Learn From Everyone Follow No One

Learn From Everyone, Follow No One

 by Beepul Mishra

No matter how experienced and how intelligent you are there is always a scope and need of learning. Not only from books or by reading any articles but by observing someone or something you can learn many qualities. Now I’ll discuss by giving some real life examples.

From a child you can learn to be carefree and enjoy your life.

If in general we will talk about army and terrorists, they both are rivals but when it comes to learning there are some common qualities which you can learn, i.e., fearlessness and their determination for their work, their lives are always in danger but then also they show a remarkable determination for their job. You can learn a lot from the stories of failure, a close observation can help you understand what was the reason of that person’s failure. Many people think that reading and listening success stories are more effective as compared to the stories of failure, but there is always a scope of learning something new when you are reading /listening /observing a story of failure.

When you learn something by observing or by talking to someone or through any other means, you don’t use that information as it is but you have to think in what way you can use the quality. Suppose if you want to learn determination for your work then you have to think how and where to use these qualities, like someone who wants to be a singer will show the determination for singing, someone who wants to be a researcher will show determination for his/her research.

Why I said not to follow anyone?

When you follow someone then you start accepting all his/her quality without any question and this is the major difference between learning and following.

Now suppose if you are blindly following terrorists and their principles then after a time you will be one of them i.e. a terrorist. Considering this example you can observe that not all qualities of anyone are worth learning. So it’s very important to question, ‘ whether this is the quality worth  learning or not'. This is possible only when you have a learning behaviour. When you will follow anyone then there is no scope for any question, which will bound your learning process.

At last it can be concluded that when you follow someone your individuality is vanished, following chokes learning. In learning your individuality is enhanced.