Learning is an all-you-can-eat buffet
It is an established fact that learning is a continuous process that never ceases; by its’ definition learning is the acquisition of knowledge or skills through study, experience, or being taught. Willingness is a crucial coefficient that is underrated.
Imagine yourself at an all-you-can-eat buffet counter with the widest choices of delectable food featuring various courses of the meal — salads, soups, starters et al. Everyone’s first instinct is to scoop out their favourite items onto their limited-sized dishes for their first round.
Hence our first trip to the buffet counter is completely associated with our own likings and passion. While we are enjoying all our favourite food and getting ready for round two; we happen to look over to the other people dining at this buffet, and spot someone indulging in some other interesting food item that’s not on our plate, sparking our curiosity and FOMO. Our second round to the buffet counter thus is fuelled by this quest of trying this new food item that we spotted and, in the process, also giving other food items a try going beyond our primary choices. After this round of experimentation, our third round is meticulously choosing something that will not fill us up so much that we cannot have those tempting desserts to maximise our money’s worth.
This almost standard behaviour of most of us at the buffet counter is how I perceive “learning” to be.
Through the journey of life, the first things that we learn are the ones we are passionate about or where our interest lies; the second level is sparked by competition, and the third is then a survival race while keeping the eye on the prize — the desserts; this cycle keeps changing based on the various stages and priorities both short term and long term. Needless to say; the entire process of learning is subject to our own willingness. The buffet is right there, we need to make an effort to fill in our plates and indulge in learning; whilst keeping in mind that every plate has a limited capacity and overloading this plate wouldn’t allow us to savour everything to the fullest and leave us with a mixed-up mess. We should rather focus on increasing our trips to the source and get into a habit of constant learning.
What one can learn and where from is limitless, the modes/styles of learning are predominantly four — Visual, Auditory, Read/Write, and Kinaesthetic (A kinaesthetic learning style requires that you manipulate or touch material to learn. Kinaesthetic-tactile techniques are used in combination with visual and/or auditory study techniques, producing multi-sensory learning). This cements the fact that learning is constant as all our senses are at play in almost all of our waking hours every day; how much we retain the learning and implement it is solely on us.
One of our unique way of Learning at Fasal is “Friday Talks” where every team member is free to choose a topic and present their discoveries around the chosen topic with the entire Fasal team. The topics that the team members choose are not limited to the agri-tech industry and we facilitate the constant flow of new knowledge through these in-depth engaging talks. This is just one of the many initiatives our team has implemented with utmost dedication to ensure that learning never stops and the techniques of learning delivery are on a constant evolution loop as well.
