Fulfillment through learning

Photo by Ben Ziegler

I learned from someone (wish I remembered who) that as you learn there is a point where you start to plateau. And as you plateau, you become complacent because you believe you have more knowledge than others.  And because you believe you know more, you stop pushing to learn more.

To keep from being complacent you need to jump to the next thing, to learn something new, taking the risk of jumping from what you are an expert on to something that you are not the expert on, for learning is what truly fulfill us.

Don't stop learning.

I am lucky

Me in highschool doing what I love

I often tell my kids, "Everyday I learn something new. If I didn't, I wouldn't be enjoying life and living my life to (what I consider) it fullest."

I am extremely lucky to work at a job where I don't learn just one new thing every day, but often I learn many new things. I have the opportunity to work with great people, new technologies, old technologies and some in between. I get the fun challenges of trying to make them all work together. I have the opportunity to take look for ways to improve how I work and to help others around me to improve.

I am lucky.  

I often tell the people around me, if you don't enjoy what you are doing, go do something else.  It is not considered quitting, it is called living your life. 

So my question to you, "Do you enjoy what you do?"