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Quite a few of my friends are true life-long learners, but many aren’t, and I know that most people aren’t. As I walk through shopping malls and airports, I just don’t get the impression that most of these people are still working on being the best person they can be. I sympathize with their attitude. After all these years, you are what you are, right? Shouldn’t people accept you for who you are at this point in your life? Besides, self-development is supposed to benefit you “in general,” prepare you for some kind of undefined challenge in the future. There’s usually no immediate payoff for your learning efforts. One of the smartest people I know, a psychologist, claims that it’s more important to accept who you are than to try to be something else. I guess I feel that while it’s important to accept who we are, we can continue our personal growth, and there’s so much to learn. I like what pro basketball legend Julius Erving (Doctor J) says about it: “The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life “ mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.” My interpretation: don’t expect the good things in life to come to you just because you need them, hope for them or feel you deserve them. Expect success to be hard-earned. So the stronger you are in every area of your life, the more ready you’ll be to do what’s best for you. I’d like to offer this encouragement to anyone reading this post: even though the world changes constantly and will continue to surprise you with unexpected challenges, you can prepare yourself to deal with them. Learning and growing stronger as a person doesn’t have to stop, no matter how old you are. New knowledge, new skills, new experiences, new levels of self-awareness, inner strength and physical strength—all these are yours if you seek them.
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Dennis E. Coates is CEO of Performance Support Systems, author of MindFrames, a brain-based personality assessment system (www.initforlife.com) and co-founder of the Train-to-Ingrain alliance (www.train-to-ingrain.com, info@train-to-ingrain.com, 800-488-6463), which delivers a reinforcement-centered approach to learning and development that achieves permanent, measurable improvements in workplace behavior and positive impacts on business results.
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