Lifelong Learning

• 00:04 The next sphere is learning.
• 00:05 Learning is so essential, I believe,
• 00:08 if you want to live a truly fulfilled life, a life with purpose.
• 00:12 There's nothing sadder than someone who gave up on learning and
• 00:16 is just going through the motions in life.
• 00:18 So start off with your philosophy.
• 00:21 People who have a fixed mindset say, well,
• 00:24 you're limited by your IQ, your position in life, your education.
• 00:29 Did you go to a prestigious school, high school, prep school, college?
• 00:33 If not, that's kind of it.
• 00:34 That's one view.
• 00:36 The open mindset, the one I prefer and I endorse is the sense that
• 00:42 human beings have an unlimited capacity to learn for their entire life.
• 00:48 Learning can take place in formal, schools, colleges, universities,
• 00:53 but they can also take place informally.
• 00:56 Things like this online learning and books and podcasts and walks through nature.
• 01:02 So you gotta figure out what your philosophy is when it
• 01:06 comes to life long learning.
• 01:08 Next, you have to figure out your particular vision of yourself.
• 01:12 Are you a lifelong learner?
• 01:14 Do you view yourself as someone who's constantly learning?
• 01:18 Do you feel like you have grown as a person from where you were ten years ago,
• 01:23 five years ago, a year ago, even two weeks ago?
• 01:27 Are you continuing to learn?
• 01:29 You may have dropped out of school in the third grade, but
• 01:33 you're continuing to learn.
• 01:35 You may have graduated from Harvard Law School or
• 01:39 medical school, but never cracked a book since then and
• 01:43 you're coasting on what you learned a long time ago.
• 01:47 So this can go both ways, regardless of your formal education instruction.
• 01:53 So that's what you gotta figure out is exactly what is your vision for yourself.
• 02:00 Next, you gotta figure out what are your long-term goals?
• 02:02 It may be to learn a foreign language.
• 02:07 It may be to master a whole subject so that you can make an online course on it.
• 02:12 But you gotta figure out what your long term online and
• 02:18 offline learning goals are.
• 02:20 Next, you gotta figure out what your short-term goals
• 02:24 are when it comes to learning.
• 02:26 What is it you want to learn right away?
• 02:29 I always have short-term goals of what I'm
• 02:32 learning because I'm always making a new online course, so
• 02:35 I'm trying to learn as much as possible for that particular subject.
• 02:39 That means reading short eBooks, long paper books on the subject.
• 02:45 What are your short-term goals that you want to learn?
• 02:48 It might be learning a language that you just need to know because you're going on
• 02:53 a vacation one time in a country that speaks that language.
• 02:56 So you need to have short-term goals.
• 02:59 The next element you've gotta figure out what are your core
• 03:04 daily habits that are going to support your lifelong learning?
• 03:10 These are crucial.
• 03:12 For me, it's things like I read an eBook every single day,
• 03:17 I also listen to an audio book every single day.
• 03:21 I also read all or part of a paper book every single day and
• 03:27 I watch a how to instructional video every single day.
• 03:33 So those are core things that I do every single day to help be learned.
• 03:40 Next, you gotta think about what are the non-core things you do to learn?
• 03:46 To constantly get your mind stimulated?
• 03:49 For me, it's doing things like going to museums.
• 03:52 I don't go to a museum every day, but every time I travel, which, in the past,
• 03:57 has been very frequent, I always look for
• 03:59 the best museums in a city where I'm going.
• 04:02 I happen to live right outside New York City.
• 04:05 So quite often, when I take my family into the city,
• 04:08 we go to Metropolitan Museum of Art, Modern Museum of Art.
• 04:12 There's so many wonderful museums where I live.
• 04:14 You don't have to go to museums, that's simply one
• 04:20 non-core habit I have that supports my lifelong learning goals.
• 04:26 The final element, tiny micro habits,
• 04:30 tiny things you do 10, 20 seconds or less on a daily basis.
• 04:35 For me, I learn one new word a day.
• 04:38 It's not that I want to dazzle you with a larger vocabulary.
• 04:42 But it sends a signal to my brain, hey, brain, you're still learning,
• 04:45 you're still learning new concepts.
• 04:47 I just pull up an app, read the word, the definition, typically ten seconds or less.
• 04:54 That is my micro habit to support this particular series of goals.
• 05:00 What are yours?
• 05:01 Use the checklist below, fill it out.

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