Am I ready to learn?

Many texts on the Internet deal with questions on how to find the right course or school, how to pick the right trainer or mentor, but there aren’t many texts on whether we are the right students… for whatever we would like to learn.
‘It’s easier to look for the perfect solution than to look yourself in the mirror.’
Along with a bunch of examples of me being a bad student, there is a couple of them when things turned out well. Here is one of them.
At one point, twelve years ago, I started doing an activity related to people with specific problems, which at the time surpassed my engineering logic, knowledge and skills. For several months I had been looking for ways to improve that job. I read texts on the Internet and books, talked to experts and people who had overcome the problems that the people I helped faced, but it didn’t help me much.
Then, after a long search (when the student was ready), I learned about the book of our well-known psychotherapist and after having read it in one night, I learned about the counselling and psychotherapy school that this man organizes. Bingo!
As I learned about it, when the course at the time was half-way done, and I didn’t want to wait half a year to start a new one, I convinced the administration to let me join the group and later to make up for the classes I missed with the new group. Also, after a month, in the group we discussed if it would be good to attend the second year of studies simultaneously (yes, I was the loudest on the issue) and after a bit more negotiations with the administration they let us do it. In less than a year I finished two years of studies.
Together with the majority of psychologists and few doctors I was the only engineer. Many of them had already worked with people and surely I wasn’t the best student, but undoubtedly I was the fastest to make progress. It’s better to say I worked my fingers to the bones. I read all the books I found and talked to all the people, who I thought, could help me in any way possible. I have attended this school for several years and during the time I made a couple of significant psychotherapy theories which I presented at the Congress of Psychotherapists. I took part in a work group of the late Claude Steiner, held courses of business psychology and offered counselling services in psychotherapy, business and educational context.