What Importance Do You Place on Learning?

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” - Henry Ford

I told my boy, “don’t be a fool like others, if there is anything that is not clear to you, don’t be too shy or scared to ask you teachers, that is what you are paying for.” While you can learn by listening, you can learn even more and better by asking. And I gave him more back-up, “if any teacher consider asking for what you don’t know to be rude, don’t hesitate to let me know.” “A man who asks is a fool for five minutes. A man who never asks is a fool for life.” - Chinese Proverb.

Learning is one of the sources of building courage and retaining your youthfulness at any stage of life; it is advisable to learn a little about a lot of things out of your area of specialization. Every creature learns differently, but one form of learning that is more effective is to get involved. According to Benjamin Franklin, he says “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” It’s not all occasion we can practically get involved in the learning process, if that is the case, don’t hesitate to ask what you don’t know, it’s a form of getting informed in the learning process.

I agreed with Robert A. Heinlein when he says “I never learned from a man who agreed with me.” Who never like to be the man everyone listen to, but if they always agreed with you all the time, you can never learn from them, they do. William Henry Gates III (Bill Gate) co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation and an American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist is worth listening to on this view. He says, “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” Amateur entrepreneur hate that, but the wise one learn from them to get better, are you one of them?