“It is never too late to learn.”
Roger l’Estrange (1616-1704)
English journalist and pamphleteer

“I’ve been in this business for over 25 years. I have run out of things to learn,” was one of the saddest comments I have ever heard from one of my recent seminar attendees.

Stop learning?

  • Don’t we need to learn from our customers so we can effectively serve them?
  • Don’t we need to learn what our competition is doing?
  • Don’t we need to learn how our peers and employees feel about working with us?
  • Don’t we need to learn how much we DON’T know?

Once you lose your hunger to learn, you lose the ability to positively effect everybody around you. And who would choose that? And it’s not enough to be open to learning, you have to aggressively seek opportunities to learn. Because customers, competition, peers, employees and family members won’t often seek you out to tell you how you can be more valuable to them. You have to ask. And when you ask, you show a willingness to learn. So this week, ask more questions than ever. And by this time next week, you will be just a little smarter…and more valuable.