Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Not knowing keeps you in a smaller room than the one you could be living in. It narrows what you can imagine wanting, who you are able to understand, and how many options you can see when something goes wrong. Learning is how that ceiling lifts, and it works in any direction: a craft, a language, another person’s history, the workings of a thing you use daily. The lift is real whatever you believe about what lies above.

Choose one subject you have felt vaguely ashamed of not understanding and give it two hours this week. Shame tends to dissolve once the learning starts.