I had this thought last night about learning as an adult. As most of us get older, the learning slows and for some it may even stop. I had this idea that this might contribute to life getting stale. When we’re born, we’re a complete blank slate. We need to learn EVERYTHING. How to crawl, walk, talk, play, read, and on and on.
We start from scratch. All the way up until adulthood, it’s pretty much nonstop learning. As we get older as adults, we start to settle into routines. This is where learning often slows down. And this is where I feel like we can start to lose some of that passion for life that we had growing up.
I’d lost that beginner’s curiosity myself until about five years ago. I didn’t read much back then. Doing 75 Hard requires ten pages of reading per day, so that started the habit. During that process, I found I really enjoyed learning and getting back into personal development. Ten pages a day can get you through about one book per month, twelve books per year.
The amount of knowledge you can gain from this is massive. For me, it’s been everything from practical habits like James Clear’s Atomic Habits to big-picture ideas that shift how I see the world. It’s enough to change the trajectory of one’s life if some of the knowledge is applied. What could ten pages a day do for you?
— Bus