"Intellectual growth should commence
at birth and cease only at death."
— Albert
Einstein: Genius; recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
“Every now and then I like to pick up a copy
of Time magazine and read every article from
beginning to end, not just the articles that interest
me most,” says Gates. “That way you can be certain
to
learn something you didn’t know previously.”
Learning is an essential ingredient of any successful
business.
As soon as you close your mind to the
possibility of another reality, you are closing yourself
off to other greater
opportunities that lie waiting for you.
“In this business, by the
time you realize you’re in trouble,
it’s too late to save yourself,” says Gates.
“Unless you’re
running scared all the time,
you’re gone.” In order for Microsoft to have
maintained its competitive edge for the
past
three decades, it was crucial for Gates and all
his employers to engage in a process of continual
learning.
For Gates, “‘I don’t know’ had become ‘I don’t
know yet.’”
The ability to be open to change and
to continue
to try and improve oneself and one’s business is
crucial to success, according to Gates. “People
always fear change,” he says. “People feared
electricity when it was invented…there will
always be
ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear.”
If you ignore your surroundings
and stop asking
questions about how to improve, you will be destined
to failure. In the highly competitive world
of computer
technology, where the likes of Google and Apple are
becoming bigger threats to Microsoft, it is not
difficult
for Gates to stay on his toes.
Many outsiders attribute Gates’ success simply
to his
high level of intelligence. But for Gates, “Smart is an elusive
concept.” Instead, he attributes his success to
his desire to
never stop learning. “There’s a certain sharpness, an ability to
absorb new facts; to ask an
insightful question; to relate two
domains that may not seem connected at first.”
It is this
curiosity that Gates
tries to inspire in his workers, encouraging
them to not only find answers but to ask the right questions.
For Gates, no matter what you
spend
your time doing in life, you should never
stop asking questions; never stop learning.
Whether
you’re an entrepreneur or a doctor
or a software developer, it is only by increasing
your understanding of the
world around you that
you will be able to have a significant impact. This
is why Gates can still exclaim today, “I’m
excited
by the possibilities.”
If you never stop learning, you
will never stop seeing the possibilities.
- Evan Carmichael
"One of the things I really
believe in is
to never stop learning. Sure you may
be busy with work and life and things
(who isn’t
nowadays) but it’s really easy
to slack off and coast for a few months
or a year or more.
Some people
get a new job
and learn just enough to be able
to do that job and then coast for
years on end.
I’m
the opposite type of person and
I keep trying to learn and broaden my
horizons as much as possible even if the
learning does not directly affect my day
to day job. It helps me to keep an open
mind and think in different
directions."
- Peter Stathakos
"Sometimes people ask me how I
find time to go learn new stuff.
Here’s the answer: you make time.
Nobody
ever likes that kind of answer,
but we all know it’s the real one."
- Steve Yegge
"When you
graduate from college
(or high school, for that matter), you
have a simple choice facing you.
You can either
keep learning, or you can stop.
Speed Reading Secret
There is an almost
unbelievably easy
heuristic for knowing whether you’re
learning. It goes like this: no pain, no gain.
Learning is hard. If
it’s easy, then you’re coasting;
you’re not making yourself better at something
fundamentally new that you
couldn’t do before."
- Peter Stathakos
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