TABULA RASA

The concept tabula rasa can be traced back to the writings of Aristotle.

John Locke championed the concept  in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding in 1690.

In Locke's philosophy, tabula rasa was the theory that at birth the human mind is a 'blank slate' without rules for processing data and that data is added and rules for processing are formed solely by one's sensory experiences.

The human mind, especially at birth is believed not to have preconceived or predetermined ideas.

The mind is in its hypothetical primary blank or empty slate before receiving outside impressions and all knowledge comes from experience or perception.

Our past experiences have a way of influencing our current decision. We tend to judge our present task based on our previous experiences.

Experiences are written on the clean slate, that is, tabula rasa.

One of the reasons we have different perspectives on a subject matter is perhaps due to our experiences.

For instance, you don't expect two persons who grew up in different environments and experienced different culture to approach life the same way because of their experiences.

As we all know that experience is best teacher. Albert Einstein said that: "The only source of knowledge is experience."

Some people have been through a lot in life, as in life has not proven to be fair, it seems to get more tough by the day. These experiences have make them to write negativity on the blank slate.

They tend to see or view life from victim perspectives and they go through life settling for less because of their bad experiences.

We can't continue to be approaching life  with our bad experiences. Take your tabula rasa and erase every thing that bad experiences have written. Start approaching life from new perspective!