Why You Should Be A Lifelong Student

Learning is key

One of the biggest common mistakes people make when they get out of their “scholar” years is to stop learning. For years, they’ve learned through books, reading, lessons, professors, and courses, and now they’re just tired of it, so they stop. They’re finally free from being forced to learn, so they stop and go and live their life, letting everything at the hands of fate, or at the hands of “experience”.

However, learning constantly is very important. It’s important for your growth as well as for others that you learn constantly. Let’s say for example you become a boss. Constantly learning about human relationships, strategies to help your team, productivity techniques, improving one’s diet for productivity, time management, and more, could help you boost the efficiency of your team in the long term, and could therefore affect your quality of life, the company’s salary, and your team productivity and happiness.

Being a lifelong student means always learning. You can also be a master from time to time, giving lessons and helping people, but you also need to realize that you don’t know everything, and that, in fact, you will never know everything. Some people pass their whole lives without even reconsidering their childhood conditioning for example.

So, for our growth and our impact on the world, we need to be constantly learning, always improving, and constantly evolving. The benefit too of being a lifelong student is that your growth is exponential. The more you learn, the more you become better, the more you learn, etc etc.

You end up growing super fast in the world. In one year, you make as much mental and sometimes even physical progress as the average man or woman does in 3 years. You grow at a very fast rate.

And, as your wisdom expands, you can help more people and you can become a better parent, lover, friend, boss, employee, etc. You can impact the lives of people in a much more significant way. Your culture expands and you can speak about interesting topics with other people, make new friends, have new conversations, and build more intellect in your daily life. This can help you boost your social status too.

And, always learning enables you to constantly improve, which means that you will discover new ways of life or new philosophies too. In other words, always learning could lead to microscopic changes (I learned that France was liberated in 1944 during WW2) and it could also lead to macroscopic changes, on a much bigger scale (Masculine and feminine energy are actually a thing and I can see it happen in real life which changes my perception on my life, work, relationships, intimacy, and more).

Also, on a purely financial or economic scale, constantly learning and being a lifelong student can help you find new strategies to boost your business. If you’re always up to date, you can always beat your competition. The same goes for a lot of different areas of your life.

If you’re a bodybuilder and you haven’t updated your “brain data” on the best leg exercise for the past 40 years, you might not make as much progress as you could or learn some tricks that could help you get closer to your goal or faster toward it.

The more you learn, the more your wisdom expands, and the more you get better at whatever you learned in the first place. And in this way, you can really “level up” your general culture, your athleticism, your productivity, your work quality, your business, your influence on the world, your social relationships, and on and on.

This is why reading every day is so useful: it enables you to accumulate new knowledge to re-use, even if it’s microscopic knowledge (unimportant, non-urgent knowledge) or macroscopic knowledge (important, non-urgent, or urgent knowledge).

Supports to learn

Now, you might be wondering: how can I learn daily? Well, there are many platforms, or supports to learn new knowledge daily or every week.

The first one, and the most common one and the one I recommend by far is reading books. Reading books is great, especially when you have the book with you, physically, as it enables you to disconnect from screens for a while.

Reading books enables you to read condensed information from, for some authors, 15+ years of hard work. Some authors literally put 10 years, 20 years, and even sometimes 50 years of life observation and experiences on a particular subject or on broader subjects such as relationships (Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends And Influence People for example), and these same authors put all the knowledge and wisdom they learned about a subject in a single book. In a few hundred pages, you can get 10 years of information on a certain subject, or even more.

Books are also super useful because they make your creative mind work. If there are some tangible examples of social interactions for example in a social relationship-based book, you can truly imagine how the techniques you read or the mindset changes could impact, affect, and happen with the people in your life and visualize how these social interactions would go if you used the techniques or wisdom the author gives.

Reading can increase knowledge, and empathy, improve memory, reduce stress, improve vocabulary, and strengthen your brain, as well as improve focus and concentration.

The second one is by far podcasts. Podcasts are episodes that often are around 1-2 hours long, where two people speak about various subjects. Let’s say you want to work in the aeronautic field, you can watch podcasts about aeronautics. Let’s say you want to improve your life more broadly, you can watch podcasts about self-development.

I particularly recommend the podcast of Chris Williamson (The Modern Wisdom Podcast). Modern Wisdom is a great podcast with hundreds of episodes on health, self-improvement, history, the future of humanity, sports, business, life lessons, wisdom, religion, etc.

I also recommend the Huberman Lab, which is a podcast hosted by neuroscientist and Ph.D Andrew Huberman from the University of Stanford. The Diary Of A CEO is also a great podcast to take a look at. Mike Thurston’s podcasts can also be of help, even tho the guests are not always great. The same goes for Joe Rogan.

The third way to learn that I recommend is online courses. There are THOUSANDS of online courses on the internet for whatever subject necessary, be it how to become an engineer to how to start coding to how to gain muscle, and also on how to cook. Really, thousands of courses on thousands of different subjects are made by thousands of different content creators.

The fourth way to learn is simply to follow an educational program, such as universities for example. This is the best way to learn if you want a specific job and you need a degree, but for life-long learning, it’s not that great as most people end university in their early adulthood. And, the classes and subjects learned are limited: if you want to learn about self-development at a university, a video from Hamza Ahmed would do much better.

The fifth way to learn, like I just said, is through educational videos. I suggest podcasts of course and also videos from Hamza Ahmed, Alex Hormozi, or even Iman Gadzhi. What I’m trying to convey here is that these people have lessons to offer, even tho some search more for clickbait and views than others. Always look with a critical eye at these videos too.

So, with all these ways of learning, most of them being accessible simply from your phone or computer, you have no excuses to not become a lifelong student. Also, I didn’t mention it before, but if you don’t learn, you will probably not question your childhood conditioning, your simple social conditioning, the way you act in specific situations, or the way you speak in certain situations.

You will and might discover that some actions you do in your life or some reactions to problems stem from your conditioning and that, in fact, you can change them. You might discover by learning constantly a ton of things about yourself and your life and life in a broader sense, what you want to do with your life, what is life all about, who is god, etc.

Also, constantly learning can help you increase your “market value” in both your dating life and your employability. In your dating life, always learning makes you wiser, and it expands your knowledge. You might become more attractive, speak more eloquently, exercise more or have a better physique, be more present, be more spiritually connected to your soul, etc.

In your employability, you might become a more valuable employee, who’s constantly learning about how to better his job, and who therefore is more productive and produces better quality work than the other employees. You might simply become better at your job and beat your competition in the process.

In conclusion, lifelong learning and being a lifelong student is necessary if you want to become your best self. So, why not start now? You’ve got no excuses now.

Conclusion

I hope this article was of help to you. Thank you for reading and I’ll see you next time.

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