In your lifetime you'll always meet interesting and sometimes wise people. Those people might be teaches, counselors, personal coaches or any other random sort of people one meets during their life. Sometimes these people try to help you to reach a higher platform in your life. They encourage you to get the best out of yourself. They do so by sometimes saying that through study one can get better job opportunities and chances. I also had those people in my life, and I still do have them in my life, for which I'm thankfull.
Right now, one of those people encouraged me to follow a study to get better career chances. So I chosed a path for me which will eventually get me to be a pensionplan advisor, hopefully. To get there I have to study, and well, since it's been awhile since I saw a studybook up close, it is pretty difficult to get started again. But I have succeeded in starting, and today I'm going to do the first exam. After that I still will have to do two more exams. So maybe by the end of next year, I'll have done those two exams and I can get started with the beginning of my new career chances.
But why do people say that study is the only way to get ahead in life? Where did they found that sort of wisdom? Was it passed to them by older generations? And if so, where did the whole idea of study start? My best guess would be with the ancient Greeks of Socrates, Plato and Aristoteles. They more or less discovered that by asking questions and learning from their answers they reached a higher level in their life. At that time some questioned their methods, which lead to the death of one of the first philosophers. Nowadays people still questions the ones that seek knowledge, but luckily for them they don't get punished for it. I don't question the seekers of knowledge, since I consider myself to be one of those seekers. I seek knowledge through study, through reading and through the experience of life. One can get to a higher level not just by study, but also by observing the world and all of it's inhabitants. Most helpfull are other people. When observing other people you can learn a great deal, about life, love, happiness, fortune, but also about the misfortune, unhappiness and unlove.
But for now, I'll focuss on my exam and try to get just that little step up to the next level in my life.
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Wise people are always interesting people and we should listen to them.
Studying can help with a career but it´s also good in a personal way. Knowledge is never enough, you never know too much. I guess that´s the fun in it. I think that if we see study as a personal advantage, it´s easier to start a study because then you don´t feel it´s mandatory. Studying can be fun, but we only see that in the end, when we know more than when we started.
Keep seeking the knowledge and keep observing like Socrates and Plato did. I believe people should stop more often to think about life and what really is important. Wisdom and the search for knowledge is very important. Otherwise do we have the ability to think?
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