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Rules of Thinking, The
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Rules of Thinking, The

by Richard Templar
September 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 15m
English
Pearson Business
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RULE 25

Keep learning

Anything that gets clogged up and becomes stagnant is going to be unhealthy, and that applies to your mind as much as it does to anything else. If you want to stay healthy you have to stay active, in mind as well as in body. And that means learning new skills, gaining new knowledge, having new experiences.

If you don’t do this, you’ll become set in your ways and life will be repetitive, dull, unstimulating. ‘As though to breathe were life,’ as Tennyson said.5 I fully appreciate that some people enjoy the routine of a predictable life and have no wish to travel the globe. That’s fine, but there’s still plenty of room within that to stretch and exercise your brain.

Humans thrive on challenge – you, me, everyone. We may ...

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ISBN: 9781292263823