What is learn and what to unlearn, learn first, dear corporate

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How true is the statement ‘as difficult as to learn, so difficult to unlearn also’.  This question is very relevant both to the employees and the corporate as a whole, as they seldom unlearn many things and find themselves in difficult situations.  

 

Perhaps, the problem of why they could not unlearn many things could have its origin from the evolution and adaptation of many species of plants and animals.

 

When we attempt to grow a plant from high altitude region to the costal zone, they fail to grow in most occasions.  Even if the entire climatic requirements are mimicked and created perfectly, still the plants may fail to grow.  If at all they grew, the quality and richness will not be there in those plants.

 

This is true for animals also.  The animals that are born and bread up for a while in zoological garden finds it had to live in jungle if they are relocated.  

 

If we scientifically match all the requirements for the plants and animals, still they may find it difficult to establish themselves in the new habitat.  The reason is beyond adaptation or evolution.

 

Every adaptation comes with two types of learning viz.,

 

1.                  Learning the needs for such adaptation

2.                  The learning of how to adapt

 

The former learning, that is, learning the needs for adaptation are always forgotten once the plant or animals has adapted to the habitat.  But the later learning that is how they have adapted will always leaves a near permanent memory.  This memory will make most plants and animals refuse to change their habitat or refuse to accept the new habitat. 

 

In other words, inability to unlearn what they have learned only causes the real problem.   

 

This is a real problem both the corporate and its employees are facing in general these days.   Most employees develop several talents, showcase and convince their significance to the interview panel and get selected in the corporate with a coveted pay package.  Once they are selected, they start learning how to hold the job and be in the same corporate forever. 

 

Most employees forget their former learning that only their talents got them the job.  But they tends to hold with their later learning that how to stick to the job and secure it.  They refuse to unlearn the secondary learning and easily unlearn and forget their fundamental learning. 

 

The distinction of what one should unlearn and what one should not unlearn, people in the corporate have not yet learned.  That is why they cause enough and more noise and fury to themselves. 

 

Many employees with so much of talents live a miserable life in some corporate.  But they never dare to change their job. 

 

One need to remember that it is not just learning that helps one but one also must learn to unlearn quickly certain things as to win.   Only when they quickly unlearn, the can be available to re-learn. 

 

Therefore, learn to unlearn and be successful otherwise you may make your life worth living only in one habitat and then become extinct. 

 

Dr S Ranganathan, Director, ClinRise Derma Pvt., Ltd., Chennai

 

Learn more from the management book – ‘Jungle wisdom for corporate management – lessons from the university of nature’ by Swami Sukhabodhananda and Dr S Ranganathan

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