You don’t stop learning when you grow old; you grow old when you stop learning. It’s been said that life is about living. In addition, life is about learning, life is about happiness and life is about love. Despite these seemingly different opinions, the basic premise is the same. Life is about continuing on in all aspects of our lives. This includes education. It is about utilizing all of the ‘things’ you’ve learned to date; however, unless you continue to learn and increase your knowledge, the ‘things’ become stagnant.
The author of Dare to Change Your Job and Your Life, Carol Kanchier says there are two broad types of people: those who embrace and seek change and those who resist at all costs. She calls the former ‘questers’ and the latter ‘traditionalists.’ After interviewing hundreds of employees while studying these two groups, she's noticed some fundamental characteristics about both.
"The need to grow and the desire to have challenges is greater in ‘questers’ than the desire to have security and a high income," Kanchier says. "People that are traditionalists have those qualities, too, but it's a matter of priorities. Traditionalists are more interested in prestige," she says.
Questers also generally anticipate and embrace change in preparation for the next leap, while traditionalists need to push themselves out of that comfort zone to explore what would make them happier.
We are all born with a thriving curiosity but the older we become the more fearful we are of learning. Embrace the challenge of learning new things - by adopting an open minded outlook you actually open yourself to learning and improve the odds of your success. As Eugene S. Wilson said, ‘only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.’ Curiosity is the mother of knowledge and our quest for it is a life long journey, so don’t stop learning.
The author of Dare to Change Your Job and Your Life, Carol Kanchier says there are two broad types of people: those who embrace and seek change and those who resist at all costs. She calls the former ‘questers’ and the latter ‘traditionalists.’ After interviewing hundreds of employees while studying these two groups, she's noticed some fundamental characteristics about both.
"The need to grow and the desire to have challenges is greater in ‘questers’ than the desire to have security and a high income," Kanchier says. "People that are traditionalists have those qualities, too, but it's a matter of priorities. Traditionalists are more interested in prestige," she says.
Questers also generally anticipate and embrace change in preparation for the next leap, while traditionalists need to push themselves out of that comfort zone to explore what would make them happier.
We are all born with a thriving curiosity but the older we become the more fearful we are of learning. Embrace the challenge of learning new things - by adopting an open minded outlook you actually open yourself to learning and improve the odds of your success. As Eugene S. Wilson said, ‘only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.’ Curiosity is the mother of knowledge and our quest for it is a life long journey, so don’t stop learning.
‘I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma,’ Eartha Kitt Life.
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