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Learn is a Verb, Knowledge Is A Noun: Teach Me, O Wise One
Is it better to have knowledge or to learn? Does it matter?
I consider myself a person who loves knowledge, and I’ve stated this often. However, after much reflection and conversations on my Swell podcast, I may be a person who loves to gather and store up information, but learning is too humbling…. necessary, but difficult to do for some people.
Learning is a verb
To learn means to acquire knowledge or to gain a new skill.
You may consider learning as the journey. There is a path that may be filled with metaphorical brambles, leaves, sticks and boulders to agitate your progress, and some days the path may be beautiful and bright green as a prairie.
When I learn something new or when I want to learn a skill(which is so important these days), I find myself excited, because I know the end goal will be acquired knowledge. In my Dr. Stone voice: “Knowledge acquired!”
However, just as I was first learning Python, over the course of a few weeks, I found myself discouraged to continue on. Should I even be on this path to programming at my age? Should it matter? When I do understand coding, will I use it or will I just be happy that I know it? Why is it so hard to code? How…
