Learning.

I love learning.  I've learned so much just by listening to other people.  Is all of it correct?  Probably not, but that's why I keep an open mind and keep on learning.

One of the clubs I worked at had male dancers and female customers, most of these guys were body builders/personal trainers/martial artists/military/dancers/entertainers.  We had a small gym in one of the dressing rooms (big club with three dressing rooms) where most of the employees and I would work out.  I learned a lot about nutrition from them (one was a personal trainer with a degree in nutrition and kinesiology), a lot about fitness and one very down to earth nugget of wisdom that has helped me so much in my battle with weight.

Because of my fascination with learning I've even studied learning to a degree.  People learn in different ways and sometimes even the people that learn the same way need a different approach to it.  As an example, tonight I was helping my eldest with some extra homework I had given them.  It was 30 questions of varying degrees of difficulty (all multiplication, ranging from 1x3 to 5x12, kid is in the 2nd grade) and the kid was having some issues with it.  I tried various methods of looking at the numbers (4x7 is really the same as 2x7+2x7) and various "tricks" (5 times anything is either going to end in 0 or 5).  It all started clicking after awhile and all of the problems were figured out correctly without my help.

I'm a firm believer in the day I stop learning is the day I die.  Now I'm learning about mortgages, still learning about writing and I'm even learning about police work just by asking my wife about her day.  Who knows what I will learn tomorrow.

The little nugget of wisdom about weight control?  How long did it take you to put on the weight?  Decades.  Then what makes you think you can lose it in a few months?