Are You A Learned?

While growing up as a sincere girl with a lot of aspirations and dreams in my eyes I had always considered LEARNING as a collection of data I was supposed to cram, flaunt & showcase with my marks and stage presence. The added in-depth effect of continually sitting long hours in my study zone was an end result of the fear which my mom had always created on me for my studies. Never did I develop the slightest of relationship with my History, Geography, Biology & Economics to blossom the beauty of their flowers in my autumn lifestyle.

It was then when my story had a gigantic twist and a so-called core technical qualified Engineer decided to move in the role of overlooking, managing & developing human resources; one of the most precious assets of any business. The story didn’t end here rather I said to myself “Mere Dost Picture Abhi Baki Hai”. And thereafter it was just not a leftover movie clip after an intermission but an entirely new movie series with its multiple seasons streaming in my life every single day.

 All my definitions of learning or rather being a learned were shaken and made broken at all those instances where I was struggling to create new rules, regulations, defining processes and training others. It was again the power of those hundreds of books and courses I took to understand human psychology, adult learning and business needs. Thanks to all scholars who had given bountiful thoughts to understand all odds I was facing in my career journey. But believe me, I was still not a learned rather just a young Vasco Da Gama who began his journey to discovery. And after this small mile covered in the journey of wanting to be a being LEARNED, I could define it as a budgeted happy meal of following items:

Firstly LEARNING- In the digital era we are getting an overflow of teachings and learning’s from all directions in the form of videos, articles, online courses and certifications. But as individuals aligning our goals of being learned we need to be clear on what should be our need of learning versus our wants of learning. A fixed schedule needs to be created in enhancing ourselves in direction to our purpose of life and leisure time to know and understand all that is going around us.

Secondly QUALIFICATION- Most of the times our aspirations of degrees and certifications are inspirations created because of our peers and relatives. It’s a crucial part of being a learned that we invest our time, money and efforts to get certified or accreditation with the focus to showcase it in our journey of vision. As degrees are just as good as the knowledge reaped out from them and their utility in our lives.

Thirdly EXPERIENCE- We generally underestimate the power of experiencing in this virtual world and feel that just hearing or reading could get us to the eternity of being learned in a particular field. Nevertheless, we should never underestimate the value of experiencing real-life scenarios and facing them. Though we all subscribe to many health channels on youtube still we visit a surgeon to get operated. Hence experiential learning plays an important role in crafting us to be learned.

Finally ACTION- It’s all about our ACTIONS; as much learning, certifications or experience we carry all results to failure in direction to attain the title of being a LEARNED unless we ACT RIGHT AT RIGHT TIME.

Hence being LEARNED is a collection of all Knowledge, Qualifications & Experiences which stays with us as a treasure and is shown in the ACTIONS which we perform each day.