The necessity of learning the method of adapting
learning and its effect on the quality of our experiences.
Previous knowledge becomes an obstacle to new knowledge.
Our knowledge expires.
There is a direct relationship between our ability
to adapt ourselves to the environment and our level of satisfaction with life. Adaptation means that we can change ourselves with the distinctions that the environment presents to us about our nature at the same time as the constant changes of the environment. The more distinctions we make between the environment and its components, the more information we can understand, and the more we understand, the deeper our level of insight and understanding of our cause and effect relationships with the environment will be, and this will make us better interact with the environment. and be able to fulfill our wishes and reach our goals.
The fulfillment of desires creates a sense of happiness, joy, satisfaction and success in us, each of which reinforces the other in a positive cycle and causes mental growth and improvement. On the other hand, not achieving our desires creates a sense of disappointment, dissatisfaction and ruin in us, which draw strength from each other and lead to psychological pain and depression in a negative cycle. In order to fulfill our desires and achieve our goals, we must be able to create a balance between the psychological environment inside and the physical environment outside. Alignment means to understand how the external mechanism works.
All our needs and desires are formed in the external environment and the environment responds to them in 3 ways. Either they are fulfilled 100%, or none of them are implemented, or some of them come true, which in any case can lead to complete satisfaction, pure dissatisfaction, and relative satisfaction with life, respectively.
In order to succeed, we must interact with the external forces. The factors that determine our success rate are one of knowing the most appropriate steps to take according to the environmental conditions, and the second is the amount of our knowledge. Consider a circle with a diameter of 8 cm. We assume that the range inside this circle represents everything that can be known about all of existence. In this circle, we draw a smaller circle with a diameter of 2 cm.
Consider this circle to represent the total body of knowledge that human generations have acquired since day one about their nature and their surroundings. If we put a dot inside the circle, it would be a fair representation of what each person considers as a person. We can put a dot for all the people in this circle and consider them as a symbol of the amount of knowledge of each person. Now the empty spaces between these points represent outdated knowledge and experiences that no one believes.
Also, we can categorize the points and place them in similar thought groups. The empty space between the 2 circles represents everything that mankind has yet to learn about and shows that there are still many things to learn in the environment, but until we learn something about them, we cannot experience them.
If an unknown force acts on us, we will dismiss it as unreal or label it as superstition until the day comes when it is investigated and its reality is known. New human discoveries and experiences cause the ever-increasing expansion of the same smaller circle.
It can be said that the size of this circle in the Middle Ages was approximately one tenth of its current size. We have shown the world that we experience as a person with a single dot, and the circle around it represents all the things that a person could understand and experience if he knew all the knowledge and consciousness of the entire human being. But by comparing the small and large circle, we understand that this information and awareness is insignificant compared to what we have not yet learned and indicates the limitations within which we currently operate.
In other words, there is always more information around us than what our limitations allow us to perceive and experience. Everyone can apply force to the surrounding environment according to the structure of their mental and psychological environment, and this force can have a pleasant or unpleasant effect on others. Therefore, as much as we cannot understand the behavioral aspects of people and the way they express themselves on the environment, we consider it as an unknown force and we do not know what effect it is going to have on us.
We are not born with the insight that it is necessary to interact with the environment in a way that gives us satisfaction, and it is clear that none of us feels 100% satisfied with life. But the more we understand and know about the interacting forces behind our own behavior and the interacting forces in the environment, the easier it will be to meet the needs and reach the goals and the greater our sense of satisfaction.
Learning and its effect on the quality of our experiences
We have a need to know from the very beginning. This natural feeling, which we call curiosity, leads us to seek and learn new things. When we learn something or finish something, it no longer holds its initial appeal and we get bored with it. This heartbreak is an internal force that makes us seek to discover and learn new things. There is another force called attraction as a factor for dynamism and creation of new experiences.
If we take away something that has attracted the child’s attention, he will immediately start to express his dissatisfaction by crying. This means that the child has not yet had enough of curiosity about that thing. In fact, crying is a form of expressing dissatisfaction with the lack of fulfillment of needs and desires to compensate for the lack of harmony between the external environment and our mental environment. When we become aware of all aspects of that thing, we usually lose interest in that subject and we try to look for something in the environment that attracts us to it.
Another characteristic that makes us learn is that when we learn a skill, the steps that make up that skill are transferred to our subconscious levels and our mind opens up a new place to learn something new. Take driving skills, for example. We are taught this skill step by step and at each step our full attention is focused on learning that step and if we are distracted, we almost lose our concentration.
But once we’ve mastered the skill, it’s easy to focus on other things while doing it. If we did not have such an innate quality and skills did not move from conscious to unconscious levels, it would be impossible for us to achieve skills beyond the capabilities of a child. By learning more and more of the knowledge and insight that the environment provides about itself, we improve the level of our relationship with the environment and improve the consistency and structure of our mental environment.
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Every change that takes place inside simultaneously changes our attitude and understanding from the outside, because we can look at the world from another angle that was not clear to us before. You might think that the relationship between what we learn and our level of life satisfaction is clear, but it is not. Why ? Because if this was the case, now many people would not have a problem in establishing a connection between their dissatisfaction with life and not having a correct vision of life, and would not deny the existence of things that they should learn.
It is true that a higher level of satisfaction is always achieved with new experience, but this only lasts until we reach a point where we have learned everything we need to know. At this point we can expect that all the results that happen in the external environment will exactly match what is happening in our mental environment. In short, whatever we ultimately experience is exactly proportional to our level of knowledge and insight and our ability to act on what we know, and nothing more.
The more we allow ourselves to learn, the better we can assess the possibilities that will exist in the future. In fact, we must first accept that there are other futures for us, other than what we imagine. If we don’t accept this, we will never learn how to predict or identify other possibilities that could be more satisfying.
If we always defend our current situation by defending our current beliefs and learnings, we will constantly feel that the environment is attacking us because the environment continuously invites us to learn new things and we reject them, and this creates We will feel anxious.
A simple way to find out if you need to learn or not is to see how satisfied you are with your life. For example, if you don’t feel satisfied in your relationships, shouldn’t you consider it as a sign that you don’t have enough communication skills?
The big problem is that we think we have all these skills and if we are not successful in our relationships, it is because it is impossible to have a good relationship in this era and time. are doing This vicious cycle will continue until the day we admit that there are skills to learn and take action to learn them.
Previous knowledge becomes a barrier to new knowledge
In the article on environmental information management by memories, associations and beliefs, we talked about the role of beliefs in the mental system. Acknowledging the need to learn new things is not as easy as it seems. It is one of the paradoxes of our life that we admit the things we don’t know or admit the things we know are not as effective as they should be.
But how can we know that we don’t know? Especially when the things we know prevent new information from entering our minds. For example, when we have done a few small but profitable transactions in the stock market for the first time and we have formed the belief that trading is very easy.
This belief closes our minds to the idea that it might be the hardest job in the world. As soon as an experience becomes part of our mental environment, it automatically becomes part of our identity, that is, it seems so real that it cannot be questioned. If our minds are not already biased, we are usually ready to learn what the environment gives us. That is, in the first encounter, we absorb all the information like a sponge.
After entering the information in the mind, we block the way to its opposite information or by hiding, we prevent them from invading our mind. But know this point that defending the mind against the entry of new information requires spending a certain amount of energy, which we know as stress. This is the feeling we get when we consciously block information.
In physical terms, stress is like walking against the wind. The wind here is the information that the environment wants to give us, and our body is our mind that has already learned something and is now resisting, and naturally we feel pressure in this situation.
One of the ironies of our life is that everyone likes to be right and to take it for granted that what he has experienced and learned about the existential nature of things in the environment is the same as reality. But we should know that just because something enters our mind and takes place in it, it does not mean that it is really something valuable and can be useful in fulfilling our needs. A child cannot at all reflect on how to form his beliefs about the true nature of the environment, and his perceptions are strongly influenced by his environment.
He considers his experiences as pure reality without any question and trusts the physical senses and emotions and the people around him such as his father, mother or teacher to such an extent that everything seems to him to be reality. The child does not understand that every belief that is formed in his mind will be considered as pure reality from now on and will cause other possible possibilities to be rejected from his mind.
It is possible that some beliefs will gradually lose color by drawing his attention to new things, but if a large number of his initial beliefs have a negative charge, it will severely limit his understanding of possible and suitable situations.
Consider a person who has been constantly humiliated by his parents since childhood. The beliefs that he forms about himself and establishes a relationship based on them with those around him, happen in an environment full of psychological pain. Being worthless is the perception he makes of himself in his mind, and this belief may accompany him even into adulthood and he cannot free himself from its destructive effects.
We should know that the more we give the possibility that our version of understanding the environment is not as useful and correct as it should be, the more we prepare ourselves to learn from the environment, so we are better able to see the possibilities and opportunities that may be in front of us in the future. Let’s evaluate and we will definitely be more successful.
Remember that if we knew as much as we imagine, we shouldn’t feel psychological pain, and precisely these psychological pains are the best indication that we still don’t know how to interact with the environment based on the facts that if We knew, we would definitely do this and the mental pain had no meaning anymore.
Our knowledge expires
Humans are naturally reluctant to collect information that contradicts their prior knowledge. But he should also keep in mind that the information he has not yet learned for any reason can provide him with more appropriate steps to meet his needs. Consider a child who is bitten by a dog at its first encounter. He naturally considers all dogs the same as that dog, and all dogs are dangerous to him.
The child actively begins to label all dogs, and from then on, no matter how much the environment tries to convince him of his contrary belief, he will not accept because the association that all dogs are dangerous is automatically formed in his mind and nervous structure. Takes. On the contrary, if he has a good experience with dogs in the first encounter, he will never be afraid of dogs again until the day he has a bad experience.
But in this case, the dog that caused his bitter experience will not be the same as other dogs and will not label all of them as dangerous, he will only learn to behave cautiously when dealing with dogs to make sure that the dog is not aggressive.
You can teach a child whatever you want, regardless of whether these teachings are completely true, the child will learn them all and it will become a part of his identity. Usually we only challenge the value and validity of what we know when we “have to”. But what is the reason that forces us to do this? the pain! A trader who currently believes that trading is the easiest job in the world, when will he realize that trading is not easy? Of course, by enduring the pain of disappointment, when he sees that he is not able to achieve his goals.
When the validity of a false belief is challenged, a world of new information appears before our eyes. Information that was right in front of our eyes and we didn’t notice it. This information teaches us how to better interact with the trading environment by increasing our level of communication and understanding. Learning means change. If we avoid internal change, there will be no change in our perception of the environment.
We will never get out of the repetitive cycle of pain and dissatisfaction. In general, we continue to suffer until the pain exceeds our tolerance threshold and we have no other choice but to revise the way we manage our mind. We should also know that our knowledge becomes obsolete over time. Our mind will not change according to the changes in the environment, and no matter how harmful and ineffective our beliefs may be, they may accompany us for the rest of our lives.
The surrounding environment is constantly changing and these changes are made in the market at a very high speed. They may not be obvious, but they are undoubtedly there. The problem is that we feel the changes but do not recognize them until the pain forces us to accept them. We must always be vigilant and know that if the things we have learned are no longer working, to update them as soon as we get the signs.
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