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Learn to Unlearn

The illiterate of the future are not those who can’t read or write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.  –Alvin Toffler             What is unlearning?   Unlearning is the process of realizing that something which we learnt earlier is incorrect, ineffective, or obsolete, admitting it and deciding to erase such bad conditioning and misconceptions out of our mind for good. It is the process of exploring what we have stored in our system and deleting all the unnecessary data. It is the process of saying bye to an old, obsolete, and outdated paradigm, and embracing a new paradigm and willingly undergoing a paradigm shift.   Unlearning means stripping away the beliefs and ways to act/behave/live that have been imposed by our upbringing, by our  education , by the society we live in. It means challenging everything we've come to know as "the way things are supposed to be" and embracing "the way things  are....