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There comes a point in life where in a sense you have two divides while learning and growing.

One of which is how we are growing up and the various labels we apply to make sense of everything. Of course this is very helpful at first because you do not have the conceptual idea of your innate self. You gain this through rapidly grasping what is easiest to understand building this foundational knowledge. This would be more of a ego sense of learning due to the fact that we are limited by our surroundings and who we learn from isn’t always optional or optimal to our growth.

The other type delves more into actualization of your own concept of yourself and what interests you more naturally than anything else. This more likely starts to occur as the brain starts to differentiate between what is right and wrong to you. Because instead of purely knowing for example that a teacher is truly knowledgeable, you discover that they are more specialized in particular knowledge sets which can lead to applying that information to others naturally or not.

The second type of what we start to strive for and it can be rather easy to be lead astray by other individual words or concepts. Except all you are doing is adopting their point of view rather than making a conscious effort to understand the information given. We allow the ego which we grow up with to override what is actually a deeper lesson underneath to expand upon.

To go into a different tangent though similar, how do you deal with new information that intrigues you. But you are placing how you take in the information due to how your egotistical role is to them. So going back to the teacher example, a ideal teacher is one who is also learning from the students as well as expanding on their studies. However, when you stop taking in that information because of topics that make one unduly aware of internal flaws. When you react to information in a negative light due to a need to act a certain way, then you reject information which could benefit someone else and change their perspectives. You are not only limiting yourself due to certain roles (mother, teacher, pastor, etc), you are not acting in your best interests of learning as a vulnerable, curious individual who is not settling for a limiting cap of knowledge.

Of course, one cannot just detach entirely from the concepts of those roles. The labels you can remove, but the core keywords that created those phrases can help to take in new knowledge naturally. Take a mother label as an example. If you find a topic that your child is showing you to be fascinating to you as an individual, learning to take in the information without the practice of pretending to like something is a lesson to learn.

Overall, when learning to start to utilize information in a more natural manner to one’s self instead of what we grew up with, then people will naturally flock to those who also share those ideals or ways of learning. This applies not only to friendships and family, but to any form of relationship that one decides to interact in.

This post was originally made Aug 2020


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