I think that there is one single thing that teachers should teach you in elementary school. They should teach you that you are capable of learning anything. If they taught us this when we were kids, we would be able to spend the rest of our lives learning everything that we needed to know. Instead, they teach us specific things and many of us grow up feeling like there are some things that we just can’t learn.

The areas that we feel inadequate in as learners are all different. Ask me to learn about data capture systems or the work of networked scanning system providers and I’m as comfortable as a pea in a pod. But ask me to learn how to draw or paint and I immediately will tell you that it’s something I “just can’t learn”. And although I think that I can get better at improving my relationships, it’s taken me a long time to learn that this is something that I can learn.

I wish that it wasn’t this way for me. I wish that I could look at any area of life and think to myself that I could learn how to do it if only I tried. I’m not quite there. And I think that’s because that’s not what we learn when we’re little. We learn our ABCs. We learn specific things. But we don’t learn explicitly that we are able to learn. That needs to change.

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