Keep Learning [especially during this Pandemic]

 Keep Learning [especially during this Pandemic]

💎We have a HUGE problem and this could be fatal unless we correct this ASAP.  

Because of this pandemic, everything stops?

Because of this pandemic, everything stalls?

Because of this pandemic, everything grinds to a halt?

No se🅝or.  Only face-to-face interactions stop.

Have seen it.  Have heard it.  Have witnessed it as wel.  Life has to go on, so the past months and even upcoming months, some of my work colleagues either have tied the knot or tying soon.  And obviously travel stops but that's about it.

Problem is, there is a collateral damage.  Because of this pandemic, the drive for learning and that thirst for learning seems to have grinded to a halt.  Save for our student population who needs to go on with their online learning, the rest of us seemed to have set aside learning, all because of this pandemic.

And this becomes a huge missed opportunity if we missed just one too many learning opportunities [especially because of] this pandemic.  We got everything twisted with the wrong turns if we continue to make this pandemic as our reason [bluntly, i'll call it ALIBI and EXCUSE] for sacrificing our progressive learning.  And if we will sugar-coat our reasons by claiming that you got NO TIME for learning, that's baloney.

And what more if that learning opportunity is FREE?  But hey, as this poster screams and shouts, "FREE is not so FREE".  This is not akin to foodies delivered by GrabFood or FoodPanda at your doorstep.  You need to know what you don't know.  And from thereon, know what you need versus what is just nice to have.  Frankly, even if learning opportunities are all over your place, it takes a self-motivated soul to make his move.  No amount of automation will self-enroll you and virtually bring you inside the virtual classroom, NO WAY Jose.

Why did the Apple Logo end up that way?  Simply put, the late Steve Jobs wanted to drive the message that if and when there's an apple of an opportunity, grab it, bite it.

To walk the talk, within the comforts of my home, I've taken up courses from Harvard, UCB [University of California-Berkeley], IIMB [Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore].  And with no bragging rights, I'll humbly admit that I got a long queue of courses where I am enrolled throughout the next 12 months over to 2021 [and the best thing is that most of it is FREE].

Let's GO GO GO, learning is a lifelong process.⏳