Why We Should Never Stop Learning

The story goes that Marcus Aurelius’ hired an assistant to follow him as he walked through the roman town square. The assistant’s only role was to, whenever Marcus Aurelius received a compliment, the servant had to whisper in his ear, "You’re just a man…you are just a man” to keep him humble... They say two things define us our patience when we have nothing and our humility when we have everything.

You know the greatest thinkers on the planet believed that they're perpetual learners, perpetual students of reality and of life. And it was actually Maya Angelou who said that “actually I've learnt that I still have a lot to learn”.

 

The person that we will become in five years is defined by the people that we spend time with today and the books that we read today. That’s why, who we associate with, who we spend time with, who we absorb our energy with, what we really define and what's on our minds. And often what limits our learning is that we believe we already know, we believe that we already have the knowledge, and we already believe that we have the answer. But actually opening up ourselves to learn from the people around us selectively, choosing people who can be guides and wise advisors. We often find that this feeling of knowing makes us actually judge others and criticize others. And that's why we see that judging is critical but observing can be educational.

And therefore we should be so focused on improving ourselves that we don't have any energy to criticize anyone else. And then we're focusing on improving ourselves. We surround ourselves were people who challenge the way we think, who question the way we behave. And that's why if you're looking around and you find yourself being the smartest person in the room, change rooms you're in the wrong one. You want to be around people who lift up the way you think, you lift up your mindset, who really take you to new dimensions and horizons that you can never ever imagine yourself.

I believe that we should never let compliments get to our heads and never let criticism get to our hearts because when we do that, we can start to build with genuineness and authenticity. When we're humble can actually grow and rise up and always feel that we're learning, always feel that we're developing, and always feel that someone can share insight at any moment that can change our lives.

Have you ever found that similar situations keep coming into your life and actually nothing ever goes away until it teaches you, what you needed to learn? So when we don't extrapolate lessons from situations. We have to take that test again, we almost have to learn that lesson again and therefore simultaneous or repetitive situations keep approaching us in our lives.

When we realize that we're students for life instead of making people see how powerful we are, we want people to understand how powerful they are, and we'll learn how to empower others. We actually attract people to work with us to achieve our goals, they say it's better to know how to learn than to know. Because when we know how to learn it, becomes a habit, it becomes part of our mindset, and it becomes a part of the way that we daily navigate life. We’re trying to draw lessons from every person, every situation, every interaction, every moment that will actually teach us something about ourselves, teach us something about society, teach us something about the world, teach us something about how we can interact with that space. And that's why Brian Herbert said “The capacity to learn is a gift, the ability could learn is a skill but the willingness to learn is a choice”.

 

 

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