Knowledge prevents learning

Like a brake that stops your courage. So you remain where you are because of what you "know"...

When you have the opportunity to learn something new that will develop your potential to achieve something, your thoughts will surface everything you "know" about a given circumstance. The need to learn puts you in a position of ignorance and this, perhaps, is a nuisance to some.

The feeling of blindness before eyes that can see can be terrible if learning is not triggered. Instead, many prefer to react by exposing their knowledge in order to show that they know something that will bring opinions with adjectives that stroke their ego, such as "You are very studious", "I learn a lot from you" or "I would like to know what you You know".

Behaving like someone who knows everything is a survival feature in this very competitive world we live in. We have the feeling that we must – at all times – prove our worth. It feels like we're being evaluated at every step... This is too much torment.

We live with challenges and in the face of them, what we know is almost never enough to go beyond where we are. "Knowledge", in this case, works as a brake that stops your courage to learn something new.

So you stay where you are because of what you think you know.

It is at that moment that you can realize that your attention should not be on what you have already learned, but on how much you are willing to change your way of acting and reacting. So, you will be prepared to learn the right way.

Therefore, more important than knowing is being willing.

Anderson Cruz.

Writer, therapist and graduate student in philosophy.