Lifelong learning and personal development has many benefits but also some negative aspects. These, however, should be taken as challenges in order to deliver benefits. Businessknowhow.com highlighted the most common pitfalls of lifelong learning and offered practical advice on how to overcome them.
First pitfall : Too much theory without practical application
Solution: From each training program or book you choose take a list of the most important ideas in relation to your current situation. Then select the most important one and implement it at work or in private life.
Second pitfall: Excessive amount of information
Solution: Remember that quality is more important than quantity. Always choose only one program or one book on which you concentrate at a time.
Third pitfall: Investment in the latest trends before finshing the already started
Solution: Be disciplined. Do not accept new "attractive" offers to learn until you finish what you had started.
Fourth pitfall: Feeling that you still do not know enough and you are not good enough
Solution: In each field, there is some space for learning throughout the whole life, therefore you cannot know everything. This does not mean, however, that you should hesitate to use knowledge and skills you have already gained.
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