

Do not wallow in the mire of stagnation of the mind. Learn every day, across a wide range of topics. Think like a polymath and allow your intellect to grow and flourish under the education of an in-exhaustible flow of high-quality information. It is the time to learn, and you have every tool at your disposal. Use them.

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