Why I decided to quit my learning addiction

2019 has been a year of radical fasting.

After a whole life of binging on trainings, courses, lectures, classes (insert every learning modality in existence) … this year I decided to go cold turkey and resist my addictive drive to fill every second of my time trying to absorb new information.

If you know me, this is no small feat (specially being an obsessively curious triple Sagittarius).

Truth be told, I’ve realized how for the longest time I chose to hide by learning ABOUT life (intellectually) rather than FROM life (experience), cos let’s be honest it’s waaay more pleasant to read about vulnerability (hey @brenebrown ) rather than having an uncomfortable and vulnerable chat with your beloved.

Yet I’ve realised that having tons of intellectual knowledge is absolutely USELESS if you can’t anchor/apply it in your life.

No matter how many cool authors or spiritual teachers you can quote, if you haven’t actually made their teachings yours they’ll be kinda empty/boring when you recite them while trying to impress someone.

Bottom line: You can’t fake wisdom. There’s no shortcut to it. No amount of books, podcasts or lectures will ever be as powerful as real life. Wisdom is a knowing that has roots. It’s ALIVE and comes from experience rather than from memory.

So my external input has been reduced to being in the world and having as many adventures as possible, i.e. being in nature, traveling and having juicy conversations with friends & strangers. [Bonus points for doing stuff for the first time or getting into situations that are way beyond my comfort zone.]

And when I get the withdrawal shakes I get my butt out the door or start journaling rather than defaulting into signing up for an upcoming kundalini workshop.

Guess you could say I’m in a period of digestion. Of assimilation. Of putting into practice. Of integrating. Of making knowledge mine. Of living fully (even if I fall flat on my face a gazillion times).

And I gotta say so far it’s been pretty damn good (even if it’s fcking intense sometimes).

Happy weekend, may your days be infused with lived wisdom ♥️