Unlearning – why is it so hard?

My mistake i deleted my comments..after posting it three times (LOL)..but Mr Shah has very nicely detailed about this...and as usual...

Learning is infinity, there has not any limit. As, Murthy sir has mentioned "People Resist to change", that's true. I would like to add few things and reasons:-

(1) First thing is that, it is going down the use of word " WHY " in schools, colleges, training etc. People learn more when they raise hand ans ask " WHY ". People change themselves from unlearn to learn by "WHY".

(2) The others things about " Perception". Normally, we perceive or predict many things towards people or group of people. It is vice verse that Unlearn to learn & learn to Unlearn. Many people are willing to learn but due to lack of support or knowledge, or any other factors, people can not learn as they are expecting.However, they learn so many things which they are not expecting.

(3) Every person have own uniqueness or specialty and every person have own weakness. Still, they are learning and sometime they do not know themselves that they have been learned. 

Person is learning at the age of 70-80 years, still many person will not satisfy , their colleague will tell them surprisingly that " still, you did not improve yourself at 70 years, still you do not know about this things etc" 

After 10 years, we all will be learning... from unlearn to learn & learn to unlearn.


Nice article. Thanks for sharing it.

Learning is a "continuous"  process! No learned person in the world can claim that the learning he imbibed by virtue of experience would be able to solve all the problems of the world! The world is in real transition, and innovation is the real challenge that every individual should attempt to find new ways to work around a problem!  Like  'wear  and tear' is the common phenomenon in the mechanical devices, we tend to become 'obsolescence'  once we stop learning new ways, for which one  needs to shed old methods in order to keep pace in the race! 

Learning is infinity, there has not any limit. As, Murthy sir has mentioned "People Resist to change", that's true. I would like to add few things and reasons:-

(1) First thing is that, it is going down the use of word " WHY " in schools, colleges, training etc. People learn more when they raise hand ans ask " WHY ". People change themselves from unlearn to learn by "WHY".

(2) The others things about " Perception". Normally, we perceive or predict many things towards people or group of people. It is vice verse that Unlearn to learn & learn to Unlearn. Many people are willing to learn but due to lack of support or knowledge, or any other factors, people can not learn as they are expecting.However, they learn so many things which they are not expecting.

(3) Every person have own uniqueness or specialty and every person have own weakness. Still, they are learning and sometime they do not know themselves that they have been learned. 

Person is learning at the age of 70-80 years, still many person will not satisfy , their colleague will tell them surprisingly that " still, you did not improve yourself at 70 years, still you do not know about this things etc" 

After 10 years, we all will be learning... from unlearn to learn & learn to unlearn.


Nice article. Thanks for sharing it.

Learning is infinity, there has not any limit. As, Murthy sir has mentioned "People Resist to change", that's true. I would like to add few things and reasons:-

(1) First thing is that, it is going down the use of word " WHY " in schools, colleges, training etc. People learn more when they raise hand ans ask " WHY ". People change themselves from unlearn to learn by "WHY".

(2) The others things about " Perception". Normally, we perceive or predict many things towards people or group of people. It is vice verse that Unlearn to learn & learn to Unlearn. Many people are willing to learn but due to lack of support or knowledge, or any other factors, people can not learn as they are expecting.However, they learn so many things which they are not expecting.

(3) Every person have own uniqueness or specialty and every person have own weakness. Still, they are learning and sometime they do not know themselves that they have been learned. 

Person is learning at the age of 70-80 years, still many person will not satisfy , their colleague will tell them surprisingly that " still, you did not improve yourself at 70 years, still you do not know about this things etc" 

After 10 years, we all will be learning... from unlearn to learn & learn to unlearn.


Nice article. Thanks for sharing it.

Learning is a continuous process. For learning there are no barriers.   Updating the acquired knowledge is required for any person at any stage to cope with the times.    If you are satisfied with what you gained, that puts you at a saturating level which does not allow any further intake.  Continuous learning is the culture of a learning organisation, there is no place for the rotten who resist change. So, make your organisation a learning organisation. 

Good Article ! The first thing a Management Lecturer told me long ago is "People resist change."  While recruiting candidates, I look for the "willingness to learn quality." Whatever may be the qualifications/experience, any person unwilling to learn is doomed.