You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~Clay P. Bedford
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. ~Eartha Kitt
When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb
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You don’t need to have degree in order to become a writer, that’s for sure. However, the most important thing you need to have is self learning. Self learning never takes a holiday. So, it means you should be learning something every day, even if it is just a new word, or a fact about something that interest you.
Learning is define as acquiring new knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, preferences or understanding, and may involve synthesizing different types of information.
The internet is a place suitable for self learning.
With so many sites available to discover new stuff, you can learn a lot of things from the internet alone.
As a writer, self learning is important because the world is changing and no matter what you are writing, you will need to keep updated with the latest trend – to make sure you survive in this industry.
I would suggest you to use StumbleUpon toolbar to discover new sites and interesting stuff every day.
Apart from that, here is a list of the resources you can explore in order to learn more about anything at anytime convenient to you.
Learning Communities
Free Books
Audio Books
Reference sites
University Open Course
Online courses
Search Engines
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I don’t look for books to read or research how to be a better writer but I like to think every article I write my skill continues to grow. Perhaps I should be looking into improving my writing skills but none the less I’m still trying to get better on a personal level.
Yeah, not everyone likes to read books anyway so different people would have different approach at writing something.
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I think learning is very important but learning without applying the knowledge is absolutely useless! So I stole this from someone… don't know who but "Applied Knowledge is POWER" and that is something that has stuck with me through a lot of years hope that is helpful
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