We, human
beings have the ability to explore, to investigate, to contemplate and to sift
out what we may consider to be the truth of the things that surround us in this
life. We, human beings have the ability to imitate, to learn things from what
goes on around us, to retain, for a little time or more, from others’
experiences or from that of our own, or from what is piercingly flashed
repeatedly into our minds. We know, perhaps a little more about our own
experiences than that of the others, because others’ experiences are formed
when the others were present, not us. In ultimate, analysis, we have infinite
permutation and combination of what we attentively learn or happen to learn
passively, accidentally or are forced to learn circumstantially.
Whatever we learn in whichever
way, is stored in different locations of our minds, making it very difficult to
predict what our minds would release when we need to recall the most
appropriate knowledge from our ‘knowledge-bank’, so-much-so that we are just
unaware of the probability of being able to recall the right knowledge we need
to tackle the situation we are forced to face.
When we explore, submitting
ourselves to the world around us, we, in fact, become prone to jump from one
idea to another. In other words, we wander horizontally without giving enough
time to penetrate deep into one single idea. What we learn, then, is shallow;
what we retain is clustered, not pointedly sharp, thereby making the very
process of learning through experiencing less effective.
As against this, if we prevent
wanderings of the unstable mind and fix our mind to one idea for exploration;
we learn more, we retain it in a manner that ‘expeditious’ recall of the ‘right’
solution is more probable, and, above all, we make it possible for us to learn
through experiencing. The beauty of this process is that we learn from our own
experiences, and, not from those of the others.
Albert Einstein once said, “It’s
not that I’m smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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