Learning means unlearning. Think about this. The process of learning is inextricable from the process of unlearning. You cannot learn if you do not unlearn. This is a waltz; a well-balanced dance. As you unlearn; you learn. As you learn; you unlearn.

Most people in this world are going to approach situations, events, choices and encounters; carrying with them a box full of their lessons gathered thus far in life. A limited box filled to the brim. A pail of ocean water they believe is the ocean itself. All of these individuals will be thinking that there is always a lesson they may conveniently pull out of their box for application to the moment at hand.

These lessons in their boxes come from a variety of places: parents, school, siblings, personal experiences, books, film, sacred text, religions, culture, society, community, so on and so forth. This is the pail of ocean water they believe to be the ocean itself.
Now, inevitably, everyone finds themselves in moments of needing to unlearn a thing in order to utilize what is applicable and beneficial to an ongoing experience or circumstance.

Because nobody will ever face every possible situation in existence, until they are dead. When you are dead, you may then say that you have faced every possible situation in your life. But for as long as you are alive, you are not there yet. For as long as you are alive, you will need to unlearn a thing (a belief, a pattern, a method, a way, an ideal) in order to step up in a moment that calls for something new, something unfamiliar to you.

You will be faced with two choices: revert to what is comfortable and familiar; or, immediately unlearn the familiar in this moment while opening yourself to adapting what you need in this present moment right here and now. Learning on your feet; that's what I call it. Learn on your feet. And to learn on your feet, you must, in that same breath, UNlearn on your feet!

I am not ever impressed by a resolute mind stuck in old, bygone patterns. I am not ever impressed by presentations of morals and ideals upholding bygone methods. This only shows me that you're not going anywhere other than where you currently stand and that I will have no new experiences with you. I don't need to go downward; I in fact need to go upward.

If you learn how to UNlearn; if you master the art of learning and unlearning on your feet; you will already be outperforming the majority of your competition in anything at all. In whatever field you find yourself in. Simply by being quick to unlearn, you have already guaranteed yourself a front row seat to life itself.