Learning is a lifetime exercise - just like breathing!!!

Being curious about absolutely everything?prepares the brain for learning.

While it might be no big surprise that we're more likely to remember what we've learned when the subject matter intrigues us, it turns out that curiosity also helps us learn information we don't consider all that interesting or important. The benefits of curiosity are not limited to the intellectual? For children and adults alike, curiosity has been linked with psychological, emotional, social, and even health benefits.?

Learning?- the continuous examination of what we’ve done well and areas where we can improve - is a key element of a learning mission and a skill foundational to success. Don’t wait until you’re old to embrace it. Just as we must be continuous learners at work, we should be receptive to continuous learning throughout our lifetime.

Commit to learning one new thing every day.?Be curious. Ask questions. Challenge yourself and seek out new, or revisit old, learning opportunities.

Read. Whether it’s history, fantasy, science fiction, romance, poetry, or technology; reading will make you a smarter, more empathetic, more aware human being. And if you’re not a reader, seek out other ways to learn. In today’s world, there are countless resources for creative learning and self-improvement.

Commit to a lifetime of learning and each day you will benefit, become better at your job, build a stronger rapport between you and your teammates, and help you and your teammates achieve your goals. Learning is also contagious and will encourage others to similarly focus their energy making us all better along the way.

Increases your chances for promotion. Many times, employers find your pursuit of continuing education a great reason to give you a promotion. They recognise you’ve invested time and sometimes money into improving yourself and want to reward that. Your new education also makes you more qualified for advanced work and an ideal candidate for promotions.

Employers also sometimes have positions within a company that have an advanced degree as a basic requirement. Getting that advanced degree could be the factor in being picked for promotion.

Similarly, when placed side-by-side with another candidate for a promotion, you will stand out to and impress a hiring manager if you have more education. Education qualifies you to handle more tasks and responsibilities and may have even given you specific knowledge in how to do a job better.

If you’re ready to move into a new career field, often the first step will be gaining an education that qualifies you for that new path.

From nurses to teachers to accountants, many professions have strict requirements for licensure or?degrees in order to qualify. Obtaining this education will make you prepared to move into a new career.

Many professions require continuing education because they have specific training that is crucial to your success. Without this education, there’s no way for you to qualify for or succeed in a position.

Learning new skills through continuing education is key to being prepared for a career transition.

?Improves your lifestyle. If you’re not satisfied with your current lifestyle, continuing education could be the answer to your problems.

Want to make more money? Want to switch your job? Want to feel more fulfilled? Need new skills? Continuing education can help you accomplish all these goals.

As you spend time devoted to learning, the outcomes are positive for your career and your overall lifestyle. Improving your career often trickles down to the rest of your life because you’re more satisfied with your job, make more money, etc.

Don’t wait to change your life, start your continuing education path now and get ready for the lifestyle you have wanted.

Increases personal development. Even if you’re completely satisfied with your job and lifestyle, that doesn’t mean continuing education isn’t for you. Experts agree that learning should be a lifelong process, and devoting time to continuing education can be a journey of personal development. Whether you want to learn more about a subject that you find interesting or want some additional skills to take to your work, there are ways you can use continuing education to your advantage. Even if your pursuit of education is purely for personal reasons, you can truly take advantage of advanced learning on your path to become a better person.

What does it mean to be teachable? If you are a teachable person, you strive to grow, you ask for feedback, and you respond well to it. You are constantly absorbing new information, asking for help, and looking for ways to improve. Someone who is teachable looks at others’ opinions as valuable learning tools, not a looming possibility of being wrong. They take action and make changes where needed. When you are teachable, you listen to the input from others around you and continually use it to improve yourself.

?If there is any quality that helps in every area of life, it is being teachable. Teachable people don’t have to be the smartest to succeed—they seek to learn and grow in any and every situation. Being teachable is a foundational quality for everybody: workers, students, husbands, wives, and especially those in leadership roles.

The truth is, to be a successful leader you must be teachable. If you are not teachable, you will not learn and therefore you will not grow and become a more effective leader. On the surface, it is that simple. However, this is actually more challenging than it may appear, because often those who are not teachable do not recognise it, and even more often, our own pride, competitiveness, defensiveness, or self-centeredness leads us to resist acknowledging our need to learn. Therefore, becoming teachable requires a conscious and intentional effort, learning to exhibit specific attributes and incorporate specific behaviours that help us to learn.

At it’s core, the skill of becoming teachable can be condensed to a few?necessary attributes and action steps, and these can be even more simplified to reflect the two more basic skills of looking and listening. Looking involves what you choose to see, listening involves what you choose to hear, and both are directly impacted by how you choose to interpret what you see and hear. – you need to stop, look, and listen!

First, stop and look, and there are two things that help you be more teachable by looking: Study and Humility. We study by reading, watching, asking questions, and learning from the wisdom and experience of others. It requires intentional study of the what’s, why’s, and how’s of life and the world around us. In doing so, we add to our base of knowledge, and gain a greater understanding of the practical application and use of that knowledge. Humility is our attitude, one that makes us willing to accept our own inadequacies, deficiencies, ignorance, and failures, so that we are then also willing to learn from those mistakes and willing to learn from others.

Enjoy your journey of curious lifetime learning and the wonderful world it reveals..