30 September 2014

Common Mistakes - A Learner Must Avoid

While working with ‘Nectar’ to train and coach people for ‘Learning Skills & Techniques’, I have come across with some common mistakes which Learner usually commit regularly during the program workshop. 


Some of these mistakes are listed below.........


1. Google Guru – Google, Wikipedia, websites etc are rich sources of information and knowledge, however it is not reliable guru of ‘Learning Skills & Techniques’.
For most of the people Guru Google and other search engines usually add more confusion than providing clarity of the subject while they try to learn ‘Learning Skills & Techniques’.

2. A real time Guru can not be substituted - A Guru is supposed to remove your doubt and ignorance in an interactive way. Those who are no longer available for interaction simply cannot help you with your doubts; thus they can motivate, facilitate, guide but can not train or coach you for ‘Learning Skills & Techniques’. 
A real time Guru ensures better learning into you.

3. Chess doubles is a spoiled game - Few games are not played in doubles. At any one given time you can never mix two or more Guru together for one specific skill, and still hope to be honest to either one of them. In such case one plus one is always less than one. 
You must trust your Guru. Your devotion leads to knowledge and knowledge leads to wisdom. There is nothing more purifying than knowledge.

4. Either you argue or you learn - Debate only generates heat, and no light. If you approach the learning with a challenging attitude, the knowledge will always elude you but sincere learners are always rewarded.

5. Respect your Guru's methodology - Methodology is the medium through which knowledge is propagated and learning is done. Guru and Learner go hand in hand and are inseparable for learning to happen, in absence of either one whole purpose of learning gets defeated.

6. ‘This is’ v/s ‘That is’ fight is needless - ‘This is and That is’ may be manifestations of the same learning, presented to you in different forms. This diversity appreciates creation, and not creates divisions in the process of learning. Some process treats you as a doer by prescribing necessary actions that you can perform such as study, practice, exams etc, some other process reveals the nature of the very inquirer into you.


7. All Guru are not same - Often I read posts advocating that all Guru teach the same thing. While I can appreciate the intention of those posts, it is just incomplete way to look at the training and coaching, and very dishonest too. A limited action cannot earn a permanent result. Limited mind can only fetch you limited learning. An absolutely free mind from all limitations is required to gain limitless learning. When you are under training or coaching, you still may have to struggle to get a "front seat" to learn your favourite skill or subject.
So let us accept that all Guru are different, and let us accommodate these differences without badmouthing them, and focus on our own.

8. Desire, Devotion, Discipline are preparatory steps to achieve learning - A rightful amount of desire, devotion and discipline is the right attitude with which you shall conduct all our learning activities; ultimately it boils down to success and happiness through Knowledge alone.

Eradicate these mistakes from your system and become an extraordinary learner.


Harsch Kumar Lall

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