From the course: Happiness Tips

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Tips for getting more learning into your life

Tips for getting more learning into your life

From the course: Happiness Tips

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Tips for getting more learning into your life

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- If you think about what it is that you like about your job, as well as the people you work with, there will probably be something about variety and challenge. The fact that you're moving forwards and learning new things. In fact, if you think about it, how long could you do a job for? That was easy, and which you were good at, and the pay was okay but you weren't learning anything new. Maybe six months, maybe a year or two at the most. Years ago as part of my engineering apprenticeship, I worked in a machine shop for six weeks making washers to go into some part of the helicopters that we made. And each day of those six weeks, I would make about a thousand washers on my lathe. For the first few days, it was quite fun. And then, for the following week, it was still okay because I was good at it, and also I felt I was still improving. But then, it became boring. And I started to entertain myself by seeing how fast I could make them, and putting the finished washers into pyramids and…

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