What I’m learning is useless. We don’t normally have to do push-ups, pull-ups, or sit-ups in our everyday lives. But still, those exercises aren’t useless—they help keep us in good physical shape. In a similar way, what we learn may be different from what we do in everyday life—but the new learning helps keep us in mental shape. More than that, new learning serves as a resource to help us transfer new ideas into our lives by using metaphor.
