Do not be ashamed to learn – anything at any age. Learning is investing in future. A learning mind is like a superconductor. It has no preconceived notions and prejudices – it has no resistances. When there is no resistance, electricity keeps flowing freely – on and on and on. When there are no preconceived notions and prejudices in the mind, knowledge keeps flowing freely - on and on and on.
We can, for instance, learn from a child. While learning to walk, the child falls down, cries but gets up again to walk – and this happens any number of times. The adult also cries when he fails - but he rarely attempts to start his efforts once again, let alone trying till he succeeds. The British warrior Robert Bruce was once hiding in a cave in Scotland after he got defeated – abandoning all hoping of winning back his kingdom. Then he happened to observe in the cave a spider climbing up the wall; halfway through, it falls, climbs again and falls again - and the spider keeps trying to climb tirelessly, until in the end, it reached the top of the wall. Observing this, the king went back, gathered his army and finally won over his enemies.
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