7 ½ Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners

For me, the easiest of the 7 1/2 habits is #2, accepting responsibility for my own learning. I've always taught myself how to do the things I want to learn, and my hobbies are generally just excuses to learn how to do something new. If someone else is teaching me how to do something (outside of work, of course), it's generally because I have taken something as far as I can on my own and that I trust them to point me in the right direction.

The hardest habit is viewing problems as challenges, not obstacles. If I'm really excited about the project I'll learn my way through a problem, but if I'm learning something because I was told to or asked to by someone else, problems can slow me down and frustrate me. I would really like to change this mindset - I should just accept that problems might slow me down or redirect the course, but that it's all in a day's work (or play!).