As time goes on, I’m finding that people who are always striving to learn more tend to have more success in business. From my vantage point, it seems to cover two areas:
- Learning timeless best practices for running a business (and the learning there never ends).
- Keeping up with industry trends and innovations to take things further.
There was a point in the past where you could essentially just keep things steady, but the time for that is gone and constant learning is likely to be one of your best friends.
This is Austin Grigg working to make things appear effortless.
This is Adam Walker and Jeff Hilimire putting out a new podcast about reading and learning.
This is Jason Blumer always learning and sharing, like his recent symposium on accounting trends and challenges.
The list could go on, but it seems that the people who focus on learning tend to be the ones worth following, and the ones worth following tend to see the most success.
In the popular book “The E-Myth Revisited“, author Michael Gerber says:
“Contrary to popular belief, my experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren’t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.“
There are certainly successful people on both sides of the idea of the “insatiable need to know more”, but it seems that diving in will make your odds of success a whole lot higher.
