Barriers in Learning

By design we all are learning machines. This means we learn continuously. However we choose to learn something and not learn something else. Therefore even if 5 different people experience the same situation their learning is quite different.

For example, if 5 different people meet a car accident, the learning of all of them might be different.

1. Someone would continue to drive the same way because it wasn't his mistake at all.

2. Someone else might decide to stop driving to avoid an accident.

3. Someone else might decide to drive with more caution.

4. Someone might decide to buy a safer car.

5. Someone might conclude that he or she is not good at driving in certain traffic conditions.

When we learn a particular subject language or Math, we are supposed to learn something specific and the learnings similar to above are not considered as learnings.

Therefore, people say that someone is not learning or don't understand a particular subject or topic. Sometimes it also indicates lack of interest.

We all face certain barriers in learning and eliminating such barriers accelerate our learning. Let's see few of them now.

Fear of failure

Sometimes we don't attempt because we are scared to fail. Even though this barrier is often observed in corporate environments, it is also observed in ages where we decide not to fail in any situation(teens).

Failures are part of our life and it's almost impossible not to fail at all. The earlier we learn this the quicker we learn more. What is important is what do we learn from a failure.

Care for People's Opinion

In hindi there is an interesting quote.

"दुनिया का सबसे बडा रोग, क्या कहेंगे लोग"

Sometimes we are too much concerned about what someone would say or comment on us. This has become very popular in social networking.

However people forget things too fast. Similarity we meet many and different people very often. So our world changes a lot. Finally very few people are concerned about us. So other people's opinion is very short lived and trivial in our growth.

'I know' approach

Sometimes we tend to ignore the information that reaches to us because we think we know or the knowledge is trivial.

We can always analyse the information once we receive it and understand it thoroughly. Later we always have a choice to apply it or to ingore it. However ignoring before understanding keeps us away from the learning.

It makes sense for all of us to think about our learning barriers and understand them well because eliminating learning barriers accelerate our learning.

Happy learning time.