On Learning

Have you ever won­dered who beats your heart, who flows your blood, who keeps you breath­ing when you sleep?

What’s your phone num­ber? Most peo­ple can answer this ques­tion with­out blink­ing. But where does the infor­ma­tion come from? You don’t have to con­sciously remem­ber your phone num­ber all the time. The infor­ma­tion goes out of your aware­ness until you need it, at which time, you can usu­ally eas­ily retrieve it.

How do you get in and out of a room? Through the door. How do you know how to oper­ate it? Because you learned. Not only that, you learned once, and now you know how to open ALL doors, not only the one you learned with. Where is that knowl­edge stored? Do you even have to think about all the nec­es­sary steps to open a door? Prob­a­bly not! You could open a door while think­ing about some­thing totally different.

The uncon­scious mind is that part of us that we are not con­scious about, i.e we don’t have the faintest idea that it’s even here! But, as the immersed part of the ice­berg, it is mon­u­men­tal. All our behav­iours have their source at the uncon­scious level.

If you are over 30 years old, watch the 4 sec­onds video below (a very funny illus­tra­tion of this). If you are below 30, don’t bother, you prob­a­bly won’t get it.

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