I don’t learn what is forced

I believe that we come together to learn from one another, but not to teach one another.

So why is it that I am always encountering (colliding with) people who want to teach me, or someone else, a lesson?  Who put them in charge of my learning? Of what I should know? Why do they believe they have the only way that their knowledge should be viewed and the rest of us are wrong if we don’t align?

Why are we sometimes SO afraid of someone who doesn’t view the world through our eyes? As if anyone ever could!

I am a teacher and yet, I cannot make you learn. I can develop some activities.  I can create a situation.  But I cannot force you to learn.  What’s more significant, I cannot force you to learn something, in a certain way, and to then believe that it is the one and only way to view the knowledge.

For now, I’m going to stay away from formal education and consider the magical world of diet and weight loss.  The business is booming!  How many diet/weight-loss experts and guru’s are thriving?  They are promoting their own perspective on the right way to stay healthy, the right way to lose weight.  I don’t see them spending their time criticizing one another, rather they promote their brand.  And does their brand work?  For some, yes.  For some, no.  For some it works and then it doesn’t.  Does that mean the message was bad?  Probably not.

Each insight we gain has to mean something to us.  If it doesn’t, then it won’t (mean anything)…and it won’t change us.  Change doesn’t have to be huge, change can be that we understand some information in a way that we didn’t before.  But information that means something is far more powerful than information that doesn’t but its been forced upon us…you’ll learn this or else!  Those are the diets that don’t work.  Those are the trainers we dread visiting.

How is that environment good for anyone?

What about being in a place where I want to share and you want to inquire?  What if I want you to succeed, in the way that feels best to you?  And in return, what if you want me to succeed to?

I think that our learning process needs to stand tall and be something that we are proud of!  I don’t want to create a product, I want to support a learner!  And I want that learner to be proud of all he accomplishes!