This month I want to highlight an article, The Maxim For Every Successful Person; ‘Always Stay A Student’, by Ryan Holiday. The article discusses the importance of staying a learner, even as your mastery reaches new heights. The Mongols demonstrated constant learning in their quest for world domination, and the lessons they applied are just as present in our much different world today. By staying a learner, you avoid stagnation, and remain open to new data, new experiences, and new ideas. Constant learning is difficult, it means we are never satisfied with our current knowledge. However, constant learning is key to our personal and professional success, as it helps us adapt and grow in our ever-changing environment. 

https://medium.com/the-mission/the-maxim-for-every-successful-person-always-stay-a-student-546d3ed8a940

“Genghis Khan was not born a genius. Instead, as one biographer put it, his was ‘a persistent cycle of pragmatic learning, experimental adaptation, and constant revision driven by his uniquely disciplined and focused will.’ He was the greatest conqueror the world ever knew because he was more open to learning than any other conqueror has ever been…The physicist John Wheeler, the physicist who helped develop the hydrogen bomb, once observed that ‘As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.‘ In other words, each victory and advancement that made Khan smarter also bumped him against new situations he’d never encountered before. It takes a special kind of humility to grasp that you know less, even as you know and grasp more and more.”