Essential Question: How much do I actually reflect on what I learned and put the skills into practice?
In the fast-paced, erratic, frenzied and distracted world we live in today, it’s easy to get caught up in the newest things. Even in school, it’s so easy to learn new material and forget them later on, endangering our knowledge of the basics. We discount our lived experiences, always carrying on to new things, striving to achieve new goals, and constantly looking forward to fulfill new, unmet expectations.
But how often do we actually reflect upon our past successes?
For me, the answer is not very often. I remember all my past failures, which have made me stronger, but the amount of time that I have reflected upon past learnings and successes has been… very minimal.
Even for competition math, there are countless notebooks that I’ve scribbled upon and never looked at more than twice. For school, I’ve never looked at past papers or notes except when it became absolutely necessary for an upcoming assessment. I don’t look at past videos of swim meets. Unless I’m bored and have nothing to do, I almost never look at anything I wrote down before the past week beside my calendar.
It’s good in a way, because it shows that I move on pretty quickly.
But it also hinders my memory when it comes to learning important life lessons.
I have around six hundred files in my Obsidian vault. I’ve only looked at around $5\%$ more than once.
That says something.