Behind every failure hides a wrong lesson

One of the best teachers I have ever had was at primary school.
She could explain the head breaking formulas in an easy and funny way.
Also she helped me discover the logical thinking I was supposed not to have and from almost suspended in Maths, I became one of the most brilliant students even at Uni. Thank you Mrs. K!
Unfortunately, I also had teachers who didn't understand what they were talking about and therefore no one did neither.

They probably gave me the wrong lesson for something which could be the right subject for me.

I am sure you know what I am talking about.

Life is not about bad experiences, life is about bad examples.

I personally hated the subjects which I couldn't understand and therefore memorise.

Reason why many students fail and human beings consider themselves not smart enough.

One of them was the geography.

Oh dear, the  world is so huge when you are 9!

All those capital cities, rivers, countries, continents, I guess I will have to visit them first to remember where they have hidden themselves on the map.

I think most of the world travellers were not that good at memorising geography. That's why they need to travel, to finally learn the suspended subject.
I used to ask too much and doubt about the green, brown and blue painting which was supposed to represent our world.
Now I can still use this excuse to absent from the theory lesson and say: I am going there and there because I need to check if that colourful map was right about it.

Another hard subject for me was the history.
My history teacher was a frog.
(Btw, have you tried to put an animal face to people during an important meeting?)
The frog cared a lot about Napoleon.
I think you can't explain what the war is until you experience it. And it must be terrible. So why on earth they want you to memorise all those horrible moments, exact number of murdered people and even worse the date of birth of the human assassin?
It's good enough to remember your birthday and the only numbers probably you want to remember at the age of 9 is how many days are left for holidays.

So basically, from the point of view of 9 year old kids, things are exciting and need to have an understandable meaning.
This aspect hasn't changed that much once turning into adults unless you had a bad lesson.
However, as a mature person you cannot blame the teacher anymore.
Because now you are your own teacher.
It's up to you if you speak to yourself clearly and make things understandable.
Or if you want to hide behind the complex theories and excuses that you can't do that and that because you are not qualified enough.

Then, learn it!

The theories don't work, they lie down written in the dusty books.

What really works are mistakes, which you did from trying it your own way.

And then doing new mistakes again and again.

It means you are learning new things. And guess what? You will remember it without the need to memorise everything.

That simple.

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