Category Archives: Lifelong Learning
Expanding Your Education
Too often, we associate getting an education with attending a formal school or academy. While many great educational experiences occur in places like this, they are hardly exclusive domain. Well-educated individuals know that there are always daily opportunities to learn. Unlike a rigid classroom experience, where assignments are mandated, these real world lessons are left [...]
Help Your Brain to Grow
Finally – having a big head is no longer a bad thing. Researchers have found that staying intellectually stimulated literally helps your brain to grow. More specifically, your dendrites – the communication specialists of the nervous system – get bigger when you are constantly learning. And when they grow, brain functions improve. There’s no doubt [...]
Do What You Are Afraid to Do
“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”” Ralph Waldo Emerson It is usually the things we want most that scare us most. It is also usually the difficult things that are most worth doing. If you can teach yourself to [...]
How Reading Biographies of Successful People Can Help You Learn
There are plenty of outlets for learning, but there are few as effective as reading a biography or autobiography. Whether someone from the past or the present, whether dead or alive, whether hero or villain, reading about people can be a fantastic resource in your own life. Here’s why: You Can Learn From History As [...]
Different Learning Styles – Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic
Depending on who you ask, there are three, four, five, or seven different learning styles. And while you can expand the different ways of learning into countless applications and permutations, the three main types of sensory learning are visual, auditory, and kinesthetic – or sight, sound, and touch. This distinction of “sensory” simply means how [...]