LEADERS LEARN CONTINUOUSLY

In a recent article published on Forbes.com, I found some provoking comments pertaining to leadership and being a lifelong student.
First the definition of a Life Long Leaner from Wikipedia. It defines defines Lifelong learning, also known as LLL, as the "lifelong, lifewide, voluntary, and self-motivated" pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons. As such, it not only enhances social inclusion, active citizenship and personal development, but also competitiveness and employability.
Learning is not confined to childhood or the classroom, but takes place throughout life and in a range of situations. Learning can no longer be divided into a place and time to acquire knowledge (school) and a place and time to apply the knowledge acquired (the workplace). In the Forbes article it was said that learning is like the weather. Everybody talks about it, but nobody does much about it.
True leaders, though, can never be switched off to learning opportunities. As John F. Kennedy wrote in a speech he was to give the day he was assassinated, "Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other." Leaders learn constantly. They actively strive to learn at every moment. Taking every opportunity, every conversation, interaction, event, and learn from it. Leaders learn continuously. When they are learning they purpose not allow distraction. Research has shown that it is more efficacious to study for one hour straight than for two hours with interruption. Interruptions break our train of thought and limit our ability to retain information. They take the power out of learning.
Leaders learn cyclically. They understand that life is never one-dimensional. They learn by repetition and repeated review. Whatever subject they are learning, they can never learn all of it the first time, they often cycle back to learn more and gain a deeper understanding of the topic.
Having a teachable attitude implies that you know how much you don't know. So where is Your next learning opportunity?