Unlearning?
At Dollar Dream Club, we talk about unlearning with the assertion that it makes sense. Yet the understanding of what it is isn’t that important it’s the action of doing the unlearning that’s much more poignant.
Unlearning is the discomfort of unravelling our previous learning of most things, the ability to be open-minded, receptive and willing to challenge beliefs, past and systemic knowledge, how you’ve always done things.
It is essential remembering that when we are learning, we are at our lowest level of incompetence, so why be surprised when it feels uncomfortable, uncertain and unsure.
Unlearning should be even more uncomfortable as we unravel previous actions, behaviours beliefs and attitudes we may have harboured. As David Hieatt from Do Lectures, Hieatt Jeans says “Maybe the way you always do it is wrong?”
We have to be capable to accept we might not know, and there is another way, the ability to sit and let another perspective be absorbed and understood. It is respecting that we can’t tell without emotion or anger, frustration or bitterness.
Unlearning is the process of slow, calm, long term, not immediate gratification or satisfaction. Unlearning is work. Unlearning is practice. Unlearning is the process. Unlearning is not wanting to know the outcome its always in the action of the never-ending moments of uncertainty. Unlearning is brave, courageous, curiosity, persistence and most of accepting we can achieve what we never knew we could.
Unlearning takes patience, and lots of it as Seneca (The Elder), declared “The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.”
Unlearning how we walk as humans we now slouch, we slope, we lop, if we unlearned how to walk differently, we would eradicate backaches and injuries
Unlearning how we breathe, yes how we breathe. If we unlearned how we inhale to exhale (see Breath James Nestor and look at Wim Hof Method) has a powerful effect on how we function, perform and repair and restore.
Unlearning how we eat, understanding our body’s needs, real hunger, awareness of needing water and hydration versus the desire for food. If we unlearned how we eat, we would radicalise food consumption, food-related illnesses, food production and the benefit to our bodies and our functionality.
Unlearning how we talk. If we unlearn the language and words we use and the impact they have on ourselves and others. The words that change mood, thoughts, beliefs, negate our real selves just in the words we use.
Unlearning how we think is what Dollar Dream Club is all about. Our thoughts can stop us, limit us yet when we unlearn and relearn thought making, outcomes and external success is achieved by working on the internal thought process.
Unlearning is not instant. Unlearning needs your consistency and persistence. You choose.
Why is UNLEARNING key in Dollar Dream Club? We, who apply and live the principles and actions do so in a perpetual motion of unlearning that allows us to embrace and never accept the norm without a focus on unlearning, desire and knowledge to be better and do better, small compound improvement daily.
How are you unlearning?
