Why can not we learn?

Even humanity is proud of tech and other plenty of learning resources, we have huge problems to learn sth that we want. I try to check for possible main reasons. The articles covered below are my personal claims and experience.

1-You may not really want to learn:

Is it really your desire to learn it? Whether you are trying to learn sth for your job, personal development or just a hobby, it may not be your real desire. You may think that you really want it, but the main reason can be “you just want to make others happy by doing it”. In the time of digital fake world we have problems to discover our real passions. When we see others traveling the world, we may also want the same. But its not our real desire. Its just others passion. So its really hard to find real passions. Its the same for learning sth. Even we think that we want to learn it, that subject may not be our real passion.

2-Our psychology may not be ready:

Our psychological state needs many things at the same time to be ready to learn sth. Many people are having hyperactivity disorder for instance in the time of so called “modern world”. Digitalization brings more problems than some benefits, I believe so. We have problems to focus sth due to high number of external stimulus such as messages, notifications etc during the day. So that kind of staff prohibits us to manage our focus on sth psychologically. So learning is a long process and we need to be sure that our mood is well to overcome the long learning journey. Trying to have some medical treatment, if you need, can be perfect against this problem. Watching youtube videos about your psychology can also be good start but will not be enough.

3-Learning process can be long and boring:

Since learning is a process and try -fail attempts, we may afraid of starting to learn sth new for our career or personal development. Even we may afraid of failing about that learning issue. So our brain can tell us not to start even, or just stop it. What I believe is that, taking small steps like learning for only 10 minutes in a day, will be good solution to continue the journey. The learning will not occur suddenly, so just give your 10 minutes if you are getting bored about watching videos or reading. If we can continue to do it regularly, we can reach to a certain learning level just like how babies learn to speak by repetition.

4-Fully online courses are not enough

What I have seen is that, online courses are good but not sufficient. Human beings can learn by doing and making mistakes. This is a hard but most efficient way of learning. Reading or watching is not enough if you can not feel like you are a part of it and need to try. During the history humanity learn most of the things by doing and being active in the field. So physically discrete learning methods will not help us to internalize if we do not make practice and try it on our own. If you watch 4–5 hours of videos, you will remember very little on the next day since you can not absorb the knowledge by only watching sth. So even online education is great, we need to try to find some offline, real and physical methods to carry out learning journey.

5-Do not lose your main learning objective

During the process, we may loose our attention and try to look for other details. If we want to learn a new programming language just to help us, we may think that that language should be our main career goal in the future. However, it was not our main goal. So we may have problem to focus again since our objective is clear enough. We may stop doing that course and start to search for other resources. So, we need to remember ourselves what is our main goal again and again. If we really want to change our main goal, off course we can do it. So, we need to clarify it and tell ourselves that our main goal is revised and we can continue in the new path. However, we need to focus on the new goal and continue on it. Changing the goal so frequently is not sth good. Doing sth is better than doing nothing. And finally give yourself some gift after completing each step.