{"id":54482,"date":"2021-11-09T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=54482"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:07:14","slug":"importance-of-continuous-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/importance-of-continuous-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Continuous Learning to Life Success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is the importance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/keep-learning-keep-growing\/\">continuous learning<\/a> to success in life? What is the right way to learn?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ability of voracious readers to see the world differently and to constantly develop solutions to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/complex-problem\/\">complex problems<\/a> affirms the importance of continuous learning. To succeed in life, you need to spend each day trying to be smarter than when you woke up. The best way to learn is to figure things out yourself instead of being spoon-fed information that has been modified to suit the machinations of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read on to discover more about the importance of continuous learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: This article is part of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/hub\/professional\/work\/team-building-guide\/\">Shortform\u2019s guide to team-building<\/a>. If you like what you read here, there\u2019s plenty more to check out in the guide!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-importance-of-continuous-learning-nbsp\"><strong>The Importance of Continuous Learning&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Munger and Buffett are both famous for their curiosity and their voracious reading.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201c<strong>In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn\u2019t read all the time \u2014 none, zero.<\/strong> You\u2019d be amazed at how much Warren reads \u2014 and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I\u2019m a book with a couple of legs sticking out.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Munger\u2019s friends note that he wants to understand everything to a fundamental level, to know what makes something tick.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>\u201cYou need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening.<\/strong> That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves your ability to focus on reality. If you don\u2019t have that cast of mind, you\u2019re destined for failure even if you have a high I.Q.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u00a0\u201cCuriosity, concentration, perseverance, and self-criticism.\u201d\u2014Einstein<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spend each day trying to be a little smarter than when you woke up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Munger emphasizes that the key importance of continuous learning is that it helps us discover new ways to see the world and gains new tools to solve problems with. This can mean discarding his previous favorite ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\u201cWhen a better tool (idea or approach) comes along, what could be better than to swap it for your old, less useful tool?\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cIf you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.\u201d \u2013Epictetus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Munger is a particular fan of biographies. He likes tying a field\u2019s big ideas to the real people who developed them. You can learn economics better if you think of Adam Smith as your friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-to-learn\"><strong>How to Learn<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Simply understanding the importance of continuous learning and spending a lot of time learning won\u2019t produce the best results. Ideally, you optimize <em>how<\/em> you learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Munger believes that <strong>the best lessons are learned through figuring things out yourself<\/strong>, not from being spoonfed information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of fun for it to be a little complicated. If you want it totally easy and laid out, maybe you should join some cult that claims to provide all the answers. If you figure it out and do the outlining yourself, the ideas will stick better than if you memorize \u2019em using somebody else\u2019s cram list.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>People ask Munger often for the secrets to success. He finds this question a sign of a feeble mind and never wants to make it easy for the listener. Instead, people should derive their own tools for success\u2014their checklists and character traits\u2014and train them for the rest of their lives.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cIt is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.\u201d\u2014Max Planck<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-interdisciplinary-learning\"><strong>Interdisciplinary Learning<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Alon with Munger\u2019s insistence on the importance of continuous learning, he also emphasizes multidisciplinary learning. He argues that the way fighter pilots are trained is an exemplar for multidisciplinary learning overall. It includes six components:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>He gains a formal education that\u2019s broad enough to cover everything needed in piloting.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He gains a fluency of knowledge not just to pass academic tests, but to execute flawlessly, even in emergency situations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He\u2019s often made to think in forward (what he wants to happen) as well as in reverse (how to avoid the outcomes he doesn\u2019t want.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He prioritizes his training time by focusing on the most important aspects to minimize damage. These most important aspects are trained to fluency.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Checklists are mandatory to prevent errors and omissions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Even after initial training is complete, continued maintenance is mandatory. He uses the aircraft simulator to prevent atrophy of skills and to remember how to react to rare but critical problems.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Interdisciplinary learning buttresses the importance of continuous learning because it crosses disciplines and calls for unconventional solutions. For example, suppose two old ladies inherit a shoe factory that makes branded shoes and have all sorts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/common-business-problems\/\">business problems<\/a> in quality control, supply chain, and management. How do you advise they solve their problem?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The typical answer is to hear their problems, then write up pages of consultation on how each one can be solved.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The correct answer is to advise they sell the company, because the problem is way out of their league.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: In a similar problem, in a Stanford MBA class, students were given $10 and told to maximize profits from it, then present for 10 minutes on what they did. Many students thought literally about the problem, using the $10 to buy cheap goods like water bottles and to resell them. Some clever students realized that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/real-value-paper-value-technological-revolutions\/\">real value<\/a> of their project was their time, which they sold by standing in line at restaurants and such. The winning team sold the 10 minute slot to a company who wanted to hire MBAs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These problems might be solved by inverting the problem. For the two old ladies, how would you maximize the value to them at the end of the day? For the MBA problem, what are all the assets that you have available, and what can you do with them? What if you had $0 instead of $10?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the importance of continuous learning to success in life? What is the right way to learn? The ability of voracious readers to see the world differently and to constantly develop solutions to complex problems affirms the importance of continuous learning. To succeed in life, you need to spend each day trying to be smarter than when you woke up. The best way to learn is to figure things out yourself instead of being spoon-fed information that has been modified to suit the machinations of others. 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