The Will to Learn

Do you have the will to learn? Do you have what it takes to start from the beginning? What is you willingness to change?

This next thing I learned was where did I stood on learning and accepting change. It is a index or a scale that my advisor taught me called "Teach ability Index." This Index comprises of two things: How teachable are you? and Your willingness to accept change? This is the crutch of learning new information.

For me, I was willing to learn. I was willing to give up anything! I wanted to learn everything I could on anything and everything teaching me what I was doing wrong in my life and how to correct it. I was thirty something with no future and playing endless mind games with inmates. I was a corrections officer at a state run facility when I started learning this information. I  felt lost and I knew there was more to life than the old rat race.

 As for my willingness to accept change, it was difficult because I had to break all of my old habits and old ways of thinking. No human being likes change but if you have the will to learn you have the will to change.

To quote a film line that I think is appropriate right now. "What is the essence of man?" ask yourself this question.



Take this above picture, what is the essence of this picture? What does it tell you? What does it convey? How does it touch you? I can answer all three question with in one word: CHANGE!

Nature is an never ending battle of change. The leaves fall in the winter then reappear in the spring. The water evaporates then comes back as precipitation. The bird lays eggs to bring forth new birds. See, even nature changes from day to day, month to month, year to year.

So ask yourself again "What is the essence of man?"