How do you cope with learning new things?

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I hate learning new things, but I do love when my brain finally makes the connects and new data suddenly becomes relevant.

I have a very, very, very long lag phase in learning. I have to flounder around in data from multiple sources and multiple inputs over long periods of time before eventually, something clicks. The light bulb lights. I get it.

As a consequence, I do not want to have to learn new things for work. To run my business under the new state paradigm, I have had to learn about workers compensation, payroll taxes, federal labor laws, expanded hipaa laws, etc., etc. I have zero interest in these things and had a huge meltdown in opposition to learning these things.

I'm coping well now, but it isn't over.

So, for me, learning new things means knowing I am going to spend a lot of time lost and feeling stupid before it comes together. I have found it helpful, if others are involved, to admit to to the long lag phase and in this case, my ineptitude with numbers. (They dance!)