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A Hard Knock Education: Self-discipline and experience make a life-long learner

Education is an amalgamation of life experience, structured study, and critical thinking. From this perspective there are different ways to examine education and the coinciding knowledge that can be obtained.

How can we overcome a victim mentality and begin to see a clear direction and success in our midst? How can we learn to approach life as a thriving member of society as opposed to simply a survivor just getting by day by day?

In the book “A Life at Work” by Thomas Moore the idea of a polycentric life is discussed. It is explained that we can approach life and our life’s work as polycentric, or with many important and central themes.

“The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. ” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

It happens to everyone; the struggle to recall some bit of information or to create a new and innovative idea. All encompassing mental energy is being used to problem solve and create. The idea seems to be just on the tip of our tongue, though still out of reach. Our memory is usually very good, and with nearly unlimited capability to store long-term memories, we have experiences and information stored that we don’t remember ever encoding, and that can’t be recalled on a conscious or explicit level. Be this as it may, at times our memory of course fails us, and we are unable to retrieve or