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Incredible capacity, yoursTo learn"I always listen to people say that we stop
learning at five years old, but I don't have proofs that this is true.
Stop and think about this. Since you were five years old up to now, how
many futile things have you learned, not to mention the useful ones?
The human beings have an incredible capacity of learning. I am
convinced, and I will convince you – one way or another – that you
still are a machine of learning new things. The positive side of this
history is that you are able to learn in an incredible and fast way. The
negative side is just that you can learn not only useful things but also
many useless ones.
(...) You are able to learn faster than a computer. What we need it is to know more regarding the subjective experience of the learning process, so that we can manage what we learn and have a larger control about our experience and about what we learn." Richard Bandler In Using Your Brain - for a Change Translated from portuguese version Usando sua Mente by V. V. Vilela
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of the people here is tormented by his own thoughts? You tell to
yourself: 'I would like to take such thing out of my head'. But the most
incredible is that, at first place, you have placed such thing in your
head! The human brain is really fantastic. What he carries the person to
do is absolutely incredible. The problem is not that the brain isn’t
capable of learning, as it has been told us with frequency. The big problem
is just that it learns fast and too well. Think about the phobia case,
for example. It is impressive that the people can remind of being
terrorized every time they see a spider. We never find a phobic person
that looks at a spider and tells: 'Shit, I forgot to feel fear'. Is
there anything that you want to learn in a so deep way? When you look
through this prism, a phobia is a tremendous success of learning. And when
we analyze the history of the phobic person, we’ll see that it was
instantaneous learning: it was necessary just one experience so that he
or she had learnt something that he or she is going to remember by the
rest of his or her life.
