Learning agenda. Learning with an agenda is predisposing yourself to a conclusion. This type of learning serves a purpose but it also narrows our lives. We create silos of knowledge and the desire to learn and be entertained. We create silos of knowledge. In those silos, we have a predisposition. We have a planned outcome of our learning agenda and it’s also entertaining.
Take a baseball fan and look at the numbers. The statistics about the game come at you in a hail storm. These numbers mean everything to the baseball fan and to you it likely means little. But you should know the basics of the game. If you are going to the park and watch the game, you’ll enjoy it more, if you understand what is happening on the baseball diamond.
Break Out
The suggestion is we break out. That we take our advice about diversity, about social diversity, about biodiversity. This is understood to be indispensable in the health of all endeavors. Learning with an agenda is learning just enough about baseball to ask a runner to hold on 1st with 2 outs in a full count. Yeah, you don’t do that. If you don’t understand baseball, you don’t know the intricacies of what is transpiring out on the baseball field.
How about biodiversity? Famine and soil depletion are the results of one crop planted repeatedly in the same farmland. People die from lack of food because the overuse or the lack of diversity of the land. Learning with an agenda is narrow and it is also important. I need to study for this test it creates a focus. A focus to find what you want and how it can suit your immediate need. An example is, I have to take a driver’s test. But burst out of that in your personal life find a shoulder item to study.
The Shoulder Item & The Learning Agenda
The shoulder item. Here’s the way to think of that. You’ve got your head and that’s your basic endeavor, let’s say martial arts. A shoulder interest might be on one shoulder, yoga and the other weight lifting. Similar but different endeavors. So, find a shoulder industry. Find a shoulder to study and go ahead and learn something about it. Learn for the sake of educating yourself.
Recently I chose to learn more about Olympic style weightlifting. In particular female Olympic style weightlifting. I got an education and a half. Not only about competition, styles, and philosophies but learned some things that I can use in my day-to-day life.
So, learning with an agenda has a purpose but burst out. Find that shoulder, find that thing and learn about it so that you are diverse. Like the biodiversity, the social diversity, and the cultural diversity, because if you don’t you can see the results.
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KRIS WILDER
Kris Wilder is a martial artist based in Seattle Washington. He has authored many martial art books, including the classic, The Way of Kata. Making no apologies for his obsession of Football he can be found telling any who will listen about the nuances of the Canadian Football League.
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