Expand Your Knowledge

Nowadays, thanks to the internet, everyone can learn something new.

Listen to a podcast. Watch a TED video to understand a new concept. Read a book.

Push yourself mentally. And you will also get a wonderful sense of satisfaction from expanding your knowledge.

It's rarely worth it to condense your knowledge into a specialty.

You should be broad in your knowledge. Holmes says that you should have a clean "brain attic," but he's also a walking encyclopedia of knowledge. He reads incredibly broadly—he reads about art, music—things...

Love of knowledge and our willingness to learn new things appears to be constant across all ages.

People at very old ages are still willing to learn things, to discover new things, to read. The topics that you are curious about may change with age or with time or with wha...