The origin of learning

02/12/2023 Nilson Lattari

In our lives, we learn in different ways. Through school and teachers and books and older people who tell us past lessons and life experiences, for generations.
However, when we are talking to people we are experiencing the best way for learning. In this situation, we have the opportunity to meet others and we can discuss ideas.
We don’t learn knowledge only from common sense, the best opportunity to contest our differences of thoughts, but we learn beyond this because we learn about the different.
When we deal with smart and cultured people, we have the opportunity to absorb knowledge or we may feel inhibited or become aggressive. We may feel inhibited because our ideas sometimes are weak before that ideas. We make contact with a level of knowledge that we don’t imagine exists. And we wonder why don’t we expand our thoughts to reach that level of knowledge?
We have sometimes an idea about some subject but it is only a little seed that doesn’t get to germinate, although we are sure about it. If we make contact with someone more brilliant than common sense we will open a door that will provoke a question: why don’t we come to that conclusion? Intelligent people make us more determined to go further. If other ideas are different and more consistent than ours we will have to remake them and develop them more and more.
On the other hand, when some of us make contact with different ideas and we disagree with them, we tend to be aggressive. Some of us want to hit opponents if they have different ideas with consistent arguments. In this situation, we close our minds to the world. We feel, jealous and angry because we are being ridiculous and stupid people.
When we deal with talkers and arrogant people our arguments are the silence because the best behaviour is listening better and speaking less. In our silences we can elaborate our thoughts and we can know our supposed truths.
When we deal with intolerant aggressive and stupid people, we can imagine a mirror in front of us, and this behaviour will teach us in order to be more tolerant educated, and affective people. In the end, we don’t want to be aggressive and ignorant people like them.
When we deal with evil and cynicism, or hypocrisy we can imagine that model sometimes wants to dominate us. And we resist. We resist because our sense of criticism prevents us from him. Only conscientious people can understand different behaviours.
We have a lot of teachers in our life. And in our life, we learn to be teachers of ourselves. All people who are arrogant, intolerant, and stupid identify themselves in mirrors that represent them. This behaviour doesn’t happen by conviction, but it is a mirror by identification. These people adopt incomprehensible ideas because they like to do them
We are teachers of ourselves and we have to study more and more, and we have to understand that if negative points exist they exist to be compared with positive points.