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Learning and Unlearning

A lot of Jargons are being made up today in order to define something very simple. I came across one such Jargon - "Unlearning". Let us dive deep and understand what the term really means... Original Story by Prashant Sachdev Learning is a continuous process. It starts on the day we are born. Most people link learning to education. However, our subconscious mind is too inquisitive to stop learning at the age of 25. As a matter of fact, your subconscious mind is currently trying to judge the author of this article amongst a thousand other things. No matter how much we learn, the subconscious/conscious mind would try to restrict new knowledge that contradicts any knowledge we currently possess. This new knowledge may or may not be valuable. It's like the Schrödinger's Cat! You'll only know the current state of the Cat if you open the box! Unlearning Unlearning has been referred to as discarding of false information/toxic information etc. by many people. However, in