Name: Teach Yourself Anything | How to Be a Student for Life
Uploaded: 2017-07-17T07:20:06.000Z
Duration: 6 min 46 s
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and why you should be a student for life.

Learning doesn't only end when school ends.

And it's so important to do that because, first of all,

there's so knowledge and information out there that it would be such a waste

if you stopped learning right when school ended because there's so much more to life.

When you learn something new, it enriches your view of the world.

And it could really help you in your career,

in your relationships, in all areas of your life.

More importantly: I want you all to have that skill of being a student for life.

I want you all to be able to learn on your own and teach yourself things on your own.

That skill is also a mindset and it's so empowering.

If you're going about life and you come across an obstacle or a challenge

where you're stuck because you don't know how to do something, having that mindset

that you're a student for life, you’re like, "You know what?

By the way, I'm doing a giveaway at the end of this video so make sure you stick around

First, let's talk about ways to continue learning

You can learn by reading books on your own.

audiobooks, online classes, YouTube tutorials.

Find local community classes, or just talk to people.

Talk to your friends, family, or strangers to learn about things you really had no idea

Honestly, we're so blessed in this digital age that whatever it is you're curious about,

whatever you want to learn, there's probably an online class

or some resource on the internet just waiting for you to discover.

I owe my entire career to learning on my own through the internet,

because everything I do, everything that I know right now, I learned online.

I went to school for business, so yes, I did learn marketing and basic business skills

But most of the stuff that I use for my career now,

Things that I learned online: I learned how to use a camera, how to edit videos,

how to use Photoshop, how to do coding (like HTML and CSS for my blog).

I took music production classes and songwriting classes for free so I could learn

how to write songs and make music, make my own album.

I've learned so much from YouTube tutorials, like how to watercolor, how to sew,

I've even taken classes on starting a business

Literally so many things that I've learned, thanks to the internet.

One of my favorite resources to learn is called Skillshare and I love Skillshare

because they have such a wide variety of classes.

Personally, I like the creative classes and the ones geared toward

how to be a better content creator or how to do marketing for business online,

things like that that will help me in my career but also fuel my creativity.

It's funny because I actually discovered Skillshare way back in 2012-ish,

One of the first classes I took on Skillshare

was called "Visual Storytelling", and this is before I started my YouTube channel.

I took that class to learn how to be a better visual storyteller through making videos.

So I had to make a video project for that class.

Something that only my Instagram followers would know through my stories is that,

lately, I've been getting really into flowers: learning how to garden and do flower arranging.

There was a night where I was like, "Ugh, I really want to take a flower arranging class,"

and I was looking online for local classes I could take, but none of the shops around

was an actual florist college where people go there to learn how to be a florist,

and their tuition was over $1000 and I was like, "Ugh."

And then it popped into my mind: "I should check Skillshare!" so I went on Skillshare

and looked up flower arranging and there were a good handful of classes,

so I took the first one that was called "Modern Flowers: Arranging a Stunning Centerpiece",

It's broken down into a bunch of mini-videos, but it's gorgeous.

to go in my garden, clip out some flowers, and just put them on my desk,

which is something that I never, ever did before.

If you're anything like me, you like learning new things or exploring new passions,

for two free months of Skillshare premium, which is amazing because you can literally