I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
You cannot open a book without learning something.
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that you're in control of your life. If you don't life controls you.
In Britain you do your job. When you do an American TV show there is a sense of being one with the crew and there is a leadership element which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain you just do it leave and say 'Thanks.'
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children before they are aware of their own self-importance learn so easily.
I think Lenat is headed in the right direction but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that because useful knowledge should be remembered any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.