I recently completed a career that spanned 46 years and am now in a period of transition. At 68, I feel my best years are still ahead, and I attribute this attitude to my belief that there is always more to master. I am a committed life-long learner.
Whatever your profession, if you aren’t growing by continuing to learn, you are becoming irrelevant. In Success Magazine (November 14, 2018), Travis Bradberry wrote an article titled, “9 Bad Habits That Can Lead to Unhappiness.” The eighth bad habit he identifies is not improving. Of this he writes, “Because unhappy people are pessimists and feel a lack of control over their lives, they tend to sit back and wait for life to happen to them. Instead of setting goals, learning and improving themselves, they just keep plodding along, and then they wonder why things never change. Don’t let this be you.”
As a sales professional, you do not want to become irrelevant – or unhappy – and life-long learning can ensure that does not happen. Here are its benefits as I see them:
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