I have been reading text books for the past few months. Among my next plan to pursue professional growth is to pursue professional certificate on the field different than what I am currently doing.
Some may thought it would be difficult to continue studying after you’ve left university more than a decade ago. The commitment you currently have as a working adult, a parent, and some may not foresee the need to obtain a qualification – these may hinder you from chasing your own goal.
Sometimes I find it to be difficult too. The mental stress from demanding job, the power of concentration no longer can keep you stay focus for more than 30 minutes, the awareness to sleep and rest adequately to ensure good health, getting old, and the excuses keep coming.
We are by nature creatures of impatience. It has always been hard for us to want something and not have the capacity to get it. The increased speed from technology accentuates this childish aspect of our character. The slow accumulation of knowledge seems unnecessarily boring.
The 50th Law, Robert Greene
You can deal with these problems, by (in my opinion) having a good critical thinking skill and you’re good at reading and understanding what you’ve read. These are what I keep telling myself to practice on. These are what might shape and strengthen your mental health and endurance.
To reach the end of anything, to master a process, requires time, focus, and energy. When people are so distracted, their minds constantly moving from one thing to another, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain concentration on one thing for a few hours, let alone for months and years. Under this influence, the mind will tend to short-circuit; it will not be able to go all the way to the end of a task.
The 50th Law, Robert Greene
Ignorance is bliss, but if everyone adopt this proverb, we may not have a good force to run this country forward.
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