Lifelong Learning is a form of learning where we can start learning new things by ourselves, regardless of our age. We can continue to learn new things endlessly.
Even past jobs or past positions can disappear. Even past giant companies can close down because they or those companies lacked learning, lacked continuous development, and were eventually swallowed up by the waves of change.
In this era, new technologies or new products are released every minute. New companies are born in this world every minute. And there is the advent of Automation or Artificial Intelligence that plays a role in every context of this world.
Traditional jobs are disappearing, but the demand for new job markets and new knowledge sets is also increasing. In fact, this is a warning signal for us to urgently learn and develop ourselves because the jobs we do today may no longer exist in the next few years.
I believe that we ourselves would not want to encounter this, right?
So if you don’t want to be unemployed in the near future, start learning and developing yourself now. This is the reason and importance of why “ continuous learning ” is important and why we must give importance to continuous learning.
“The benefits of continuous learning”
The benefits of “ continuous learning ” are not just about gaining new knowledge or skills, or making it easier to find a job, or making us have a stable job. There are also many interesting by-products from continuous learning, such as:
Make our brain healthy and strong, and also live longer:
If exercise makes the body strong, the brain also needs exercise to make itself strong. One way to exercise the brain is through learning.
Learning new skills and doing new activities will help improve our memory and improve our brain function.
A study from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School found that older adults who engage in continuous learning throughout their lives have a lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease (dementia). And continuous learning also helps with better memory.
And there are additional studies that “continuous learning” helps to increase longevity. The results of these studies make us think of many elderly people in our country or abroad who are scholars, thinkers or researchers. These people all have excellent memories and intelligence, even though they are over 70 or 80 years old.
Make us mentally healthy and strong:
Did you know that reading books can help reduce stress easily?
A study from the University of Sussex in England found that reading a book for just 6 minutes can reduce our stress levels and also improve our heart rate.
For the elderly, reading books has even greater benefits. Not only does it reduce stress, it also helps improve the immune system, lowers blood pressure, and reduces the chances of stroke and heart disease.
No wonder many famous writers and teachers, both domestic and international, have good physical and mental health because of reading a lot of books like this.
If we are young, we have an advantage because if we do not want to be at risk of various diseases, reading a little bit of books every day, just 6 minutes at a time, can easily reduce the risk of various diseases.
Make us feel alive by meeting new friends and new social circles:
Because the form of “Lifelong Learning” is not limited to self-learning, such as reading books or learning from online systems, but also includes learning with others, or what is called “Social Learning”.
“Social Learning” is also a very important learning because it is learning through a group of people who may have similar interests or like the same things, resulting in a wide range of social interactions, creating new groups of friends, etc.
Studies have shown that older adults who interact with social media alongside learning will be healthier, less ill, and happier because they learn and are around people who share the same interests, and there is positive support and encouragement.
This is true not only for the elderly, but also for working people or ordinary people. When we have the opportunity to study by joining new groups or going to study where we have to meet new people, we will definitely receive positive energy into our lives as well.
So if we want to be lively, not to be bored or burned out, try to find new skills that are like “Social Learning” and study them. I guarantee that our lives will be much more meaningful.
At this point, you probably understand and should start giving serious importance to the issue of “Lifelong Learning” .
Reference:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/5070874/Reading-can-help-reduce-stress.html
https://n.neurology.org/content/85/1/48
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797613499592?papetoc=
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