On Rewiring the Mind
The importance of unlearning old ideas and behavioural patterns and replacing them with new ones that are better
In my very serious work entitled Meditations on a Wild World (2024), I write:
One of the most important ideas that is gaining a lot of ground in the last years, I reckon, is the notion of unlearning and “rewiring”. Indeed, due to the socioeconomic structure of today’s society (which influences highly the predominant culture) people end up registering in their minds all sorts of bizarre ideas; ideas which, very often, work against their needs and well-being. Managing to unlearn those ideas and transform oneself anew is probably one of the most important things an adult can do for themselves.
Indeed, perhaps the greatest achievement an adult can accomplish is to recreate themselves. That means to stop thinking the ideas that they think, if those ideas are actually wrong; to stop behaving the way they behave, if there are other, better ways to behave; to stop following the people they follow, if those people are actually not as admirable as they currently think, and so on.
It is certainly not easy. As soon as one’s self has been formed, it is very hard, if not impossible, to change significantly. The process may include pain and frustration. Nonetheless, if an adult does manage to do that, it will indeed be the greatest and most fruitful achievement they have ever done in their life — fruitful both for themselves but also to their surroundings: their kids, their friends, and their fellow citizens.
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Having gone through hell and come out the other side — SO worth it to not only take the leap, but push through the plateau/dip when all the cracks show and it looks more impossible than when your optimistic self began 😅