What are the limits to human brain capacity? Are we able to remember and retain an unlimited amount of information? What about that 10% crap that we learn in school?

I seem to want more and more knowledge in my brain at the same time, and in order to provide my brain with enough to “satisfy” it, I am constantly reading, researching, and taking in more knowledge.

But I don’t feel like I’m getting smarter. I feel like the more I learn, there’s more and more I want to learn, and I get caught in the shame of not knowing anything about something I thought I just learned (yes, that sentence was intended to be excruciatingly confusing).

The reason is that people who enjoy learning–and I believe that’s everyone–decide they want to learn everything there is to know, but get caught up in the things they find they enjoy the most. I don’t know a whole lot about most things, because I’ve spent so much time in the things I do know.

Example: I understand more about music than most people I know because long ago when I decided I was going to start learning everything, I got stuck in music. I recently got stuck in business too, and here I am: blogging and building a network (read: empire) about business and what I think I know about it.

So ask yourself: “Do I want to learn everything, or do I want to learn about the things I want to learn about?” The answer should be yes to both questions, because you can’t get to the second without realizing the first. The challenge, however, is to not be frustrated when you realize you’ve slowed your learning. It’s at that point that you’ve just gotten yourself stuck in something you want to know.

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