Have faith in your ability and
no one is ever too old to learn new skills
if the desire to learn is still alive
Suzanne Vickery
This is the last line in Monday’s post with Suzanne of Global Housesitters. She was speaking about being willing to try a new career in midlife or beyond.
None of us is ever too old to learn something new. There are numerous stories of older people graduating college including this one of 99-year-old Doreetha Daniels.
My father continued to educate himself throughout his entire life. When he wanted to build my Mother a house, he first went to school and learned how to draft up the plans. He learned how to build each stage as he went along. In his 30’s he went back to school to become a chef, graduating from the Culinary Institute of America while it was in New Haven, CT, before the school moved to Hyde Park, NY in 1972. In the 1990’s, when he was in his 70’s, he started taking computer classes. He was curious how they worked and wanted to know why everyone was using them.
That is what having the desire to learn is all about. Continuing to learn, no matter want your age. Being willing to try something new. And you must first have the desire and have faith in your ability.
Love this, I myself am a subscriber to learning something new everyday. No matter how little or big, keeping your mind working is essential.
Exactly. Learning new things is so important.
One of my favorite songs has a line that I love…”raise up to your abilities”. Not rise, but raise yourself. This post reminded me of it. <3
I love that.
I couldn’t agree more. But we are a minority in the US it seems.
I don’t think we are the minority in feeling this way. I just think we just hear too much about people who don’t want to learn new things or new ways.
Your father sounds like someone I would have like to have known. Very inspirational!
Thanks. My father was someone that was well liked by everyone who met him. 18 years later, I still miss him, especially when I want to know how to fix something. He was a great teacher when it came to that.