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your brain working out the new sense of cross-laterality as you do

this! Crossing your arms the unnatural way is an image of what is

involved when you try to relearn your adventurous spirit.

Here are some more simple ideas:

Ask your partner or a friend to arrange an evening out with you,
doing something of their choice, when all you know is what time
you need to meet up.

Try a different mode of transport to get to work for a day.

Go to a concert of a kind of music that you don’t normally listen
to.

Organize a visit to a business that is apparently nothing like yours
and make a note of what you could learn for your place of work.

How adventurous are you feeling? If you need to rekindle your capacity for adventure, use

some of the ideas above to help you. Then make a list of some ideas of your own to try.

Successful learners in the Knowledge Age are like the merchant

adventurers of old or the galactic explorers in the television series

Star Trek. To boldly go where others may not have been, even if only

in your mind, requires an inner strength. Elie Wiesel, Nobel prize

winner and holocaust survivor, puts it like this:

We must understand that there can be no life without risk, and when our
center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.

To be successful, you need to keep the center of your being strong

and fit. And the center is many-faceted, as I hope this book makes

clear. For at the center is your ability to learn. If you are a compe-

tent learner, then all things are possible. The center will be most

challenged when you come up against difficult or confusing things.

Dealing with difficulties

Despite their good intentions, many people simply do not complete

their learning because they hit some kind of difficulty and do not

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