Are you a lifelong learner?

20+ tips to be a student of life.

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What is lifelong learning?

“Ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons.”

“Learning can be seen as something that takes place on an ongoing basis from our daily interactions with others and with the world around us.”

What is autodidacticism?

“Self-education (also self-learning) is education without the guidance of teachers/professors or institutions/schools.

An autodidact is an individual who chooses the subject they will study, their studying material, and the studying rhythm and time.”

It's up to you:

“The truth is that the only education is self-education. Teachers can impart information and make suggestions, but they are like sign-posts...

A sign-post is of no earthly use unless the person who consults it wants to go somewhere.” — Robert Shafer

It all starts with wonder:

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” — Socrates

Follow your curiosity:

“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” — William Arthur Ward

The world is your teacher:

“The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning, you go to school.” — T. D. Jakes

Stay open:

“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.” — Vernon Howard

Be a sponge:

“I am quite correctly described as ‘more of a sponge than an inventor…'” — Thomas Edison

Read:

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” — Fran Lebowitz

Read often:

“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time – none, zero.” — Charlie Munger

Read widely:

“A multidisciplinary attitude is required ... You have to learn many things in such a way that they’re in a mental latticework in your head.” — Charlie Munger

Embody books:

“Don’t just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind.” — Epictetus

Keep building:

“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.” — Peter Drucker

Learn how to learn:

“The most important thing you learn in school is how to learn.” — Derrick Fung

Learn how to think:

“Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.” David Foster Wallace

Learn how to live:

“A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously.” — Nathaniel Branden

Let death be your diploma:

“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” — Eartha Kitt

Learn forever:

“Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching.” — Unknown

Inherit the future:

“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” — Eric Hoffer

Gather wisdom:

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” — Isaac Asimov

Help others learn:

“The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.” — Charlie Munger

Become wise:

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” — Albert Einstein

The ultimate aha moment:

“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.” — Albert Einstein

“I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” — Socrates

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