How to Keep Learning as an Adult: Build Your Own Curriculum & Become a Student Again

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Graduating from school doesn’t mean graduating from learning. As we continue our Back-to-School series, we’re exploring why learning should be a lifelong pursuit, and how to intentionally keep growing, experimenting, and following your curiosity well into adulthood.

Tune in for lessons on:
✅ How to build your own “adult curriculum” around what you actually want to learn
✅ Why being a beginner (and being bad at something again) is good for you
✅ The difference between learning for your career and learning purely for curiosity
✅ How adult classes, retreats, and conferences can expand the way you think
✅ Why it’s okay to quit something when it no longer serves you
✅ How we’re bringing continuous learning into our own lives

Whether you want to take an art history class, learn a new skill, revisit an old hobby, or explore something completely outside your comfort zone, consider this episode your reminder (and blueprint!) for becoming a lifelong student.

Timestamps:
00:00: Cold Open
01:55: You don’t need to be in school to be a student again
03:53: Learning for work vs learning for the sake of curiosity
06:08: Why learning through adulthood is good for brain health
07:38: Developing the skill of being a beginner again
10:24: Mini-exercise: build your own learning curriculum
11:23: Who, what, where, when and why (applied to learning)
12:12: Our upcoming wellness retreat (retreats for continued learning)
16:27: Why changing your environment helps you learn
18:53: Learning through classes and personal training
22:45: Cherie’s acting class journey
24:48: “Free-maxing” your education
27:14: Community college classes and student perks
29:30: Why we love conferences
31:45: What we learned at the Milken Global Conference
33:05: Being in the room when it happens (Rahm Emanuel’s debate)
36:14: Mini exercise: What would you learn just for fun?
39:24: Revisiting skills you used to be good at
42:35: How to become a lifelong student
43:15: Closing thoughts

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