A Reflection on Lifelong Learning and Habits of a Successful Lifelong Learner

Habit 6: Use technology to your advantage. This is related to habit 5, where we should build the lifelong learner habits to keep pace with technology change. This digital communication era will make possible for the lifelong learners to learn independently and take as much as advantages from it and connect to the world. I found myself not so easy to catch up with technology use in the first place. But then I realised that the use of technology will help me as a lifelong learner to demonstrate my learning process and share evidence of my learning process as well.

Habit 7: Teach or mentor others. This habit is one of my favorite. There is always feeling of happiness and fulfillment once I could share what I have learnt to others. And this feeling, hopefully, will stay there, in my heart, forever.

Habit 7 1/2: Play. This number is unique and will remind us to not forgetting to play. There will be a process of learning and brain development alongside every play as children's brain development have showed us, but this will be not limited to children experience. As an adult, we will also gain those advantages. As one of the research found that the adult's brain will be still built even after the age of 70s as long as it is used to pursuing intellectually stimulating activities, such as playing and learning. So, in this last habit, let's reflect on this wise words below because this might be the most important habit of the successful of lifelong learners, "Play, be curious, and read!"