As the year is coming to an end, we reflect on the year of 2018 that passed, and everything we learned. Isn’t the sentiment always joyful? What is learning for, if not to bring us joy? At the beginning of 2018, I wanted to experience a LOL approach to learning....
The grand narrative of our life unfolds in how faithful we are to the small things. It is not easy, but we can learn. The question is: how? There are several reasons why we may fail in small things, but in my experience, I see four: 1) forgetting; 2) bad habits; 3)...
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” (Pablo Neruda) Love is a high attention phase in our life, and once love fades, also memories. However, when we experience love as transformative, and such transformation endures throughout generations, forgetting becomes a...
We may think about renewing learning with pedagogical innovations on how we educate at any stage of our life. But, apparently, it doesn’t work. In a recent article, I read a comment about the poor results of an expensive project seeking to evaluate a significant...
As we approach the end of 2018, I think about how the world became more digital than I thought. Think about how influential people like Donald Trump and Elon Musk used Twitter. I wondered about how did we get to this digital frenzy world, and how can we survive it. As...
Once we recognize ourselves as learning minds, the best way to spread the word is being the word. The messenger becomes the message. A learning mind pays attention to its surroundings and the life experiencing every minute. It is curious about intriguing questions and...
We’re approaching the end of 2018. Most people (I’m included) begin to think about what we wanted at the beginning of 2018 and review our achievements. However, while reviewing I began thinking about several important events (not goals). Eventually, even...
We all forget some of the things we learned throughout life. But when others share something we learn and forgot, here’s your chance to re-learn and rejoice. Why re-learn and not remember? Learning is more than memorizing. It is an experience including memory,...
Fear is not a bad feeling when it helps to survive in harsh environments by making us alert. But fear may stop us from moving forward with our lives and become who we never thought we could be. Learning is one of the most liberating experiences in life. It’s our...
We are what we experience, but what defines who we should become? And what matters most: being or becoming? We may accept who we are and focus our life on a fixed idea of ourselves. Albeit the importance of such self-acceptance, as learning minds, we are constantly...
