In the most recent book I've been reading "Define Universe and give two examples" by Barton Dahneke, I've already discovered someone who is eloquent enough with words to describe ideas that have been in my head for awhile so I thought I would use of them and put it here. One of the ideas put forth in this book is the concept of universal truth and the search involved with finding universal truth. The author describes 3 categories of learners.
1. One who doesn't know and realizes he or she doesn't know and wants to learn
2. One who doesn't know but thinks that he or she does and is not ready to learn
3. one who doesn't know and doesn't care
I thought that was a brilliant way of describing people's attitudes towards learning. It goes along with my post on Sci-Fi and how people approach new facts. What was also fascinating was that there is universal truth but people perceive the same set of facts differently based on their paradigm or system of beliefs which is formed based on previous experiences. We tend to gloss over items that fall in line with our paradigm but things that seem odd or different or difficult to understand are potentially items that are new to our paradigm or conflict with it and how we choose to encounter those objects largely shapes the future direction of that paradigm. If we fall into a category 1 learner, we recognize that this new fact doesn't fit with our paradigm and we're eager to understand why so that we can hopefully assimilate that new fact into our paradigm, thus expanding it and getting a bigger piece of the puzzle. If we are a category 2 or category 3 learning, we typically dismiss the new fact and our paradigm never changes, thus leaving us stagnant or perhaps even degrading our paradigm. Its quite an interesting book and although I've only started Chapter 2, I already highly recommend it to anyone who is curious.
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