LEARNING FOR LIFE: Feeding Personal, Professional, Emotional and Spiritual Growth

If we are serious about our own personal, professional, emotional and spiritual growth, we should also be serious about the concept of learning for life. We should never stop our insatiable thirst for learning new things and encountering different perspectives. If we were to cease doing that, our development as a complete person would also cease.

As children it would be unusual to think that we could endure if there were not people to teach us things. From the moment we are born, we are taught lessons by our parents, family members, relatives and close friends. These lessons continue through childhood with our parents and teachers all providing us with learning opportunities.

As adults, it is considered quite acceptable to learn new job skills and obtain qualifications to further our professional careers. The distinction of a college degree and a post graduate certification reminds others that we have learned more, we know more and we can do more.

But as adults, when it comes to benefiting from experiences of other adults to get even better, [outside of purely academic settings] society tends to have implanted within us a belief that we should not openly acknowledge the need or take the need seriously. We should simply work things out for ourselves, accept life’s negative outcomes as our destiny and to do this in a quiet and private way.

However, such an approach to life-long learning results in never having the chance to make any important changes in our adult perspectives, our current careers or our present lives. Life is all about evolving through learning from others and making the changes needed to become an even better person, an even better professional and more of an asset to all of those we touch…and those who touch us.

Learning from others also helps us grow emotionally and spiritually. It keeps us from making the same mistakes as others. The splendor of wanting to learn from others is that we remain open and willing to listen. This, in return, draws others towards us and opens many new doors and experiences.

It should, therefore, not be perceived as any sign of weakness if, as an adult, we openly express our desire to learn how to improve and develop ourselves as human beings more fully by seeking the advice and insights of other more learned people.

 It is what nourishes and sustains our own personal, professional, emotional and spiritual growth. 

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