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Why Does Everything Come With A Lesson?
Learning is essential to your life experience.
Everything you do, everything that just happens, every experience you have, anyone you meet, anywhere you go, will teach you a lesson. Some lessons don’t manifest immediately, others are instantaneous, and still others appear one way but turn out to be another.
Even the greatest minds to ever live, the smartest, wisest, and most educated on the planet today, and those who are yet to come can’t and don’t know everything. Nobody can know everything.
You are always learning, actively or passively. Many people choose not to be conscious of this and prefer to hold onto a specific set of data points and nothing else. That’s how you get bias, prejudice, stereotypes, racism, sexism, and outright hatred for the “other”, the unknown, and uncertainty.
Formal education is broken into two distinct parts. The first, earliest in your life, teaches you how to gather information and how to learn. Reading, writing, basic math, and listening skills are all taught to schoolchildren around the globe. This is the learning how to learn phase.
The second part, starting around middle school, is learning practical things about history, sciences, sociology, social studies, advanced math, and other similar specific notions…
