The more I learn, the more I also need to remember.
And my memory definitely isn’t all that and a bag of chips.
I can’t tell you how many times I learned something new from something I already read before. Or how many times I resurfaced an idea that I knew, but just hadn’t thought about in a long time.
It’s a mistake to think that once you’ve learned something it’s there forever and you can move on.
The more we learn, the more space we need to create for those new files, and the deeper those other files need to go into storage. We only have so much short-term memory space.
Taking time to resurface those files can be just as valuable, if not more so, than writing new ones.
Be humble in your approach to ongoing education. Never assume you know. Especially in today’s world where there are endless files being written into our brain’s storage every waking moment of every single day. Reread old books. Retake classes & seminars. Listen more carefully to the people you feel you’ve already learned plenty from…
There’s so much to resurface that’s already there.