Learning Or Not

In our younger stages of life we tend to be taught the things needed for the future. Everything is made easy after the first time of learning it. I think that the author is trying to tell us that learning can be hard but altering what we had learned is even harder. I understand what the author is trying to say in the terms of learning is a hard thing, but to re-learn something a different way is even harder. When I first learned how to tie my shoes it was hard, but after doing it over and over again that it became easy. If I were to change the way I tie my shoes it would take some time to get use to it and would be harder than learning it the first time.

The author also talks about two ways of learning in this chapter. One of them is to learn things mindful and the other is to learn things mindlessly. I think she means when someone learns something in a mindful way they tend to be open minded to others way of what was learned. If someone were to learn something in a mindlessly way they would be stubborn and not be open to suggestions of change. These ways of learning also change our attitudes towards someone or something. Like in my high school chemistry class I learned how to solve problems through cancellation and if someone were to try and teach me different I would gladly listen. This chapter was one of common sense that the author wrote about, and I hope she only wrote about in a way to remind us about the early stages of learning.

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