On re-learning things

Due to unique life circumstances, I've had the opportunity to engage in a lot of "re-learning". Sometimes, knowledge gets thrusted upon in a pressure-filled environment that the learning actually happens very incompletely. In such a setting, the chance to "see the forest for the trees" becomes minimal.

For example, when you have to learn the JavaScript programming language at work, you kind of just learn the parts that matter to your task-at-hand. You can't read the entire JavaScript textbook from cover-to-cover and remember everything about every built-in JavaScript function (let alone memorize each parameter and its role in the function). It feels like working with red and blue, claiming to "know colour", but rarely ever seeing yellow and green.

When downtime happens, however, that becomes the opportunity to re-learn (or maybe actually learn for the first time) the "missing parts" or "gaps" in the knowledge of something.

This goes for anything and not just work-related things. Let's use an example with the English language. Even now, I continue to learn interesting things about the most basic English words, e.g. their origins, their alternate meanings, their uses in slang, etc.

So, re-learning does not have to mean "doing something again" but it could mean "doing something better" or "improving upon something that already exists".