BE A STUDENT
One has something to learn every day. If we think that we are students, there is no scope for
ego to develop. There is only the urge to know and learn. There is always curiosity to know
more and more and understand the truth. One is always tuned to gain knowledge from each
and everybody and each and every situation. There are ants, spiders, crows and so on which
teach good lesion in life.
A person becomes angry and picks a quarrel where he provides us with an opportunity to
learn new lesson on life. A child smiles and a powerful message conveyed to us. We get the
right education when we educate ourselves as and when we encounter a new situation. Life
is a constant educative process. Not only that we learn from others, but we also learn from
ourselves many lesson on life.
When someone behaves in a bad way, we get a feeling of discomfort, where we can ask
ourselves as to how we become unhappy. We are able to analyse the situation and teach
ourselves appropriate lessons. Somewhere we are supposed to be keeping silent, somewhere
we are supposed to be keeping silent, somewhere we are supposed to be responding instantly,
somewhere we need not to respond at all and so on and so forth. This process needs to be
learnt and experienced and understood . A person with a student mind-set is the one who
always learns new facts, aspects and levels of life without any exaggeration or surprises. It is
said that when we stop learning we start aging.
Peter Drucker, the father of modern management , who lived until he was 95 once observed
that every three or four years he picked up a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it might
be economics. Three years of study are by no means enough to master a subject but mere
enough to understand it. So for more than 60 years he kept studying one subject at a time.
Similarly is the case with the former Israeli prime minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner. He
once said that he read when he got up in the morning, when he could during the day and every
single evening . Most of his weekend he spent reading great books.
