#32.- Prune time

Usually, winter is the prune time. Prune is a way to prepare the trees for the next season and giving them the opportunity to produce more fruits. Usually, when we prune something, we remove all these parts  that are bad, or are not modelled as we want.

Applying these concepts to our personal or professional life, pruning, is a way to make our bag lightweight, enabling us to walk faster o giving space to put new things on the bag.

In an speech that I've received today, this is called "unlearning". For me this is a new, powerful and frightening (because it is unknow for me) concept.

I've participated in an experiment where I've learned that sometimes is better not knowing something than knowing it. But if you know it, your mental model block you from learning new things. In these cases is necessary unlearn, and this is not easy, because that means loose something that you have.

Good News are that psychologists are studying how to help people to do this process easier and enabling oneself to go further, minimizing the pain of doing that.

If you don't prune fruit trees on winter, year after year, the tree maybe produces more fruits, but, for sure, smaller and weaker.

Then, start to unlearn to leverage you to new horizonts!