What we are told to learn doesn’t translate into mental growth or enlighten the undermined thoughts behind its mere act. Learning.
What I wanted to convey in this post is that the act of learning that we subconsciously only transcribe into the act of studying - the well-correlated, highly structured academic knowledge that superiorly fails at inducing the right thought processes.
When we were young - the age of exploration and awe - we were taught to stay inside the box - like a frog inside a well - diminishing the abundance of curiosity and excitement within us which silently sleeps behind our minds, crying to wake up.
We were taught to behave a certain way, act a certain way, and even think a certain way. All this is taught to us by the self-proclaimed masters of the world who still have yet to create reasons to justify the superstitions they have borrowed from their ancestors.
The masters suppress the developing curious mind just out of the fear of a hard life that they propose an exploring mind will attract.
These masters don’t realize life is suffering. Untouched.
Looking at learning as an art, in which the fundamental desired outcome is to produce new and the right thoughts in the developing minds, is tragically disrupted by academics.
The curious mind forgets to think.
The right thoughts, are “What made me learn it faster than before?”, “What should I change to help me learn faster?”, “How can I make it more efficient?”, are the thoughts that demand an answer from our brains, that make us critically think about the problem and the solution, which makes our mind think better.
To create the right thoughts, what we learn is more crucial than producing the desired results themselves.
The right thoughts only emerge when you learn something that resonates.
The right thoughts, the actually needful, can only be cultivated from learning something that we love. Only that will unlock the new thought processes which gives the desired mental growth, to think the right way and about the right things.
But our system - which clashes our brains with disgusting topics of study - suppresses the producer of the right thoughts.
Yes, many people are creators of great thoughts and they only come when they immerse themselves in learning the right things. The things that resonate.
For people who disagree the knowledge as disgusting produces the right thoughts and thrive.
Only learning what resonates will produce the needful outcomes that empower us to ask the right questions, solve real problems, and thrive better in the world.
The ones who thrive are learning and will continue to learn what resonates. That’s how they make the world better than they once found it.
Those become the history-makers and the true role models of the modern world.
Hope you enjoyed this piece of essay!
I wrote this a long time ago when I was in my 12th grade, absolutely hating on my studies!
Not today😅
That’s it guys! Hope you had a great time reading and if you’ve reached the end through the kinda-cringe topic, I appreciate you!
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Jasir Ibrahim