Are you a lifelong learner?
Yesterday I was out and about with the three year old and for the life of me I could not remember the German word for Diaper.
I felt like my brain was at capacity. Did I have to unlearn something to create storage for this new word. of course the brain doesn’t work that way.
No, learning new things does not overwrite or push out older information. The brain’s long-term memory capacity is virtually unlimited, estimated to hold roughly 2.5 petabytes of data (enough to record 300 years of continuous video).
Will you ever learn?
Have you ever been asked this?
I used to love the term, lifelong learner, but the term is as self evident as the expression I was born at a very early age.
Which brings us back to yesterday. We visited my ex mother in law in Ingelheim. I am not big into the German traditional afternoon of snack of cake and cookies. I had not seen my ex mother in law since right after the Berlin Wall fell. I didn’t speak German well back then and that pissed her off at the time. But yesterday we sat and conversed in German. Not perfectly, but still it was breezy and fun. I enjoyed the afternoon.
We rarely drive in Germany. Yesterday we rented a car with a manual transmission. I taught my daughter to drive stick many years ago and she struggled with it. Yesterday she mastered the Autobahn without a hitch.
Imagine if we were not lifelong learners. Or maybe that’s why they rarely sell manual transmissions in the States.
Ich brauche eigentlich eine Windel.
Oh yeah I needed a diaper. I have not forgotten how to change one of these.
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