How to Keep Learning as an Adult: Build Your Own Curriculum & Become a Student Again
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Why can you be a student again without being enrolled in school?
Continuous education helps you develop the skill of being bad at things again. Well, shout out to all the perfectionists out there. This is hard. There's always more to learn. There's always more to explore. There's always more to be curious about. And you can be open to that. And you can actually, even in adulthood, dedicate your time and energy to that. What do I want to learn? How do I want to learn? Where do I want to learn? Who do I want to learn from? So you mean who, what, where, when, why? Kind of. Oh, I want to get my PhD. I just think it would be fun. And like the opportunity to be a student again and go really, really deep into one topic. Yeah. Like that's like a dream. What a luxury. Equine therapy. Equine therapy, I can't wait.
I love horses, guys. I don't talk about this enough on the podcast. I'm Sheree. I'm Jean. And we're the Tiger Sisters. We are your Wall Street and Silicon Valley big sisters. And we're a top 10 business podcast bringing late night sister talk meets boardroom strategy. Hi, Tiger fam. It's officially back to school season. And today we're going to talk about how to be a continuous learner, even if you're not in school and even if you're not a student anymore. So growing up, most people have a very linear understanding of education. You go to elementary school, you go to middle school, high school, maybe college, maybe grad school. And then and then what? You're just done learning for the rest of your
life.
something we've been thinking about lately is why you should never stop being a student it's about adopting a mindset of always being a student and operationalizing your own learning which means figuring out specific ways to bring it back into your life so today we are going to be talking through all the ways that sheree and i operationalize keeping learning in your life even after you've graduated whether it's conferences retreats apps, museums, reading, classes, and much more. The point is you don't need to be in school to be a student again. But you can attend Tiger Sisters University. So let's get into it. I'm so excited to dive into this episode all about learning because I think it's pretty clear Jean and I are pretty big fans of learning, whether it's inside the classroom, which we've done a ton of, and also outside of the classroom.
Yeah. And I mean, I've said this before, but I am like, oh, I want to get my Ph.D. I just think it would be fun. And like the opportunity to be a student again and go really, really deep into one topic. Yeah. Like that's like a dream. What a luxury. Yeah. I mean, Jean and I love learning. We love being students. And I think if you are a student right now listening to this. You got it good. Like I know it feels stressful right now because you probably have midterms and exams and all these like office hours with professors. But like for me, when I undergrad was stressful, but grad school, it's just like you can go into a classroom. You have a syllabus. You have a planned out like structure of what you're going to learn when.
Of course, the assignments are like kind of annoying, but like obviously you're learning through them. But it's like amazing because you have this structure. structure in the classroom yeah I mean and I would say in that way your own continuous learning in some ways can be even better than the structured learning because when you're in college when you're in high school it feels really high stakes yeah you're under a lot of pressure to get good grades but when you're creating your own curriculum as an adult there isn't necessarily that pressure and you could just pursue what you like for the joy of learning for the joy of just continuing to develop yourself Yeah. But in that same vein, I would say it's also harder when you're out of school because you're missing that structure.
Right. Like you're not given the timeline and the midterm to do. So it's really up to you to hold yourself accountable and to give yourself permission to create the structure yourself and be very intentional about it. so i think it's important to label what we've just talked about which is that there are two modes of learning there's one which is kind of learning for work and to advance your career versus there's learning just for the sake of curiosity and improving your your mind i guess yeah and i think it's okay to have seasons of one versus the other and if you have a lot of time maybe doing both at the same time but as you're balancing competing priorities in your life whether
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Why can you be a student again without being enrolled in school?
0:00–8:20
2
How do you differentiate learning for career advancement versus learning for pure curiosity?
8:20–19:37
3
What are the brain‑health benefits of continuous adult learning?
19:37–39:59
4
How can you design your own adult curriculum using the 5 Ws (who, what, where, when, why)?
39:59–43:37
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