Yesterday was about learning - today is about unlearning. In another post from Joyful Jubilant Learning, writer, Dean Boyer presented an UNLEARNING challenge for August.

"Let's not only share what we have learned but also anything we have unlearned! We all have a tendency to complicate our lives through our learning; perhaps August will be a month where we start to simplify our lives by unlearning things. As living and learning go together (Adrian Savage), unlearning and freeing go together, in my opinion." -  His 24 year old son had a heart attack 2 days ago. "For my wife and me, we have to unlearn that fragility of life does not respect age. My wife's 82 year old dad is battling cancer again; this battle is something we expected. Joel's situation was one we had not expected. In both situations, we see again how fragile life can be for every one of us."                                                

While doing some research on UNLEARNING, I found a plethora of information! At BUILD FREEDOM they have a couple great quotes:

Old minds think:    If it didn't work last year, let's do MORE of it this year.	New minds think If it didn't work last year, let's do something ELSE this year.
Old minds think: How do we stop these bad  things from happening?	New minds think: How do we make things the way we want them to be?
Quoted from Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure by Daniel Quinn (of 'Ishmael' fame)

and Big Booster / Brain Upgrade suggests, "What would happen if you continuously "upgraded" your brain similarly to the way Microsoft upgrades its software programs? Possibly even more important to consider, what would happen to Microsoft if the fired all their programmers, stopped issuing program upgrades, and stopped developing new programs? They would probably be out of business within a year!

What will happen as long as Microsoft can continue to upgrade its metaphorical "company brain" together with its personnel's brains and their products and services, so they remain a step or two ahead of the competition?

Just as Microsoft lives in a changing world where the competition is continuously upgrading, we as individuals also live in a changing world in which we can get left behind, or even degenerate disastrously, if we don't continuously upgrade our brains and lives."

Dr. Michael Hewitt-Gleeson coined the term "necktop computer." He has also provided some pretty good software to upgrade your brain so it will work better. One of his books is called Software for your brain. It's available online at Thinkers.com and it's FREE. Dr. Hewitt-Gleeson also provides a FREE Brain Freebie! course.

One final note to think about: The Mithya Institute for Learning says, "It has been said that fish living in two parts of an aquarium separated by a glass partition generally continue to stay on their original half even though the partition is removed. Adults quickly become comfortable inside their individual box and continue to live on 'autopilot'.

There is an old fable about a frog in a pond. A new frog arrived from the ocean. He asked this visitor how big was the ocean. "The ocean is very large and the pond is so small compared to the ocean," the second frog responded. The frog in the pond could not imagine anything bigger than the pond it lived in and therefore it went away thinking that the second frog was the biggest liar it had ever met. Escaping our self-created box before there is an emergency, requires a definite intention."