What’s the difference between a young adult and a seasoned senior besides age? Their wisdom and experience. These are two things you can’t think up and have. You have to live, experiment, and learn throughout your whole life in order to reach new levels of knowledge and expertise. The best time to start learning useful new things is yesterday. The second best time is today.
This post is part of a 14 part series on How to Be a Better Person. I’ve also super-duper fancied this group of posts up into an Amazon Kindle book. Check it out: Forget Perfect, Just Be Better: 101 Simple Ways to Grow in Relationships, at Work, in Life, and Through God.
1) What’s a Library?
I can’t figure out why people aren’t as excited about learning new things as me. I like to believe they’re excited, but maybe not with the way things are taught now-a-days. Or is it that we’re just moving so fast we don’t think we have time to learn something new? Maybe it’s the lack of a personal “educational fund” to buy books, training, or tickets to seminars? Or maybe it’s a lack of awareness of all the awesome stuff that’s out there?
Let’s face it. If you’re not motivated and looking for a new skill to learn and build, you’ll never lift a finger in that direction. It boils down to motivation. If we’re not excited about overcoming hurdles in our way, then why would we even bother learning how to do it? Sure, deep down we all know that there’s more to be had, but what’s wrong with what we have right now? Nothing. Nothing at all. Except everything. Everything you’re missing.
Just Be Better: Go to your local library’s website. Pick a random book. Check it out. Read for at least fifteen minutes. Or better yet, most libraries now have audiobooks available for free. You can be ‘reading’ while you drive to work, exercise, or mow the lawn. There’s no reason you shouldn’t be learning something. I learned a ton from almost 100 audiobooks in 2011. All free, thanks to my local library.
The growth is there for the taking. Be the reason.