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Claire writes:
> I tend to resist, with all my might, books & courses that attempt to
>teach human beings how to be human beings.
and then
> My question is not 'how to do it' but when and why did we lose our
natural capacity for dialogue, relationships, cooperative & creative
work?
An analogy with breathing may be useful. Babies do not need to learn to
learn any more than they need to learn to breathe. We surely
begin to learn well before we are able to breathe, which must await
parturition (birth).
But in order to improve performance beyond 'what comes naturally' and
in order to unlearn bad habits, athletes and singers re-learn to
breathe in a more deliberate and conscious way. Unlearning and the
learning of specific learning skills also applies to communicating.
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John Farago
<jfarago@cix.compulink.co.uk>
--jfarago@cix.compulink.co.uk (John Farago)
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