Learning something just doesn’t work unless there’s a moment of surrender and I make or let myself say “I don’t know”. When I was a child I didn\u2019t have this challenge. I expected that I didn\u2019t know lots of things but as an adult, I am attached to the idea that I already know things, that I’m already good at some things.<\/p>\n
Learning just feels like a lot of failures and plenty of frustrations and errors. That doesn’t feel great. “I don’t know” is a vulnerable place to be in our world of specialists and competition. I can see the value in it too. It is my ego that stops me from admitting I don’t know. My ego holds me back from the chance of learning!<\/p>\n
When I reach the surrender of “I don’t know” then I know I am actually ready to learn. From that point, I am\u00a0truly starting fresh.\u00a0Then I just have to trust in the process and let the ‘failures’ and frustrations show me the way from there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Learning something just doesn’t work unless there’s a moment of surrender and I make or let myself say “I don’t know”. When I was a child I didn\u2019t have this challenge. I expected that I didn\u2019t know lots of things but as an adult, I am attached to the idea that I already know things, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,112,4],"tags":[36,86,41,178,84,5,179,74],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-center","category-grown-up","category-thinking","tag-choice","tag-ego","tag-failure","tag-fear","tag-honesty","tag-learning","tag-trust","tag-worry"],"yoast_head":"\n