5 Benefits You Get from Constantly Learning Something New

Getting sent out of the country for a year-long deployment forced me to step out of my comfort zone and undergo a completely different lifestyle.

Sometimes the Army life is remarkably fast-paced. Other times, it’s slow, and you have a little more downtime.

I’ve used my free-time in many productive ways, as well as unproductive. Sometimes, I’ll play videogames, other times read and workout.

Throughout the past year away from home, I’ve found something new to learn, and each time, it’s been incredibly beneficial. Here are some ways that staying busy and continuously learning will serve you well.

1. Great Way to Pass Time

For the past five months, I’ve been writing and learning how to start a blog. Since the internet overseas isn’t as reliable as it would be back at home, I can’t work on my YouTube. Blogging has been an incredible form of generating content.

When the downtime increases and I start thinking about how badly I want to be home, I’ll blog. Since I’m no expert, I am always looking up new ways to market my writing, be inspired, and write more often.

2. Makes You More Fascinating

Whenever I pass my fellow soldiers in the area, at least one will ask me how my blogs are going and what the topic of the day is. Before my writing campaign, I didn’t have much about me that was incredibly impressive.

I was a creator at heart, and they knew that. Since I started sharing my links online — almost everyone knows how I spend my free time creating content.

Since I deployed, I’ve converted three of my buddies to become members on the platform.

3. You Will Find Fulfillment

Moments of fulfillment are as follows: delivering an excellent speech, performing a dance flawlessly, hitting a game-winning shot.

Every day can’t have something as magnificent as the accomplishments listed, but we can cultivate experiences that lead to that type of feeling.

When I learn something new, quiz myself, and prove that I understand it, the feeling is phenomenal.

If I go a day without reading something that inspired me, I feel uninspired and like its just another day of being alive. Learning something makes you want to share the idea with others and help them out.

4. You’ll Accumulate More Experience

Every single time I’ve tried something new, it’s led me to meet new people, discover new role models, and think differently.

By doing the same thing over and over again, without any nuance, life may begin to feel stale. When I was in high school, all I thought about was fast-forwarding through college and getting the engineering job that would earn me six-figures.

Life didn’t quite play out the way I thought. I’ve completed two years of college, and I am an Army Engineer. But I’ve discovered so many creative avenues.

I wouldn’t replace the way life has played out for me because by producing videos, being a photographer, and writing have opened up so many doors in my life.

My network of people at home knows of me as a creator. In the creative world, there’s always something to learn. The experience I have leading my side-hustle businesses back home makes for a quality resume.

Although you may not have a degree when applying for jobs, the lifelong learners will have twice as much to put down when the job-hunting time comes.

5. Find Your True Passion

When you take on the quest to learn a new skill, you find out what you like and what you dislike.

In my personal experience, I thought I wanted to be a mechanical engineer — until I took the math classes and realized how much I hated math.

By taking one sports-marketing class, I figured out that marketing was the field for me. Sports marketing taught me how to put together a print-ad, create a commercial, and pitch a shark-tank idea.

Not to say doing those things were easy, but genuinely wanting to learn how to do each of them is the ultimate unlock to finding your passion.

You’ll become a student of your skill, and it’ll feel effortless finding the motivation to do so.

Final Thought

Whether or not you’ve figured out where your real passion lies in life, learning will help you get to where you want to be.

I’m not saying you need to go to college to learn something because nowadays, that simply is not the case.

The internet is a wonderful outlet for self-teaching and finding quality resources. There’s information online for free that we can all use to our advantage.

If you’re willing to take the leap of faith and fail multiple times in something you’ve never done before — you’ll soon become the Jack of all trades and lead a happy life on your terms.