Have you ever wondered why it seems difficult to study and/or remember
what you have studied. One reason for this is the confused mind. You see, our
minds treat information it gets in a similar way. When you ‘learned’ something
but you tried to shrug it off later, your mind will tend to treat other
information in that way too. For example, you learned that indiscriminate
throwing of garbage is among the major cause of flooding yet you habitually
litter anywhere for the sake of convenience, you are training your brain to
never mind the ‘important’ information you have been learning. With your brain already
accustomed to such way of treating information, don’t be surprised when your
brain also ‘forgets’ the information you want to remember in the courses you
are studying. You have ‘trained’ your brain to forget or to ignore important
information so that’s what it does!
So, what’s the better way of learning? Value what you are learning. Stephen Covey puts it this way: “To know and not do, is really not to know. To learn and not to do is not to learn.”
When you believe that a thing (or information) is important, learn it. Otherwise, just ignore it! Your time (and effort) is too precious to spend on unimportant matters. Assimilate what you are learning, make them integral to you. As such, your ‘new’ learning will become etched in your mind. And when the important matters have already become integrated in you, you free that part of your brain tasked to hold new information thereby making it ready to learn anew. If you want to become an engineer, learn engineering; if you want to become a teacher, learn teaching. Nevertheless, don’t forsake your humanity because you are first of all a human being: ethics above knowledge!
In other words, be congruent in your thoughts, words and actions. This way, your mind and your body will in no time be confused because one is the same as the other. This can also be called focus, an awesome means of power [light when focused becomes LASER] and a very potent way of making life simple… because it is also being true to yourself. So, what would you do?
What do you want to BE? and, will you?
~ Sir Magi
