Dear Learners,

Learning is about creating mental buckets to store information. When we learn about nouns, we create a noun bucket in our head. Then, when we need a noun, we quickly retrieve it from the bucket.

It’s a pretty good system! But it’s important to remember that it’s not really about the buckets. It’s about what we store in the buckets. And that stuff moves from bucket to bucket depending on our situation. Because a word that’s sometimes a noun isn’t always a noun.

Some people really love their buckets and think things must always belong in the same bucket all the time. But that’s not how this crazy world works. So get yourself some buckets, but get really good at swapping stuff out of them.

Sincerely,

Mr. Curt