Lifelong Learning & Me

Listening to the presentation on lifelong learning after what seems like a lifetime worth of learning already behind me was a pretty cool experience. Each of these habits are intuitive and subtle but each plays an instrumental part in allowing those who are passionate about expanding their minds and and abilities to as close to their fullest potential as possible.

I'd have to say the one that I find most difficult to practice successfully is to "accept resposiblility for your own learning". Though it may seem a simple thing, it is all too often in the workplace that we get stuck telling ourselves that we know everything we need to in order to do our job successfully. And no matter how true that may be, though it is sometimes hard, we must realize that there are many things that if we made the effort to learn, would take our successful work skills and carry them infinitely on toward perfection. And it is this perfection, that we must make a conscious decision to strive for. That is the essence, I believe, of lifelong learning and the reason I believe it is one of the hardest habits to master.