Always Be Learning: Is This Our Most Important Practice?

Working hard on the easy things is how you learn to fly.

Wassily Kandinsky’s “Circles In A Circle (1923)”

I told you how (with Pattern Recognition) I realized that I still haven’t gotten to some of the most important concepts and practices for both building a N-DCEPTA (a non-dependent cinema ecosystem prioritizing the artist) and creating a sustainable and generative creative life), right? I want back to this list again to see what I’ve missed. Yup. I am checking another box now.

How do we build a path of lifetime learning into all that we do? That’s really the question of the day. It would be nice if the simple desire to do so could satisfy such a quest. I don’t think we are built that way though, at least I’ve found that I am not. I have to keep certain goals top of mind. The shiny pretty things distract me. It is hard to move in a straight line. We all need some sort of blinders, even when we are digging the hole we are in. Furthermore, I would never encourage you to try this on your own. Learning works better with others. Find allies. Keep the good ones close.

Like anything else, it helps to understand why we’d want to do this in the first place. If you stall there, I am afraid it may be a warning sign. Let’s get to the list, yeah?