How I learned how to learn.

     The most important thing that i have ever learned, is how to learn. In the early years of formal education, they try to teach you how to share and operate with your peers, but they never really teach you how to learn in the way that works best for you. The way that I learned how to learn, was by experience, much like it is for most people. You have to find what works best for you.
     The reason that this is the most important thing that i have ever learned, is because now I have a more complex, analytical view at everything I'm told. To learn isn't to listen, it isn't to jot down on your notes and regurgitate later on a test or essay, to learn is to take an idea and mold it to fit your own life and to use it to your advantage. Much like a mason as he builds a house, each brick can not simply be thrown onto a spot on the ground, they each have to be coated with the proper amount of adhesive and applied to the correct spots so that the house will not just topple over. They never teach you that in school, ever, its a personal lesson, to learn how to learn.