January 2016 • Learning by Heart
Learning by heart requires a loose hand on the biases, beliefs and preferences. A wild willingness to be wrong, and cheerful about it. A curiously indifferent stance to both accolades and criticism.
Learning by heart requires a loose hand on the biases, beliefs and preferences. A wild willingness to be wrong, and cheerful about it. A curiously indifferent stance to both accolades and criticism.
It can get uncomfortable when we tune into our own contradictions. But it also makes life more vivid as we cozy up to the “impossible.” And at times it allows the heart to unfold a solution that the mind, with its limits of logic, cannot grasp.