There are a lot of things to be learned in the world. You could begin right now reading book after book during every minute of the rest of your life and you could still not read all of the books that have been written. The amount of knowledge that is possible to learn is literally endless. However, just because you will never learn everything there is to know does not mean that you should not make an effort to always be getting an education from life.
Be committed to increasing your knowledge and to education does not have to be hard, tiring, or boring. On the contrary, education can be as fun, exciting, and diverse as you make it. One of the first things that needs to take place before you can begin to throw yourself into learning new things as an adult is a re-defining of ‘education.’ The majority of adults cannot think of the word ‘education’ without immediately being flooded with memories of the first two decades of their life. Suddenly we remember all of the good and not so good parts about being in school and we give up any desire or attempt to continue our education now. But getting an education or deciding to be a lifelong learner does not...