The Power of Lifelong Learning
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Learning Empowers, Leads, Fulfills
Lifelong learning is the concept of pursuing skill and knowledge over the course of one’s lifetime, regardless of age or formal education.
An open, curious mind is essential aspect to personal and professional development. Ongoing learning helps people expand, enhance creativity, broaden their perspective, and gain deeper understanding of issues and the world around them. Lifelong learning is a critical component of a youthful, buoyant life of purpose, empathy, and fulfillment.
The bottom line? Learning empowers us if we empower it.
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Ten methods for pursing Lifelong Learning:
Read! The cognitive health benefits readers enjoy are documented and numerous.
Be confident in your potential to progress and grow.
Realize that chronological age is an immaterial detail.
Be broadly curious. Take interest in life, in the world, and in others.
Care about what is, and what could be.
Delight in what you don’t know. There’s so much to discover, whatever your age or circumstance.
Organize and track progress. Progress is the most motivating of all things.
Schedule, protect, and prioritize time to pursue challenges, growth, and goals.
Find a way to go ahead. Don’t allow work, naysayers, or circumstances to deter you from developing interests, mind, spirit, and engagement with life.
Be open-minded about change, differences, new ways of doing, and leaving your comfort zone. Everyone can broaden our knowledge and understanding.
Learning enhances engagement with life, self, and others, as it improves employment prospects, personal growth, and self-actualization. When we position ourselves as life-long learners, we become comfortable with doing new things and being beginners.
Embrace growth, change, youth, and exuberance by positioning yourself as a life-long learner. Become an engaged, grateful, curious, continuous learner and watch the benefits flow.