THE TIMES OF CANADA MAY 2021
Get Ready to
UNLEARN L
et us start with a simple question - What is unlearning? Simply put, unlearning is the process of discarding something from your memory. When you are able to successfully unlearn, you will forget it and lose knowledge of it. It is relatively simple for us to learn and relearn a subject of our choice but most of us don’t exactly know what unlearning means, and for those who do, unlearning something seems to be really challenging and almost impossible to complete. In a fast-changing environment caused by the economic hardship of a pandemic, business owners need to learn and adapt with greater speed than normally required. When the rules keep changing on an almost day to day basis, one’s ability in letting go of old rules and learning new ones becomes critically important. I can already hear your next question – Why do we need to unlearn something? I would like to share a quote by Alwin Toffler, futurist and philosopher “ The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” Business owners and their employees need to unlearn their old ways in order to move forward quickly and increase
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