Trying to make sense of..everything.

"I have learned that when I am comfortable, complacent, and sure of myself I am not learning anything.

The only time I learn something is when my comfort, my complacence, and my self-assurance are threatened.

Part of my own strategy for getting through life, then, has been to keep myself, as much as possible, off balance.

I loved being a student, but being a student meant walking into jungles where I was not sure my compass worked and didn't know where the trails might lead or where the tigers lurked.

I grew to like that temporary danger.

I try to inject some danger into my own courses, if only to keep myself off balance.

When I feel comfortable with a course and can predict how it will come out, I get bored; and when I get bored, I am boring.

I try, then, to do all I can to keep myself learning more. I do that in part by putting myself in threatening situations." ~ By Prof Ip