None of us can know
all the things we need to learn before we learn them.
by Alison Bonds Shapiro, M.B.A. in Healing Into
Possibility
Originally published online by Psychology Today
Originally published online by Psychology Today
Did you ever move from one country
or state to another - get a new job - find a new place to live? Do you remember
how many months it took for you to settle into a routine, finding the best
places to buy food, the best route to work, and the local shops? I remember
moving to California from Georgia. It took me months to learn all the
details I needed to know in order to create routines in my new area.
Some time
after I moved the weather turned cold, and I needed to buy a blanket. If I had
still been in Georgia, it would have been easy but when I thought about it, I
realized that I didn't know where the best places to look for a blanket might
be. Until that moment, I had not needed to know.
Of course, I figured it out,
but it took time and information and concentration. The point was I needed new
learning to do something as simple as buying a blanket and I was fully able at
the time.
The other
day I spoke with a woman who suffered neurological injury in the 1950s and
spent time in rehabilitation. In the 1950s people spent much longer in
rehabilitation before going back to their lives than is possible today. This
woman was in a rehab center for a year. Today people are in a rehab center, on
average, 16 -18 days. Think about it.
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