Never Stop Learning

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It is often said that two things define us all;

Our patience when we have nothing and our humility when we have everything

The greatest thinkers on the planet believe that they are perpetual learners, perpetual students of reality and of life. It was actually Maya Angelou who said;

I have learned that I still have a lot to learn

The person that we will become in 5 years is defined by the people 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 will really define what's on our mind.

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Often what limits our learning is that we believe we already know, we believe that we have knowledge, we believe we already have the answers, 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 judging is critical but observing can be educational and therefore we should be so focused on improving ourselves that we don't have energy to criticize anyone else.

When we are focusing on improving ourselves we should surround ourselves with people who challenge the way we think and question the way we behave, and that's why if you are 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, who lift up your mindset, who really takes you to new dimensions and horizons that you could never ever imagine yourself.

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We should never let compliments get to our head and never let criticism get to our heart because when we do, we can start to build with genuineness and authenticity, when we are humble we can actually grow and rise up and always feel that we are learning, always feel that we are developing, always feel that someone can share insight at any moment that can change our lives.

Have you ever found it that similar situations keep coming into your life and actually nothing ever goes away until it teaches you what it 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 are students for life, instead of making people see how powerful we are, we want people to understand how powerful they are and we learn how to empower others, we will actually attract people to work with us to achieve our goals.

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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 a part of our mindset, it becomes a part of the way that we daily navigate life. We are trying to draw lessons from every person, every situation, every interaction, every moment that can actually teach us something about ourselves, teach us something about our world, teach us something about how we can interact with that space.

Brian Herbert said;

The capacity to learn is a gift, the ability to learn is a skill, but the willingness to learn is a choice.