Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor. I'm the founder of Lead Above Noise, a firm

specializing in retaining, engaging, and developing talent. And today, we're going to talk about a

concept called Lifelong Learning. It's kind of a buzzy phrase that's making the rounds at work.

But what it is, how it differs from regular world learning,

and how we do it well, these are the questions. So let's do some answers. The mental highlight

reel of my college years is pretty chock full of some amazing stuff. There's lifelong friends,

there's acapella performances, and yes, my nickname was

snappy, and there's a semester abroad. But you know what does not make that real? That would be the

freshman-level statistics class I had to take, because stats and I do not see eye-to-eye,

but that is totally okay, because I'm not a capital R researcher.

But while I do steer clear of spreadsheets and datasets, there's a lot that I can and

regularly do with a pen and the back of a napkin. My business affords me the privilege of working

with a pretty wide variety of leaders. I play in different industries.

I work with different functions and levels. And I have made some very statistically not

valid observations that I will stand by until the end. And one of them is this. My clients who

truly embody lifelong learning are the leaders with the strongest performance,

hands down. They get the best results. They have the strongest followership. And they are the ones

who win at innovation and employee experience and customer delight. If you haven't heard the phrase

lifelong learning yet, you will soon. It's become one of those buzzy phrases that so many of us

have already kind of started to tune out. But today, I'd love to make the case for why it matters,

like for real, and how you can commit to your own lifelong learning journey. Let's start with

what lifelong learning actually is. So for me, learning is a thing that you do

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