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When did I stop learning?

I was playing WoW this weekend and in guild chat this kid was working on some Calculus and posting the equations and people would argue over the solutions. I honestly had no idea how to go about solving them and yet I know for a fact that 10 years ago I would have been able to whip out the answers in seconds. That pissed me off. Then I start to think about all the other knowledge I acquired in high school and college and have now seemed to let dissolve into the nether reaches of space.

What the hell have I learned lately? When did I stop pushing my brain to limits that I thought were impossible to reach before? The brain is just like a muscle in the sense that if you don’t work it then it atrophies. I have not grown stupid, I just don’t have the brain power that I once had to accomplish simple mathematical tasks. Now is it possible to go back and refresh my mind on how to do Calculus? Of course it would be, but I have no real reason to learn Calculus now since I would never apply it.

However, I can start to learn and put my brain to work again. Part of the problem with blogging is there is no challenge behind it and you can tell when blogs start to fall apart because the author is no longer challenged. The successful blog owners fall under one of two categories: 1) they continue to push their content to levels that push their brains to work harder and harder or 2) they let their brains go numb and they become blogging robots.

Mike has been putting his mind to work developing an iPhone application while Tyme has been raising her WoW IQ. As for myself I tend to believe that I know everything in the world, but we all now that isn’t true. I only know half of the words in the Latin language.

In our lives there seems to be so many times where we stop pursuing. What I mean by that is maybe you get married and you stop pursuing new ways to express to your wife how you love her. You get a career and you stop looking for new ways to have fun in your life. All of a sudden one day we look back and we think what the hell have we been up to besides living life just to live it.

Hopefully you haven’t fallen into any of these traps. Hopefully you are reading this and laughing your ass off thinking to yourself what a sorry soul Scrivs is. Hopefully…meh, you get the idea.