The hardest part of learning is the unlearning.
It takes years for the mind to loosen its grip on sweet poisons,
the accumulation of stagnant information and stultified facts,
the rubble of theories and concepts, sediment in the brain,
a sleepwalker stuck in freshly poured concrete,
all that has become precious and customary and indispensable,
all that has made cherished and unquestionable sense.
The deepest learning occurs in that moment of turning,
when the current you are rowing against
becomes the current you are rowing with
and the direction you are rowing is out to sea,