Publish at May 28 2026 Updated May 28 2026
Learning is made up of three dimensions: the cognitive, the socio-affective and the conative. But who really knows what the conative is? Spinoza reminds us of the power of conatus, the ability to set oneself in motion, to persist in effort, to maintain an orientation over time.
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