Sounds That You Can't Hear

This concept really unfolded for me when I was listening to my wife describe a person with a speech problem. She explained that when people are about one or two it is the best time to learn new languages. As we get older we start to hold on to the language that we use and it becomes increasingly difficult for us to learn new languages. Our hearing becomes so in tune with what we know we don't even hear what we don't know. So the person with the speech problem actually had a hearing problem. His brain had never learned certain sounds so of course he can't replicate a sound he can't hear, hence the speech problem.
            This is the same problem we have in other parts of our lives. We are so in tune with what we have learned that we stopped being able to even hear what we haven't. So those who have ears let them hear. The idea is that not everyone does. Some people have an ear for music and others don't the sounds are the same it is the listener that changes.
            If you want change in your life you will have to work hard to unlearn what you think you know so that you can then replace it with what you don't. This starts with listening. So listen close. A free person starts as a listening slave.

*This is interesting to me for a few reasons. One because it mentions my wife and I haven't been married for some time and two because unlike some of the other ideas in this writing this one I had forgotten about. I have gotten very interested in neuro plasticity since the time this was written. I am always trying to find out what I can change in myself and what is a permeant fixture. For some time I was amazed at how much can change but that has brought me back to the things that I have to accept and knowing the difference. Brains change over time so I have tried to build a more long term plan for myself. Fr a long time I had a short term, survival mentality and when you are in that mode there is no margin to plan long term. I thought that either I would die or the world would end and we would all die. Now I have made it through so much I tend to watch the thoughts of doom come and go. I still have a sense of anxiety in my day to day life that is far too constant but I have learned to sit with it. I remind myself that everyone who has thought the world would end has been wrong. Or at least the entire world. People who bet on nature overcoming tend to win. With 5G coming and that being my biggest concern (it seems no one worried about global warming doesn't know anything about 5G) but I trust that a solution will follow the problem. 

I have to start to listen for the things my brain hasn't been programed to hear in order to take things to the next level. We'll see.