Learning

Thanks to @brandonwilson for today’s post inspiration.

Humans learn from the beginning of their life. Let’s start in the womb of the mother.

Everybody knows hiccups. As far as I know, they are leftover from our time inside our mother’s wombs. The unborn fetus uses this hiccups to “train” and “learn” breathing.

The lungs of this unborn baby aren’t unfolded as long as the baby is unborn. With the first cry outside of the womb, they unfold.

Over the course of years we learn how to eat, talk, walk and all other stuff that comes with it. We need to learn it, or we are left out.

Later, we sit inside schools and learn the basic stuff that makes the world turning.

The first few years of learning we are doing completely autodidact. No one tells us how to walk on two legs. No one tells us how to speak.

Later the learning changes. In schools, we need to sit still and listen to others. If you’re like me (and the chances are high), you probably hated school and sitting, listening.

Later, when it comes to choosing the field to work in, it is the first “learning” choice we can do on our own (well, mostly).

Interestingly, the more we want to learn something the easier it gets to learn. I hated to learn mathematics and I had a hard time learning it. On the other side, I was really interested in anatomy as I started my paramedic training. Suddenly, that “hard” stuff of anatomy was easy to learn.

The great thing about learning is, it sometimes happens completely in the background. Just like walking back in the day, we can learn from books or movies we enjoy without even thinking about it. Think about it!