An Essay About Learning New Things

Instead of doing the same thing every single day, it is beneficial to try new things. When people experience new things, and are introduced to new material, they are learning. Some people do not realize it, but we all learn something new every day. Learning is a relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that results from experience. Learning can be adaptive and flexible to meet life’s demand. Although it is important to learn new things, the new material learned is not as important as the process of learning itself. In the process of learning, one’s mind is transformed and engaged. They will be introduced to new things and their ideas and thinking will be changed forever. When learning new things, seeing the value of things become

When scrolling through social media it is important that one only feed into some of the things that are put out into the world. People have so many opinions, and loosely throw them around as facts. We, as people have to learn to differentiate between facts and opinions because social media can contain a lot of biased information. From the few things that I learned from social media, I tried to apply them to my life. On social media there are a lot of rumors thrown around, and many people have opinions. So, I had to overlook those and gathered information from a more reliable source. As I learned the additional information, I shared the information with my friends. My friends had their opinions, and some of them differed from mine. I was open to hear their point of view, but they couldn’t listen to mine. It is because they are very close-minded. When one wants to learn new things, they have to be open minded. Like David Bohm said in his essay, On Communication, “It is clear that we are to live in harmony with ourselves and with nature, we need to be able to communicate freely in a creative movement in which no one permanently holds to or otherwise defends his own ideas” (Bohm