Why you stop Growing

Socrates is one of the prominent philosophers we learn about in western philosophy. Oracle of Delphi also declared that Socrates was the wisest person in the world. When Socrates heard this, he said, “Oracle was wrong” and said, “All I know is one thing that I know nothing.” Socrates is the most knowledgable man in all of Athens in his time. Still, he prefers to think that he knows nothing!

What can we learn from him?

Never say I know everything. Saying that will limit our capacity to learn because when we think we already know everything, we stop growing. This type of thinking will also contribute to our ego, and we will lead to ignorance.

Just look at young children, they realise that they know nothing; that is why they consistently ask questions, many many questions!. In the early years, a kid needs to learn a new language, learn social norms, emotions, body language, how physics works how gravity works, how hot objects hurt and many more things.

He learns as many new things in a single year that an average adult will learn in a decade.

But somewhere along the way while growing up physically, we stop growing intellectually.

Therefore never stop asking questions and never say we know everything.