Tag: smart

If learning was easy I’d be smart

Posted on by philipdodson

I’ve discovered rather painfully, on more than one occasion in life, that learning for me is tough.

It requires me to understand others and me, which means listening.

It then requires a willingness to change and to realise that the choices that I’ve made and continue to make, have consequences for me and others.

It requires me to leave the right and wrong behind and to be accountable, responsible but free from reproaching me and others.

Learning is one of the hardest things I have to do.

I realised most of all that I can only do it if I want to.

If learning was easy, perhaps I’d be smart, but the struggle of learning makes all that more satisfying and lasting.

On with the struggle, the baby steps to learning pay off if I’m patient.

If only we were as smart as the things we have invented

Posted on by philipdodson

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We have gone from hunter-gatherers, to being able to send satellites to the edge of the galaxy. From writing on cave walls to sending packets of data instantly anywhere on the planet. We’ve modified crops, cloned sheep, created AI, and so much more.

I am not here to argue about whether it is progress or not, if we need it all or not.

My thoughts, if we are this smart, how comes we are still so dumb as humans in other ways?

We still go to war, still build houses on flood plains, continue to destroy the very planet needed for our survival, poison the foods that we eat with chemicals. We frack for gas and oil, yet it pollutes the environment.

We have ignored all the lessons, which we could have learnt.

The list could go on……

The answer as to why we still do all these dumb things is simple.

The greed of a few and the acceptance of the many.

If we all questioned more, then we would not be as dumb.