My Weird Obsession of Becoming An Expert

We learn from our past, whether right or wrong the wisdom which we got we rely so much on our personal experiences. I was never a really good student although I was always called an excellent student by some despite my chronic laziness. From my past experiences of learning, I believed that one must be a master of something in a very short time and early so one might save time in the future to not re-learn what one should have learned. Poor choice of words I know. But now I just realized that this is not true. We have to continuously learn even if we have learned it before. Why? unlike school. The knowledge that is required in a real-life situation is often broad and complicated. Very distinctively with the school-life situation where much of the study is already conceptualized and simplified by the school curriculum and the teachers. When we are dealing with a real-life situation we are pushed to learn many new things and in the process, we might forget what we have learned.

For this reason, we might forget sometimes the concept that we have learned because we keep learning something in the process of trying to understand the world around us. There are no limitations, there are no syllabuses, and with today’s technology, the chance that we might get flooded by information is huge.

But as you know, there are many things to learn, from new technology that keeps coming and we are demanded to adapt as soon as possible until new gossip on Twitter. How to solve that problem? maybe a self-authoring program is needed in this situation. In a time where there are so many possibilities like nowadays, we often find ourselves paralyzed by many opportunities in front of us and we hardly devote ourselves to one subject.

Whenever I heard what an expert is. I would describe it as a person who is so smart that he can solve any problem related to what he has learned which he only needs to learn once and (this is where I am wrong) he doesn't need to re-learn. Becoming an expert as I described above can lead us to many opportunities and achieving higher social status. And I am very agreed. That is what I learned from my experiences.

I think due to the fact that we are living in an information society where there is so much information moving around us we might sometimes forget things. We hardly focus on our learning material and spend less time learning. So, to compromise this we should regularly remind ourselves to re-learn.

I think learning is a process that must be done continuously. If I am to think that I can be an expert just by learning something once that is such a wrong assumption. I have to admit that as a human we might forget things and often we don't get everything just by learning once.