Feed Your Mind
by Jim Rohn
Have you heard about the accelerated learning curve?
From birth, up until the time we are about eighteen, our learning
curve is dramatic, and our capacity to learn during this period is
just staggering. We learn a tremendous amount very fast. We learn
language, culture, history, science, mathematics...everything!
For some people, the accelerated learning process
will continue on. But for most, it levels off when they get their
first job. If there are no more exams to take, if there's no demand
to get out paper and pencil, why read any more books?
Of course, you will learn some things through experience. Just
getting out there—sometimes doing it wrong and sometimes doing
it right—you will learn.
Can you imagine what would happen if you kept up
an accelerated learning curve all the rest of your life? Can you
imagine what you could learn to do, the skills
you could develop, and the capacities you could have? Here's what I'm
asking you to do: be that unusual person who keeps up his learning
curve and develops an appetite for always trying to find good ideas.
One way to feed
your mind
and educate your philosophy is through the writings of influential
people. Maybe you can't meet the person, but you can read his or her
books. Churchill is gone, but we still
have his books. Aristotle is gone, but we still have his ideas.
Search the libraries for books and programs. Search magazines.
Search documentaries. They are full of opportunities for
intellectual feasting.
In addition to reading
and listening , you also need a
chance to do some talking and sharing. I have some people
in my life who help me with important life questions, who assist
me in refining my own philosophy, weighing my values and
pondering questions about success and
lifestyle.
We all need association with people of substance
to provide influence concerning major issues such as society,
money, enterprise, family, government, love, friendship, culture,
taste, opportunity, and community. Philosophy is mostly influenced
by ideas, ideas are mostly influenced by education, and education
is mostly influenced by the people with whom we associate.
One of the great fortunes of my life was to be
around my mentor, Mr. Shoaff, for five years. During that time he
shared with me at dinner, during airline flights, at business
conferences, in private conversations and in groups. He gave me
many ideas that enabled me to make small daily adjustments in my
philosophy and activities. Those daily changes, some very slight,
but very important, soon added up to weighty sums.
A big part of the lesson was having Mr. Shoaff
repeat the ideas over and over. You just can't hear the fundamentals
of life philosophy too often. They are the
greatest form of nutrition, the building blocks for a
well-developed mind.
I'm asking that you feed
your mind just
as you do your body. Feed it with good ideas, wherever they can be found.
Always be on the lookout for a good idea—a business idea, a product idea,
a service idea, an idea for personal improvement. Every new idea will
help to refine your philosophy. Your philosophy will guide your
life , and your life will unfold with
distinction and pleasure.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
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© 2008 by Jim Rohn International. All Rights Reserved.
Jim Rohn is considered to be America's Foremost Business
Philosopher, with a career that has spanned over 37
years and touched the lives of over three million people
worldwide. He has been internationally hailed over the
years as one of the most influential thinkers of our
time and has helped motivate an entire generation of
personal development trainers as well as hundreds of
executives from America's top corporations. He's been
described as everything from a master motivator, to a
modern day Will Rogers, to a legend!
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