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If you cannot teach people to learn, anything you attempt to teach them before that will be ineffective. Like learning math, learning learning is a process; but more importantly, it comes first. Almost all human brains have the potential to develop depth - to create a true and complex relationship with the world. This relationship is the only foundation for a conscious animal to begin thinking and it is the only way for consciousness to mature from randomness to process. Once a man transitions to process thinking it becomes a "firing on all cyclinders" position in regards to the world. This man, if he wills it, can become good at anything.

This idea, that all men can develop their brain and that only by first learning critical thought as it is a foundation for general learning, was Rand's idea long before I wrote it. This is a testament to how "used" ideas are but also how forgotten. I have often said that I never say anything new. And this is true about fundamental learning.