Poem- Unlearn and learn

Debjeet Das
2 min readMar 30, 2022

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Things that have been serving your purpose till now might not be the best for your future course.

Things that are losing their shine must not be dragged forcefully to get them endorsed.

A fixed mindset of seeing the future through the lens of the past will not work.

Dismissing the force of change as small and negligible will only blur your vision and fill it with murk.

The baggage of past learning that is redundant must be removed without any restraint.

Learning new things again from scratch to better deal with paradigm changes without any complaint.

The awareness of what skills to acquire and the wisdom of what knowledge to discard will assist you in becoming future ready.

Imbibing a changing mindset without feeling threatened or worried will help you stay afloat, keeping your boat steady.

If incorrect learning is allowed to persist, unnecessary space is occupied for the storage of something that is of little use.

Learning the new, unlearning the irrelevant, and relearning the necessary is the way to go to keep most of the memory juice.

Embrace change quickly as the world around you changes to avoid being left behind.

To not only survive, but also to thrive, needless knowledge must come off the sleeve after a certain time to make future journeys more refined.

Instead of modifying an existing building, build a new one from scratch to give it the shape and strength you require.

Let the new edifice that is built help you keep pace with the fast moving world as you desire.

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Debjeet Das
Debjeet Das

Written by Debjeet Das

former Banker in SBI, author of 9 books

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