The More I Learn, the more I learn that I have more to learn

The More I Learn, the more I learn that I have more to learn

For Christians, today is a Good Friday but whatever the day is when the calendar flips over, my thirst for learning remains unabated, unrestrained, unperturbed.  So I concocted this kilometric-long quotation [hehehe, I can secure my copyright for this]:  THE MORE I LEARN, THE MORE I LEARN THAT I HAVE MORE TO LEARN.  But this is exactly how I feel, how I breath life, how I lead my life.  Everyday that dawns upon me is another opportunity I grab and leverage on BECAUSE I am fully cognizant that if that slips past me, that is a LOST OPPORTUNITY I cannot recoup by all means.  BTW, I don't take TRAININGs simply for compliance.  No Senor.

Albert Einstein, one of the greatest physicist ever, said: 'ONCE YOU STOP LEARNING, YOU START DYING'.  I'm sorry, this is neither a THREAT nor a WARNING.  Do take this as a 'WAKE-UP CALL'.  Unfortunately, this pandemic is used as a reason by many to stop learning.

If you're in a very bad shape, if your house is 'on fire' [figuratively speaking], you could be facing ten top burning priorities all at the same time but hey, we're just humans, we can just execute one task at a time.  BTW, even those supercomputers who swag and swank their MPP [massive parallel processing] but from a technical jargon, their multi-threading still means one execution at a time.  Difference is, their execution is a thousand times faster.

If there's one major DON'T, DON'T FOCUS ON WHAT YOU CAN'T FIX.  That simplifies the equation and that restores order to the mess you're now in.  Akin to that picture where you're caught up in a ring of fire, the TOP PRIORITY is NOT to fight that fire but rather, how to extricate and wiggle yourself out of that inferno.  It's all SETTING PRIORITIES.

Borrowing the favorite keyword of Former US President Bill Clinton, it was 'KISS' [i.e. keep it simple, shit].  In a topsy-turvy world, you gotta clear things up before you clear things up.  Where there are one too many priorities pulling you across different directions, first things first, you gotta take things in control.

Problem is, some [or rather, MANY] of us, just think too much, OVERTHINKING in fact.  But as Chinese martial arts expert Bruce Lee said, IF YOU SPEND TOO MUCH TIME THINKING ABOUT A THING, YOU'LL NEVER GET IT DONE.  In two blunt sarcastic words, that is ANALYSIS PARALYSIS no less.  Before you know it, it's GAME OVER, zero time left for you.

On the other hand, there are times when we want to just do one too many things which is laudable and understandable especially when there are multiple TOP PRIORITIES.  Hmmmm, let's look how those tournament standings are all tied in total points and they had to break up those ties.  But you might ask me, when we're at home, locked out because of this pandemic and we got ten priorities, how do we break up those ten very top priorities ?  In basic accounting, we call that the 'T' account wherein I use the 'T' table to list all benefits on the left, disadvantages on the right.  Obviously, you factor-in the impact to either side of the 'T' table.  And that's when you can simplify a rather complex equation.

At the end of the day, you gotta 'MAKE THE GRADE'.  Don't settle for something less than the best performance you can give but as the old cliche goes, 'IF YOU AIM FOR THE SKY, IF YOU FAIL, YOU WILL FALL ON THE TREE TOP.  IF YOU AIM FOR THE TREE TOP, YOU WILL FALL ON THE GROUND'.  BTW, 'falling on the ground is spelled "M-E-D-I-O-C-R-I-T-Y' and that's a blot of ink we should avoid because eventually, that blot can become an stigma.  You might get tagged for that MEDIOCRITY.  And this brings us full circle back with LEARNING LEARNING LEARNING because that is a life-long process we can't just get away with folks. ✅✅✅