{"id":5390,"date":"2021-03-16T10:26:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T04:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=5390"},"modified":"2021-03-16T10:26:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T04:56:37","slug":"unlearn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/16\/unlearn\/","title":{"rendered":"unlearn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I finished reading Adam Grant&#8217;s: Think Again. The book talks about the power of learning by unlearning, shedding our biases, and seeing people, the world around us more objectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We live in a society, spend time with people who agree with our view. It is like living in a walled garden with limited knowledge and groupthink. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once we see the world as it is. When we question ourselves and our ideologies, we become more aware. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been unlearning, debunking some myth about my learning.  I have also noticed, reading can be the best aid. It helps with unlearning, rethinking, and making us question more about everything in our life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are eating fruits healthy for us?<br>\nThe modernization of Europe, building castles: who financed it? <br>\nAre financial bubbles bad for civilization in the long run? <br>\nIs nationalism has anything to do with religion?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These were some questions whose answers I thought I already knew. I got busted, as all my beliefs were wrong. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our progress depends on how much we learn, progress, curiosity, and unlearning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All my myths, biases are broken into little little pieces. I think reading is one of the best virtue one can acquire, it makes you better with time like wine.<\/p>&mdash; Atul Jha (@koolhead17) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/koolhead17\/status\/1371682981438353408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished reading Adam Grant&#8217;s: Think Again. The book talks about the power of learning by unlearning, shedding our biases, and seeing people, the world around us more objectively. We live in a society, spend time with people who agree with our view. It is like living in a walled garden with limited knowledge and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/16\/unlearn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;unlearn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[1102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5391,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5390\/revisions\/5391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}