Learning Continually

Big-Pictured Thinkers learn continually. They understand that there are always new ways of doing things better, that there can be other areas of knowledge hich they have yet to learn.

Some useful benefits from continual learning include; ever expanding your map of the world, a new subject or area of knowledge will bring about new perspectives, and most importantly to me is that continual learning is fuel for ideas generation.

If we do not learn continually from things, people, books, movies, art, music, then where do we get new ideas?

What works for me is this:
Every week during your weekly review, identify the key opportunities for new learning.

This can be very exciting because let's say in your upcoming week's agenda you find that you have a meeting with an old friend, decide that you will learn something from him/her. It can be his/her pespective of work, life, certain aspects of government policies, etc.

Or let's say you are going to the movies this week with your spouse, decide to find a key learning point from the movie.

Interesting things happen when you made that decision. First, you've programmed your subconscious mind to seek out that learning opportunity that you might otherwise elude you. Second, you approach the event with humilty (to learn) instead of arrogance (of what new thing can this event or person teach me).

So can I challenge you to look at your upcoming week schedule and identify an event where you seek to learn something from it.

As we hope to engage our friends here so please share with us your experiences after you have done the action exercise.

Your friend,
Melvyn
(Posted from my iPhone)