Never give up on learning new things

And how it can help you socially and professionally!

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Growing up in a priest family with a father that was always reading books, keeping up to date newswise, and constantly learning new things. Looking back I see that my father affected me more than I knew, in fact, I didn’t realize it until he was gone. But I treasure his legacy and I know I have passed on some of to my daughters.

It all falls to four simple things you also can do to improve yourself:

1. Always have a book at hand. Reading is proven to improve your memory and helps prevent cognitive decline among many other things.
2. Always be curious. My father was always looking up things in encyclopedias to learn new things.
3. Never be afraid to discuss things you are no expert on. This way your learning fast tracks in a surprising way.
4. Be social and engage with others.

Today it’s easy to always have a book at hand, we can have it on or phones or tablets. But having an actual book in your hands means the distractions are down to more or less zero and you can focus on the story or subject. I also find that an actual book makes it easier for me to build my pictures of people and environments in the book. Plus the bonus when you have read a book is the…