What happens when the goals that once gave your life its shape stop making sense?
Sometimes you've reached them. Sometimes your circumstances shift. And sometimes, life changes so much that the plans and routines you relied on stop working altogether. When the familiar places where we learn, like school, work, community, and travel, suddenly fall away, what happens to learning?
Tune in and listen to the fifty-sixth episode of I Can Do This, Show Me How! I share what I found when the pandemic gave me time to sort through decades of books, papers, and photographs. Among them was The Hero Within by Dr. Carol S. Pearson, a book a friend gave me when I earned my first degree from community college and one I later used in my developmental writing classes. Reading it again, years later, showed me that being the hero of your own story doesn't mean living inside one story forever. I also talk about the moment I stopped waiting for someone else's permission to move forward, and explain why learning in adulthood can mean building enough confidence to act on what we already know.
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