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Never Stop Learning

Posted by John Saddington on May 29, 2009

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Never stop learning.

I learned this very early on in my career when I quickly realized that if I was to be even half as good as I’d like to be I’d better be willing to become a “student for life” in the areas that I wanted to master.

So I have purposely, explicitly, and intentionally sought out opportunities to learn. I don’t expect that I’ll just pick stuff up by being around people or by doing stuff. I pro-actively learn.

Don’t be arrogant. Don’t be apathetic. Don’t waste the chance to do something great just because you never actually learned how to do it.

And make sure that you help teach others to learn too.

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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13 Responses to “Never Stop Learning”

  1. Jim
    Friday, May 29, 2009 at 2:00 pm

    Dude, I make regular trips to the library and I listen and read.

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  2. chrissulli
    Friday, May 29, 2009 at 2:05 pm

    I graduated…

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  3. buchanan23
    Friday, May 29, 2009 at 2:07 pm

    Good word! I also try to do this. I am currently enrolled in school working towards an degree in Networking and trying to read whenever I can. Even on a more personal level, I look at every person as if they have something to teach me, something that I can learn from them and their life experiences. It's a great way to view people!

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    • human3rror
      Friday, May 29, 2009 at 2:11 pm

      you're right about that.

      i've been a student for everrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr… yippee!

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  4. human3rror
    Friday, May 29, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    you the man!

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  5. chrishill
    Friday, May 29, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    I live to take in and give out as much as I can. However, I have to intentionally stop and focus on certain areas or I end up being very mediocre at lots of different things and end up spreading myself too thin. Does that make sense?

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    • human3rror
      Friday, May 29, 2009 at 2:53 pm

      yeah it does. i actually talked with someone this morning about this….!

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  6. Rodlie Ortiz
    Friday, May 29, 2009 at 3:40 pm

    Yup…this is the truth…we can either choose to me mediocre, or choose to achieve and fulfill the potential that God has placed within us. So I completely agree…we must constantly continue learning. I enjoy reading and I'm involved in some coaching relationships with pastors who are much smarter and experienced than I am. This helps to expose me to whole other levels of learning that I wouldn't have seen without it. That's actually why I started blogging because I wanted to have a way to process everything that I was learning. If you don't process and apply and try to implement, it's information that's lost. But if you can write about it, teach it, dialogue on it, and implement it….you're probably going to remember it! Cheers.

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    • human3rror
      Friday, May 29, 2009 at 3:56 pm

      I think writing, for me, helps me solidify the learning… thanks for that rodlie!

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  7. Aaron
    Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 2:18 am

    Word.

    Care to pay for my CCNP bootcamp? :)

    Reply

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