Johannes Lockwood

1. See Yourself Afresh — This is one of my favorite quotes from Tyler: “Treat yourself like a piece of your writing which you set aside for a week so you could look at it fresh.”

Michelangelo, da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein, et al. were all committed to lifelong learning — but that is not the reason we should build our intentions around, because people tend to give up sooner when fighting a battle that is not really their own. We all need to have our own reasons for committing to lifelong learning. This is worth repeating. Having a strong “why” is just as important as the design of the curriculum, if not more.

Understanding, however, is more fluid. You have learned a particular kind of knowledge, but you don’t see it as a fact or a truth applied rigidly to one thing. Rather, you understand that knowledge’s essence and you can see how it relates to everything else, with nuances and contradictions included.