Brainstormin's

Sorry about this, my comp was being weird.

Brainstorming

I learn best when my mind and body are free to navigate with the vessels of my thoughts. As socially aware beings, we are cartographers. We learn through pain, when something is taken from us; without loss, we never learn to cherish what we have. We learn to let go of illusions, drop broken ties. Our hearts and minds expand through knowledge and exploration, and knowledge exists so that we needn’t spend our lives reliving what others spent their lives discovering. With all the resources available to us know, in a way we’ve each lived thousands of lives, yet being fed from such a mass store of information sometimes detracts from both the desire and need to explore for oneself, even if the discoveries are known; the way in which babies experience and learn about the world is sensory, and though we each began with the basics, that characteristic still lies within each of us if summoned properly by the correct environment. Metaphorically speaking, if this were done properly, we would all wish to crawl, discover, grasp new counter tops, all with a sense of newness- a location where a carnation doesn’t have a name, just something with a pink, ruffled top, though none of those words exist either; nothing has to have a label there, or a category.
True, raw learning is apart from its fraternal synonyms: knowledge, scholarship, wisdom. The process of learning lends itself to unfamiliarity, a realm where there may not be a black or white, true or false, or better or worse. We first with basics, then group them together into concepts, which are less arbitrary, learn in ways that are transitive and may involve experimentation and being disproved. One of the keys is that learning is a process, as if we were each born with all the tools and understanding that we needed to comprehend the world without first making mistakes and creating our own theories, then w would lack other forms of creativity as well. Also, we learn as sensitive and perceptive beings (many until two decades in their lives), that what they say and do actually has an impact on themselves and those around them. I learn best not when what I’m doing hurts me, but when it hurts those I care about, because part of being sentient and emotional involves acquires empathy, or at least sympathy, through a series of hardships; if everything came easy to us, then we would never have any reason to try to connect with people or broaden our horizons. As said in class of a philosophy of learning, dissatisfaction and indeterminacy each exist for a purpose, to make us better ourselves and never cease to explore new things about the world, those around us and ourselves. The most we can seem to do, truly, as limited beings, is try to know as much as we can about one or two subjects. To me this seems to be why majors exist. Also, even experts in various fields seem to know that, more than likely, they will never know all that there is to know within their field, and a century after their deaths, their fundamental thoughts on the topics encompassed maybe become obsolete; just as people took whatever information was told to them throughout points of history, like with FDR’s fireside chats, people of today turn to the news for a, perhaps, false sense of security. This is strange, as hindsight is known to be 20-20, yet many rely on foresight regardless. Also, an interesting aspect of human nature is knowing that the world is ever changing, yet some things are constant, like the shifting of the seasons, and that, though many have become highly commercialized, traditions are often able to serve a function of bringing people together, even though the world is ever-changing. Ecosystems, even if un-tampered with by humans, fluctuate as well, but not as dramatically as the world of homo sapiens. With our complex webs of morals, we learn that making conscious decisions varies in difficulty by who or what is involved; I read once in Time Magazine that given a scenario in which a train is supposed to stop ahead but will not, an operator is near the lever arm which can bring the train to a halt if pushed onto the lever, and save ten people on an incoming bus or save the one person, the operator, the people surveyed quickly responded that they would save the ten people over the one. However, in the next scenario they were told that the operator was their father or brother, and this baffled people, bringing many to choose the one person, which of course is selfish, taking into account the loss of the families of the other ten people, but this is where love comes into play.
We learn that it can often be the main force to drive a decision, like whether to change jobs and receive a lower salary to be with someone, or fly halfway across the world to care for one’s ill relative. In addition, love is a crucial aspect of learning, putting lessons to use, and appreciating why lessons exist. Without the love of and being loved by others, our lessons would be different ones in that they would detach us from others with smaller spectrums of emotion, accompanied by lower expectations, and on occasion a listlessness for learning if the underlying goal in improving and broadening oneself would be questionable, possibly buried even deeper within us but we’d lack the desire to find it.