What Would You Like to Learn Next?
An LCA Reflection on Learning, Curiosity & Growth
t LCA, we believe there is something beautiful about continuing to learn.
Learning can open doors. It can help us in our work, create new opportunities and take us in directions we had not considered before.
But learning can give us so much more than that.
It can help us understand. And it can help us grow.
We can learn more about ourselves, other people and the world around us.
We can learn how to communicate more clearly. How to market a business. How to cook a meal we love.
How to dance. How to manage money. How to speak another language. How to use a new piece of technology.
How to do something with our hands that we have never done before.
Some learning gives us new knowledge.
Some learning gives us new skills.
And some gives us both.
Curiosity can take us anywhere
Not everything we learn needs to lead to a new job, a diploma or something we can add to our CV.
Sometimes, curiosity is reason enough.
We are allowed to be interested in something simply because it catches our attention.
Because we want to understand it better. Because it brings us joy.
Because there is something in us that wants to know more.
We do not always have to ask:
“What will I do with this?”
Some things do not need to become useful, productive or profitable to be worth learning.
They can expand our world. Introduce us to new ideas and perspectives. Awaken interests we did not know we had.
Curiosity gets to have a place in our lives too.
Learning can change how we see
Sometimes learning gives words to something we have experienced but never knew how to explain.
Sometimes a new idea changes the way we see something we thought we understood.
Sometimes learning about our history or culture helps us understand more about where we come from.
And sometimes learning a new skill shows us something about ourselves.
We discover that we are more creative than we thought.
That we enjoy something we never expected to enjoy.
That we can do things that once felt intimidating.
That we need a different way of learning than the one we were taught.
The thing we set out to learn is not always the only thing we discover along the way.
When learning feels difficult
Wanting to learn something does not mean learning will always feel easy.
We can care about finishing our studies and still procrastinate.
We can want to learn to dance and feel uncomfortable being a beginner.
We can start a course excited and lose our rhythm along the way.
We can want to develop a skill and become frustrated when progress takes longer than we hoped.
Those moments can quickly become places where we judge ourselves.
“Why can't I just do it?”
At LCA, we would rather meet that moment with curiosity.
“What is making this difficult?”
“Do I need more structure?”
“More support?”
“More time to practise?”
“A smaller next step?”
“Is the way I am trying to learn actually working for me?”
Because learning something new also gives us an opportunity to learn how we learn.
We get to keep learning
Learning does not have to end when school ends. There are still things we do not know.
Things we do not know how to do. Books we have not read. Skills we have not developed.
Questions we have not thought to ask. And parts of ourselves and the world around us that we still get to understand more deeply.
We do not need to know everything. We do not need to be good at everything. We just get to keep discovering.
So follow the thing that makes you curious.
Read the book. Take the class. Ask the question. Try the recipe.
Learn the dance. Practise the skill. Return to something you once wanted to finish.
Not everything we learn has to become an achievement.
Some things are worth learning because they make life more interesting, help us grow, bring us joy or make our inner and outer worlds a little richer.
And sometimes, that is more than enough.
What would you like to learn next?
