Learn to learn

          All advancements in life are about gaining knowledge from encounters and occurrences. And so is the case with your career. But merely discerning what is what of a matter is not sufficient. You also need to overcome predicaments, trounce problems and triumph over impediments. Only then you will be able to go all-out to craft the future that you seek.

            Moving forward in your career is indeed possible and well within your reach. Each and every man and woman, because they are human beings have the power of intellect. With every step they take, they learn; so the learning process is incessant and becomes a new experience every time it takes place.

            You can learn to learn. You need to discover, you need to ascertain and you need to discern. And this is possible. How? Here are four clear-cut steps of the method:

·   Seeing  into the future:

This maiden step implies creating a realistic but hardnosed portrait of your future. Whatever you seek to attain, it should be consequential and evocative. It should never be relegated; on the contrary it should serve as the very basis of your verve and steadfastness.

It may be possible that you are not certain of what you intend to seek. If that be so, exercising any option from amongst the many you may have considered will set the ball rolling. You will start delving into it more and more; and over a period of time be able to perfect and even upgrade it. You will have a clear image of the future that you actually yearn for.

But the most important part of the matter is that unless you venture and wager, your vision will never graduate to a reality. If you lack a clear vision of whatever you want to be or for that matter, what your life is envisioned to be, you will not accomplish anything significant. An odd success may come your way by fluke, but that alone will never transform you to a person that you could possibly be or eventually want to be. 

·   Being active & performing:

The second step is to do something. It is only by implementing a plan of action that you will edge your way. You will have a better focus of things; the prospects of your visualization transforming into actuality will thus be positive. Following any line of action entails taking tangibly precise measures for attaining whatever you envision.

All sound ideas are pragmatic, explicit and futuristic. Hence they tend to acquire long-term peculiarities. Therefore, one tends to brand them as difficult to attain. If you remain active and keep performing, you will be able to split a long and arduous voyage into short and comfortable rides.

You may indulge in action, but yet things may not be to your advantage. There could be setbacks but let them not upset you. You ought to have courage to face odds; after all, courage is nothing but going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. You should be highly tenacious and be able to exploit your potential fully. If you do not do so, you will not achieve anything meaningful in your life.

·   Going through outcomes:

You may envision, you may act; but you need to weigh whatever you have accomplished. So the third step ought to be assessing the effects of your actions. You will also get to know what the environment feels about you. Such pointers will help you determine how close or how far you are from realizing your dreams. You may get bouquets or brick-bats, just like stage-performers get applauded or booed.

The process of going through outcomes is like sieving all what has surfaced to separate out clarity and confusion, both being perceptible inputs. An examination of ‘clarity’ will provide you reliable proof of whether your actions are bearing fruit or not. Remember that even negative results can be very constructive on account of their inherent capability to offer something to learn. A word of caution though, you will have to be as unbiased and unprejudiced as possible.  

You should also bear in mind that whatever be the results, no success is ever final, nor is any failure fatal; what will eventually count will be your courage and courage alone.

·   Mulling over lessons:

Learning to learn can be a disappointing process when you have to ponder over what has emerged after you have performed. But going over what transpired and what followed is an important component of the procedure. A single stroke can convert opinions and inferences from good to bad – this could well be applicable to you or any other person.

The bare truth is that if you do not give up, the process to create your future will always be alive. So long as you keep viewing yourself and the world around you in correct perspective, you will be on the move and getting close to your vision. As a matter of fact, the more serious you are on this aspect, the earlier you will attain your objectives.

            It is quite likely that you already have defined a future for yourself and are taking appropriate measures for its achievement. If your move forward is sluggish, you may not be learning from your experiences. The ‘learn to learn’ process has to be evenhanded and objective by all counts. It is like riding a bicycle; if you have deflated tyres, the ride will be bumpy. On the contrary, if everything is roadworthy, you will have a smooth ride; the smoother it gets, the more likely that your destination is closer.