Dilip Mukerjea writes in his new book, Learning How to Learn (not yet released; still in the works; this is a sneak preview!)

LEARN HOW TO LEARN WITH LOVE

If you wish to continue leading, you must continue learning! You do not win the race by being the best but by staying the best. If you have a great learning acquisition engine, then the next step is to have a great learning retention engine. 

A relationship is made up of a continuing series of collaborative interactions, all of which apply to you becoming a learning superorganism. Press on with your dreams, no matter how fierce the challenge. Setbacks are given to ordinary people to make them extraordinary: If you cannot, you must; If you must, you can! 

Success is an outcome of focused thought and action, within flowcentric conditions that exhilarate our emotions, excite our senses, energise our bodies, and elate our minds. 

When you are creating something meaningful you are bringing to life something that would never have existed if you had not been there. So, be kind to your mind, and unleash the gems of genius that are within you.

BE KIND TO YOUR MIND!

THE TASK AHEAD OF YOU IS NEVER AS GREAT AS THE POWER WITHIN YOU. 

There are deep, ongoing mutations that are revolutionising the way our lives are being lived. 

Two overarching factors that are producing a transformative impact are: 

(1) the rapid development of cybernetics and information technology 

(2) globalisation and the massive power of these two forces working together. 

Great leaders are great learners. They take every opportunity to keep learning, again and again. 

The youth of today are developing a wide attention range and a short attention span. These young minds are accustomed to a multimedia and multichannel learning style with frequent interruptions. 

Learning in a vacuum rarely leads to the kind of profound discipline it takes to reach beyond ourselves into the new world of ability and experience. Like building muscles, development does not happen all at once. 

It happens over time that is spent in the realm of the unfamiliar, disorienting, and perplexing. How high do we reach? What are our values, and what is the essence of our character? 

Discipline is the key, and aspiration is the spirit in learning that enables us to extend beyond our limits to reach our dreams. It is why this book is being crafted. 

Throughout their careers, the artist geniuses Picasso and Matisse saw each other as rivals rather than as friends. But they followed each other’s work intimately. Matisse once wrote to Picasso, “We must talk to each other as much as we can. 

When one of us dies, there will be some things the other will never be able to talk of with anyone else.” Stay stimulated like Picasso and Matisse! 

We are transitioning through game-changing times in a world of increasing risk and opportunity. This scenario calls on us to attain a balance between masculine assertiveness and feminine sensitivity. 

In the face of multifarious challenges, we need to be open to uncertainty and ambiguity, be willing to embrace the unknown, and yet maintain perspective. 

Today’s unstoppable political, marketspace, and technological forces call upon us to function beyond the normal thought horizons, to reskill, and reclaim the high ground. 

The shelf-life of any advantage is shrinking, competitive intensity is escalating, and there is a premium on speed, flexibility, and innovation. 

As a consequence, we should never cease from negotiating cross-cultural complexities, enhancing opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves when life seems most challenging, and thus ever striving to create a spiritual sacrament that projects our humanity in the best light possible. 

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. I do not believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. 

One of the reasons this book is being written is to address the question “Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of noble human purposes?” 

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. 

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that. 

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

There is a specific area of the brain area called the left inferior parietal lobule, which is especially pronounced in humans and not seen at all in lower animals. It is where all the senses come together — touch, vision, hearing, the other senses — and when that is damaged, people lose the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking. 

This extends to diluting their ability to learn. But even without this part of the brain under attack, too many amongst us are not using our senses to learn, and especially, to learn how to learn. 

It is thus my hope that this book can help to awaken the dormant forces that lie unaddressed within us. 

Please learn, and keep on learning! Keep track of your learning tasks to ensure you make exponential gains in your status quo.