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Hi Jeff,
I love learning. Books are my best friend, always available when I need them, bringing me comfort and knowledge. I always have atleast one with me every where I go. This has been going on for over 12 years. I love bookstores, free book bins and old-school printing. Although I know it is important for me isten to my gut and have faith, it is in my design to search. I love it and love that I learned of LLL. I have so much to do and learn, especially since I get ahead of myself apt of times, as with my new website I need to learn about which direction to go. Perhaps I took the wrong course, but it did lead me here, so that’s a happy positive. Certain ones/areas aren’t educated in the importance of education. I do believe we are all different and some of us are made to be brave. But we all have progressions in our lives. For example, I used to very outgoing and easily adapted to changes. Now I’m more fixed. My dad is an avid reader and very smart, he is always teaching me the proper way and to read the fine print. Thank you so much for your newsletter.
Your post outlines some important benefits of becoming a lifelong learner. As a lifelong learner myself, I’ve built an app that helps you remember more of the things you learn. It’s called Lernabit, and all you have to do is use Lernabit to write down the things you learn. Then Lernabit will let you know when it is time to review them so you never forget what you learned. Try it out at https://lernabit.com
ReplyI believe all of US learn daily consciously or unconsciously. But I agree with the blogger that, we need to be aware of this and make conscious efforts to devote time and resources to it. On the job, in our marriages/relationships, in everything. Work is better enjoyed when you learn (Dayforce) and adapt. Marriages become better because you know better how to handle situations. Plato once said, “An unexamined life is not worth living”. We need self reflection from time to time and learn new ways to do things better. Thanks for reminding us all of the need for LLL.
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ReplyJeff, I’m with you on this. It’s hard to believe that, being so obvious, we have to try to convince others about the benefits of LLL. It really is a matter of survival for mankind. Just Delors 3rd pillar by itself, Learning to Leave Together should be considered axiomatic without further explanation.
Good work! I think I’ll try something like this on my blog.
Best regards
Oscar
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ReplyI think that if you stop learning you stop living, so I will learn languages till the day I die.
ReplyHey Jeff,
I think that for most people the true value of life long learning can not be fully appreciated until they have a ‘a few’ years of life experience behind them so to speak. For most young people the idea of ‘learning’ something brings back memories of a classroom environment where let’s face it, we all did most of our learning in the earlier part of our lives.
The fact that our memories of our school going days are not always that great can create a barrier of sorts to the idea of learning something new. In the classroom we often had to learn subjects that we were not particularly interested in just to get points or grades and often were forced to learn by methods that might not have been the best fit for the type of learner that we were. In short, for many, the idea of learning can be equated to an unpleasant experience.
It will often be the case that it is only when we have put a few years between ourselves and our school going days that the fact that we can learn new things because we ‘want to’ and not because we ‘have to’ becomes clear to us. This I think, is when our journey of life long learning truly begins!
Joe.
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