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STOP DEFENDING WHAT’S DESTROYING YOU
If you can’t unlearn, you can’t survive — and the world won’t wait for you to catch up.
Keep Clinging to the Past — and Watch How Fast the Future Buries You
People cling to old beliefs like life vests, even when those beliefs are sinking ships. This is more dangerous today than ever before. Especially in a century where survival depends not on how much you know, but on how quickly you can unlearn, relearn, and pivot.
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Why People Struggle to Let Go
Human beings find it difficult to let go of the beliefs they've held for so long.
Even when presented with new evidence, facts, and figures, they still cling to outdated ideas because of emotional and sentimental attachments. Confirmation bias kicks in. Ego kicks in. Fear of change kicks in.
Psychology and sociology have a long list of terms for this phenomenon — but the bottom line is simple: people are too scared to grow.
And in this dispensation, the illiterate isn’t the one who can’t read or write — it’s the one who can’t unlearn and relearn.
