Learn from the forerunners.

THE GAINS OF TEACHABILITY.

Olakunle Soriyan once said, "There has to be foolish people around, for the wise to be celebrated." Similarly, there has to be ignorant people for people of knowledge to be celebrated. No one in life is an island of knowledge, no one knows it all. The moment you claim to know everything, you declare your ignorance.

You do not know more by pretending to know all, but you know more by accepting the degree of your knowledge. The people who know so much about alot of things are people who have been humble enough to want to learn from anybody irrespective of their age or social class. Our experience, exposure, and perspective about life determines how we respond to the gap of knowledge between us and some other persons we feel we should be more knowledgeable than.

In the words of Criss Jami, "The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain." There is more pain in being unteachable, you get to go through the pain that you would have skipped if you had through humility released yourself to be taught. Life is a very good teacher, but sometimes the scars that some unpleasant experiences leave is irreversibly unnecessary.

Give yourself to learning from people's experiences, enjoy the luxury of going on a ride through a road that has been threaded by others who have gotten to the destination you wish to arrive. Be willing, and ready to be a beginner at whatever you have not afore learnt. Be a teachable student of life.

Kamikun John, Author 366 days of wisdom.