Lifelong learning leads to advancement and goes beyond simply getting promotions and pay raises. Lifelong learners also benefit in additional ways including gaining independence, competency, the ability to reach one’s own potential and to help others reach theirs.
Remember the old story about the visitor to a construction site, asking several bricklayers what they were doing. The first responded, “I’m laying brick.” The second said, “I’m finishing this wall.” While the third stated, “I’m building a cathedral.”
Sometimes we need to step back and look at the “big picture” and see where we fit in the overall scheme of things. And if it’s not where we thought we were, that should be an incentive to make the needed changes in our lives.
