You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Shaw observes that learning often feels like a loss because it changes your previous state.
- In plain terms
- Gaining knowledge can feel like losing ignorance at first.
- What can you take from it?
- Growth comes with a sense of loss.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why does change feel like loss?
- How do we adjust to new knowledge?
Another view
Sometimes learning feels clearly like progress.
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