Peeling The Onion: Part I Learning is Like Peeling an Onion

Learning is like peeling an onion.

We read a blog on how to blog or how to photograph, and we take something away from it. A year later we reread it, and find something else. We could only take in one layer of the onion at a time.

Go back and read a book several years later - it's almost as if it's a different book you're reading. What you get out of it is something other than the first time. We can only take in what we're ready for - which must lead to the comment that When the Student Is Ready, the Teacher will Come.

We go to seminars, and we hear some of the same things. Maybe we ignored it before, maybe we didn't try it. Maybe it's only this year that we get the AHA!