Reflection 6

Capture:

This week I’d like to talk about how learning to love learning can change your life. I'd also like to talk briefly about how learning to love learning will lead you to love teaching.

Analysis:

We learn new things everyday. If we don't love to learn, life can easily become pretty boring and safe. Not that safety is a bad thing, but that safety due to complacency and an idle mind can completely change what you're willing to learn and accept as knowledge. If we don't love to learn, each new topic we 'have to' study or test we 'need to' prepare for becomes nothing more than just that, "have to do's and need to do's" which causes us to perceive learning as a chore rather than the adventure it can be. However if we 'want to' or 'get to' learn about a new topic or skill, our approach to learning completely changes and we find our lives open to change and new experiences. (Not so sure anyone will ever 'want to' take a test though) If you love what you are learning you'll want to share it with others, plain and simple. Sharing knowledge solidifies it in our own minds and helps others have the opportunity to accept and understand new things that can be life changing. That could be one of many reasons why missionaries go out for two years to teach the gospel, to solidify it in their own hearts and minds as they share what they've learned to be true. 

Action:

I'm trying my best to love learning so that I can grow in all areas of my life. I know that as I truly love learning that I'll truly love teaching and that as I come to love both, each will cease to be a chore and become a 'want to' or 'get to' in my life.