Learning never Ends

Back when I was a student in school, secondary school to be precise, I used to think about learning all day when school closed or when prep was over. But lately adulthood has been showing me otherwise. I have been learning that there is more to learn, and it can take place at any given time. It is no longer a thing that happens in a classroom.

Every single limestone requires some form of learning to have taken place, either in the past or it will in the future. A new career part require you to learn new things you were not used to. A different stage in life needs you to step up to new challenges. Even down to the point that it will require you to change and forsake the old you. It even goes down to age and status. A new age comes with its responsibilities; a change in your social status could bring about meeting new people and socializing with them. All this comes with learning, which will take place in different forms as you get older. You cannot tell when it will take place, but this is where I agree with Jay Shetty's advice to keep your mind open. It is the fastest way to learn.

Even though learning never ends, some limitations can affect one's learning process, and the biggest of them all is getting too comfortable. Comfort is the limitation to learning, and the kind of comfort I am talking about is the comfort that comes with thinking you know it all. I have seen a lot of people fall for this, and if I am being honest, I have fallen victim to this as well. Here is the thing that comes with acting like you know it all: you become a difficult person to work with, and you miss out on the knowledge that could be learnt. I remember what it is like when one is difficult to work with; people try to avoid working with them because of the fear of being overly corrected by them or micromanaged. My friend told me a couple of stories about how difficult her boss can be at work.

In my opinion, what people who get comfortable with the fact that they know it all experience the nuances that come from what they already know. In chess, you could play a particular opening or set of moves for a long time, and you have good records of wins, but if you fail to stay open-minded to the nuances that can appear in this opening you have been playing for all, you miss out on i,t and when the losses start to roll in, ,when your opening gets outdated, it might be too late. This is the same in any other thing. You could know a lot about a specific thing simply because you have been doing it for a long time, but that does not mean you know it all, it just means you know more and not all. So stay open minded and share what you know, you can never know what you could learn from the next person. This is why the best part of a chess game for me is after the game where I get to analyse the game with my opponent on what we did right and what we did wrong. Learning never ends, just know that.

_{I am @samostically, a chess player and writer. I love to share the experience I have gained from different battles over the 64 squares and the knowledgeable insights from books I have read. But most importantly, I am a Midnight Owl and I founded the community Midnight Letters.}

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