Learning season

 “If you go for the earning early, you stop the learning. The moment you stop learning is when you decide that you have made enough and don’t need to learn anymore.”

Want to be more humble?

Repeat this phrase:

I know nothing.

Lately, my cognitive bias has made me lose track of how little I do know. Learning makes you feel powerful, it makes you feel like you know it all, but in reality, you know so little.

Let’s take a look at an effect that describes this perfectly.

Definition:

Dunning-Kruger effect

A cognitive bias whereby people with low ability, expertise, or experience regarding a certain type of task or area of knowledge tend to overestimate their ability or knowledge.

As soon as you start to get a grasp on something, you feel like you know it all. The problem with this is that as soon as we feel like we know it all, we shut down our ability to learn more.

At some point in early adulthood, we all make a crucial decision. The decision: education or money. Do I want to make money now or do I want to learn more?

We live in a world of instant gratification, so the obvious answer for most people is money. They select the money now and tell the world that they are content with that amount of money forever. They feel like that is what they worked all their life for, so that’s the end.

On the other hand, the people that select education continue to build their skills and develop more value. They stay open to learning more and accept low paying jobs in exchange for high value skills.

In the long run, who wins?

The learner or the earner.

The learner always comes out on top. As soon as we say we have learned enough, a ceiling is created. Once this ceiling has been created, there is no more progress.

I want to continue to grow. You want to continue to grow. To do this, we must always be open to learning more. We never know everything.

Continue telling yourself you know nothing, and maybe someday you’ll know everything.

It’s always learning season.

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~Thank you for reading. My goal is to help teach others ways to better themselves while doing the same for myself. This is The Exploration.~