Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks

To learn new things is to empty one's cup. Learning is perpetual, it sees no age limit. They say: "You cannot teach an old dog new tricks". I say: The trainer stopped learning, that's why he didn't discover ways to teach the old dog new tricks. We've been "TRICKED" to believing this adage that we stopped learning and discovering. Here's better way to put it: "You can always teach an old dog new tricks, you just have to learn how."

As we mature, we often get wisdom from the "age old sayings" to guide us.  But most of these sayings have put a limit to our lives and we unknowingly live by them and end up miserable and discontented with our lives.  Take for instance the saying "You cannot teach an old dog new tricks", this popular saying puts a limit to our beautiful minds.  Life is a world of discoveries, had Thomas Edison stopped trying, we wouldn't have light bulbs.  Had Alexander Graham Bell stopped attempting what others thought was impossible, we wouldn't have communications.  The list goes on and on.

Effective today, let your minds create new things, forget about what other people are saying, learning is ageless, there is not one person in the world who knows everything because everyday, we learn a new thing, we discover new species, new life, until our lives are taken away from us, we cannot stop learning.  To fight Alzheimer's disease is to keep our minds activated and motivated to create, innovate and make our lives more exciting.

There is no limit to education, ignorance is a lazy excuse for not wanting to learn more.  And once you learn, share your knowledge and push people to create and discover new things from what you have learned and share it again so that innovation will become an infinite source of motivation for us to improve the quality of our lives.