We all have learning disabilities
Learning disabilities have been only associated with people with special needs for a long time, but when you take a moment to think about it. We all suffer from learning disabilities. If we didn’t, then everyone would know everything and that would be that. But life doesn’t work that way.
The learning disabilities we face are those we put into our minds. People with special needs can’t control there’s. They are either born with them or develop after they are born. But for people who don’t require special needs attention, our learning is within our control.
The idea of writing this blog first came when I heard of the fixed vs growth mindset phenomenon in Make it Stick: The Science of Success Learning. Dr Carol Dweck who wrote Mindset which is surrounded by the idea of fixed and growth mindset says that people put on their own limitations in their minds which hinders their own learning capabilities.
A growth mindset is someone who can see change and continuous improvement within themselves, a fixed mindset is someone who believes that the traits and intelligence they were born with are unchangeable over time.
How about that? The small difference is that it comes down to someone's beliefs. It’s our beliefs that are keeping us going and sometimes holding us back.
No one is perfect, that person who got straight A’s in all of their schooling careers might be physically uncoordinated and bad at sports.
The software engineer who is writing the next multi-billion dollar piece of code might have terrible social intelligence and have a hard time selling and speaking to people. The popular, attractive kid whom everyone loves in university might secretly struggle to read and write well.
No matter who we are, no matter how good we are at certain things, one trait we all share is that we all have a learning disability of some kind in one field or another, myself included.
And that’s ok, you’re not meant to know everything. That’s God's job if you believe in him.
Become aware of your learning disabilities, find them, realise that it’s perfectly healthy to have them, work on them, strengthen your weaknesses, and become better.
We all have work to do. I know I do.
“Don’t be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?” - Marcus Aurelius
Until next time,
Brody
