School Me Saturday 2/17/24-the more we learn, the less we know

The more we learn, the less we know.

This is a stark statement and it can also feel a bit disheartening.

What do you mean I have more to learn? When can I be done?

We can break down the phrase. The more we learn. Yes, there is always something to learn. It is impossible to know everything about everything. Learning is a privilege, some people do not have that luxury. We’re not going to unpack that; that’s a Tuesday top-of-mind topic.

If you have the opportunity to learn, absolutely do it! No matter how you learn, what you learn. It is always important to stretch those brain muscles.

The second part of the saying is no less important than the first part. The less we know, to me this means there is an opportunity to examine what we know and what there is still to learn in whatever realm you want to learn.

If you are a current adult learner you are already engaging with learning more. The key is always to be learning more and expanding your knowledge. You have to be content with the learning because it is not about learning all the things. Because that is impossible because no one has the time to learn all the things, not in a human’s life span. Even AI doesn’t know everything. Because there is always knowledge being generated in every minute, in every day.

Albert Einstein said that the brain is a muscle. In growing older the idiom if you don’t use it, you lose it really becomes clear. Your brain, your muscles, the foreign language you took in high school. All of it has to be augmented; there is always something to learn.

That fact that there is always something to learn is the takeaway from today. As is the idea of additional education in whatever realm that you want to learn.

Learning will never be done.

There is always something new. Being willing to learn is half the battle.