97% of what you learn is bounced knowledge, i.e. borrowed knowledge from someone, as one of the CNBC technical analysts posted this afternoon in his Instagram story.
This actually makes sense. Learning occurs from various sources, even unknowingly from those which remain untraced for years. Then one evening when you're down with four pints of beer, you come across a solution for your failed marriage, despicable career, or intense midlife crisis. There you stay dumbfounded at the idea for a while and ask yourself, "What the hell did I get it from?"
In my salad days, I learnt a poem of Sunirmal Basu by heart, which I later set to tune, "Akaash amay sikkha dilo udar hote bhai re" which roughly translates as 'the sky taught me to be generous.' The idea of learning from various sources isn't at all an exaggeration, nor admitting it is a sign of superficial humbleness. This idea echoed in many other songs by Tagore, Guru Gyan Prakash Ghosh et al, from whom all I learnt how to live a life.
To end this on a slightly humorous yet revealing note, a while back, I was talking to a girl I had dated eight years back. She entrusted me with an important decision of her life: whom should she marry - her five years old boyfriend who has a decent job or another old flame who is a photographer, disappeared for three years and came back again in her life with a better version?
She has found her prophet who is a terrible guy to date but an insightful and perfect dating/matchmaking coach. Isn't it the same way we mistake sometimes a trainer for a teacher?
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