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Awaken Your Genius Brain Within
The document discusses the author's experience with learning and how negative perceptions about learning can hinder one's ability to acquire new skills as they age. It emphasizes that everyone is a natural learner and encourages readers to discard unhelpful beliefs instilled by traditional education that frame learning as difficult or intimidating. Ultimately, the author believes that learning can and should be enjoyable, regardless of age.
Awaken Your Genius Brain Within
- 1. Awaken Your NaturalLearner
- 2. I remember along while ago my company was merging with another company.
- 3. A lot ofus were getting the boot, so we were pretty worried.
- 4. The good newswas that we got to take any "approved" training to make it easier to find a new job.
- 5. I thought thatwas kind of cool, but I was also kind of worried.
- 6. I'd been workingin the same lab for the last ten years, and my knowledge was VERY specialized.
- 7. I was afraidof stepping into a classroom and learning something new.
- 8. After all, I'dheard all those stories about how the older you get, the harder it is to learn, etc.
- 9. But what Ifound was totally the opposite.
- 10. At least itcan be.
- 11. When you thinkabout it, it makes total sense.
- 12. It's not likeour brain structure, biology and chemistry suddenly changes as we get older. It's the same brain in your head now that was in there however many years ago you were born.
- 13. Just a bitbigger, and just a LOT more stuff in there.
- 14. Which turns out,is the problem.
- 15. When we gothrough school, we learn a lot of stuff.
- 16. But we alsolearn that learning is hard. Difficult. Frustrating. Scary even.
- 17. I don't knowabout you, but I had some pretty scary teachers in elementary school!
- 18. The truth isthat you ARE a natural learner.
- 19. You were whenyou were born, you are now, and you will be right up until you take your very last breath.
- 20. All you've gotto do is ditch all those "unhelpful" things you learned going through the meat grinder they call an educational system.
- 21. Things like "failureis bad," or "if you don't get it right the first time, you're wrong," or "if you mess up everybody's going to think less of you."
- 22. All that istotal crap. You used to know it. You used to not care if you messed up, or did the wrong thing, or called attention to yourself.
- 23. In fact, youthought it was pretty fun.
- 24. And you candiscover that it still can be pretty fun.
- 25. Just learn howto get rid of all that useless junk.
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