While our ability to develop on the fly complex maps and models to guide us gives us advantages, it also has turned out to provide us with some of thorniest problems.
These problems arise when the world around us changes but we continue to use the map of how it used to be.
Its like going to a strange city carrying a map that was made of a city before they built the city’s current maze-like freeway system.
We drive along and encounter a freeway where there used to be just a long boulevard. With the inaccurate map, we get lost.
As long as we continue to rely on the old map, we have a hard time getting our bearings. We have no way of knowing which parts of the map are still accurate and which ones should be ignored.
Our beliefs and belief systems can become like these no-longer-useful maps.. Our habit patterns make giving up beliefs that have worked long time difficult There become times when it would be much better to drop the old map, give up the old belief and find our way without one. The failure to do so can become a serious problem.
As we move move through life and accumulate more firmly entrenched beliefs, these may prove harder to give up. The ability to adapt to new information is the essence of learning. Lack of flexibility and adaptability, hanging on to old, outmoded beliefs inhibits our ability to learn.
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