Lifelong learning matters more now than ever. Generic experience and flexibility cannot compete with serial mastery. Even mastering one skill will not ensure employment for the long-term. 

The shelf life of skills is reducing year after year. If you abandoned learning after achieving mastery in one thing, you will become useless in the next career lifetime. Here are some steps on how to become a lifelong learner –

Develop a Growth Mindset

A growth mindset embraces challenges and change on the way to learning goals. Accept that skill acquisition requires effort, that improvement is possible and that obstacles and others’ success are not reasons to stop your progress.

Take Responsibility for Your Future

When you own your decisions, actions and results, you give yourself the power to make changes independent of whatever happened to you yesterday. Lifelong learners grow because they understand they have the power and responsibility to mold their progress.

Stretch Beyond Your Own Expectations

Comfort zones gives a false sense of security which you have to push beyond to become a lifelong learner. Contentment is the enemy of success when things change so rapidly.

Lifelong learners invent and reinvent themselves whenever they find or create the opportunity. When you become a lifelong learner and focus on continual learning, you claim the power to face the future successfully.