10 Hidden Benefits of Lifelong Learning

Welcome back to The Daily Mastermind. George Wright III here with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. Today, I want to talk to you about your learning, your lifelong learning, and I want to give you 10 hidden benefits of having a pattern of learning in your life and as a priority in your life. So, you know, most of you, most of us, I think I've found over time, are experts at learning. We study, we read, we listen to all types of different things, especially if you're listening to this particular podcast. And you've heard me say before, prosperity pillar number nine, which is I am committed to lifelong learning. And I really believe this is a worthy cause in your life. I believe this is something that, you know, we get out of school and we say to ourselves, gosh, I'm so tired of learning. But in order to truly grow and expand and become all that you can become, learning is going to be a key, key part of doing that. And the reason that you're learning and how you're learning and how you're applying your learning is what I want to talk to you about today. Because just learning is not the key. It's applying your knowledge. Learning is not just studying and getting your knowledge and stuff that you don't currently have. Learning is about applying what you've learned. part of that process of learning is applying the application of the content you're getting so one of the things that i really want to do is i want to talk to you about how knowledge you've heard that acronym or that that's saying knowledge is not power applied knowledge is power and gaining experience with that knowledge in my opinion takes it to a whole nother level because your learning is going to be the key in your life to helping you to grow and unleash your potential. So let me just remind you, the only way that you're going to grow and you're going to create the life that you want to live and create your ultimate destiny is to change these limiting beliefs that you have in your life. And the only way to do this is to start creating new experiences and new experiences are almost always operating outside your comfort zone. And you do this with the tools of applying new knowledge that you have and then creating experiences with that new knowledge. The reason I say is because everything outside your comfort zone that you don't know, that you haven't experienced, that you don't believe or you don't have a frame of reference for, you'll need some type of a learning process. And it might be information, it might be action, it might be whatever it is. But this is what helps you grow. This is what helps you develop because you create and grow and change your beliefs outside your comfort zone and in new experiences. So I'm not just talking about learning for education's sake here, but that's a key. So back to this idea of tying your learning to an objective in your life. And I think it's very, very important that you find passion in learning, and you do that by tying your learning process to the objectives the goals the obstacles all the kinds of things that happen in your life but really the objective of your life where you going your path When you tie your learning to that you become much more passionate about learning So start to focus your learning on areas that will help you to create your best life, like your unique talent, mastering your unique talents, or your immediate and long-term needs of your company, or even your personal life and relationships. When you do that, and you don't just dabble, but you get really specific with your intent and start creating results through your learning, your business, your personal life, your relationships, everything's going to grow and you're going to be much more intentional with your learning. Another reminder is that this idea of neuroplasticity says you can learn and develop and grow new patterns at any age. So remember that whole idea that the neurons that fire together wire together is so true. You've got to start to make learning a habit in your life with your daily rituals. For example, what I'll do in my day to gain motivation, inspiration, and education every day is podcasts, books. Maybe you've got some newsletters or RSS feeds that you're following. You know, I interview people. I learn from new sources of information. But I dedicate a specific amount of time to learning because I know that it can be used in my business and it will also motivate and inspire me. And I'll talk to you about a few of those benefits here in a minute. But do what's best for you. Everyone learns differently. So maybe it's audio. Maybe it's written word you like to read. Maybe it's whatever personalities that you're listening to resonate the most with you. Find ways to really motivate yourself by finding things that apply to you specifically. What time of day works best for you for learning? Is it the morning or is it the evening? Block out that time. And then learn in areas that you can apply right away. Because when you're learning in areas that you can use in your daily life, they become much more exciting for you. A great example of this is when I was learning everything I needed to to create a podcast. You know, I started the Daily Mastermind. I had no idea how to do a podcast, but I was learning and applying that learning. And the bottom line is that helped to create a lot of change for me personally, as well as my business. And just keep in mind, you're never too old to learn. You know, we really do get to a point sometimes where, especially if you're raising kids or you're a business owner or you're a high achiever, you have to express your knowledge all the time. And so we sort of start to think that we know it all. and some of the biggest and brightest business minds I've ever met are eager learners. They're eager to learn. They're taking notes and so this is a process of learning that I think you really need to prioritize the whole idea of learning but to help you do that I thought I'd take another angle here for just a couple of minutes and I want to give you a few hidden benefits of learning that I've found in my life and that might help to drive your motivation levels to learn and to grow. Things that I'm sure you're not thinking about, but you gonna be glaringly aware happen when you learn So I have these 10 hidden benefits that I wrote down that I feel like learning has helped me to benefit from And I want to go through those with you quickly just to give you a little bit of a new perspective and filter on why learning is not just a necessity, but it's something you should put as a priority in your life. So let me go through these 10 hidden benefits. The first is inspiration. When you're learning, you're gaining ideas and thoughts and perspective that you don't normally have. And that for me has inspired many, many great ideas that I wouldn't have had if I wasn't listening to podcasts or reading books or going through success stories. The second benefit is motivation. When you are learning, you're coming across success stories, you're gaining more confidence, you're gaining more strategies for business. And that's a motivator. That's a really strong motivator in your life. The third benefit is energy. Look, growth and positive emotions and things that you can experience with learning help you to create energy in your life. Energy sometimes can be created outside yourself when you're learning and growing in areas that can help to influence you. The fourth benefit, hidden benefit, would be connection. And when I say connection, I mean it's very difficult at times when you're in your own little zone, you're in your own lane of traffic in the world, to be relatable and to be engaging and knowledgeable on things outside of your particular area of expertise. If you want to be able to connect with people and you want to have a stronger connection, being relatable is key. And so expanding your knowledge base is a way to do that. The fifth benefit would be relevance. Being relevant in today's marketplace is key and you cannot be relevant in today's marketplace if you're not exposing yourself to new ways of learning and being connected to what's going on around you. So relevance is super, super productive and it's a key thing for you to be real and to be relevant. The sixth benefit is mastery. Now this is kind of an obvious one, but you truly develop your unique talents when you learn and grow outside your current base of knowledge. You've got to be able to master things in your life, and you can only do that through education and then application of that education to be able to create new belief structures. The seventh benefit, hidden benefit, is discipline. I quite honestly feel like just having a daily ritual for learning and growth is going to help you to create discipline in your life. It'll give you the structure you need. When you block out time to be able to learn, it helps you to stay consistent. and it helps you to create those daily rituals for growth. The eighth hidden benefit would be opportunities. Now, I can't tell you how many times ideas have come for me through my learning process, my reading, my podcast, things that I tune into, where I found opportunities. Because knowledge leads you to opportunities. It opens up your mind and it adds the ninth thing I was going to mention to you and that clarity Clarity happens when you have different perspectives and approaches and you get constant reminders about what it is that you trying to accomplish in life And learning and the learning process and growth and education help you to do that. So perspective sometimes does give you clarity. And then the final hidden benefit that I wanted to suggest to you is solutions. You know, sometimes we get so focused on our problems and circumstances and models and strategies that we don't gain fresh perspective. And fresh perspective is key. But more than that, when you're learning and focused on certain things in your life, that reticular activating system makes you more aware of things that can help grow and expand your knowledge and unleash your true potential. And solutions will come into your life when you're focused on certain things like learning. So I want you to consider a couple of things with your learning before I let you go here. Number one, what are your interests? What do you want to learn about? Where can you learn about things that you want to master? Also, what are your sources? It's super, super important that you question and look at what are your sources for information. If you're limiting your sources is to one perspective, you're not going to be relatable in life. Make sure that your sources of information are diverse and that they're expanded all of the time, that you're constantly evolving your sources of information. And then, you know, I like what my business partner, Robert Stuber, always says. He says, create a curriculum of learning over your life. Learning is a lifetime process. So much like you would with a university, an education, a course or something, develop a curriculum. What is it you want to learn over the coming years? And develop a curriculum of the types of topics and mastery that you want to have. And that's something that I think is a great perspective as well, to take on your learning not as just stuff that you do every day, but develop a path. A path for your learning will help you to master skills and become much more expanded in your growth and knowledge in the industry that you're in. So I highly encourage you to check out, as I've mentioned before, this Creating Your Ultimate Destiny book that Robert wrote. You can get that on the jointheevolution.com website, or you can go into the show notes and you'll see it as well. But that's a free book. You just cover the shipping and we'll get it out to you. But those are my thoughts today on learning. I think learning can help you to truly create your ultimate destiny. And I'd love for you to share this episode. It would mean the world to us. share this episode with somebody that you know if you've gained value it'll help us to be able to you know inspire these thoughts and and things with other people as well i look forward to talking with you tomorrow i hope you have an amazing week hit me up on the daily mastermind on facebook or instagram and if you haven't yet like and subscribe the podcast and we'll look forward to talking with you again tomorrow have a phenomenal day my name is george wright the third and this has been the daily mastermind Thank you.