Skill Mastery “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” —Gandhi “Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in ife is to keep your mind young.” —Henry Ford You can always learn something new. School is not the only place to pick up new skills, and being accomplished in one area doesn’t stop you from starting fresh in another. Education Pays Off “If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” —Benjamin Franklin “Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.” —Aristotle Get Simulated Experience “Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you’re too damned old to do anything about it.” —Jimmy Conners Using the Empowerment Game to simulate experiences can give you a head start in life. The education of youth is essential. Young people are ready to learn at their own pace and experience things now. “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” —Will Durant Prepare Yourself For The Coming Trials “Tomorrow’s battle is won in today’s practice.” —Samurai maxim “The more sweat in training, the less blood on the battlefield.” —General Patton Preparing yourself now to have the capabilities to help others could come in handy when you least expect it.
|  | Broaden Horizons “Every master was once a disaster.” —Harv Ekcart “The doors of wisdom are never shut.” —Benjamin Franklin, self-taught “In times of change, learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned are beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists... If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” —James Thurbur
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