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One of my favourite scenes from the Star Wars movies is when the young Luke Skywalker is training with Yoda -the legendary Jedi Master- in Episode V, The Empire Strikes Back. In that episode Luke was training in the Force, and he was struggling, finding it very difficult to do his tasks. At one point, he fails to move his ship with the Force, and says it is impossible because it is too heavy. Then, After Yoda moves the ship easily, Yoda turns to Luke and says a line that will be the key in Luke’s training: Luke if you are going to succeed: “You must unlearn what you have learned.”
Not long after gaining my PhD in Economics and starting my full time job as a Senior Lecturer in Economics in the 1980s, I, too, had a ‘Luke Moment’: I must unlearn what I had learned! More on this later.
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