Why Not Start Your Research Today?

Is there some topic or subject that you've always wanted to learn? I bet there is and that is perfectly natural, humans are curious after all. Still, I guess I am wondering why you haven't started yet. Are you waiting for the funds and time to go back to college? That might be a while, I know in our local area the colleges and the Universities are cutting their budgets, cutting classes, and there are now waiting lists. Worse, they've raised tuition costs again, that's about 20% in the last three-years in fact. Tough breaks for anyone who is lifetime student committed to a lifetime of learning. But maybe there is another answer. Okay so let's talk.

Did you know there are many University and college courses online, Diaplex and you can subscribe to them for free? It's true. And even if you aren't very good at watching lectures and videos of professors talking about a given subject - you can always do self-study these days on the Internet. Just do what comes natural, go to Bing or Google and search the name of the subject, and spend 20 or 30 minutes with a pad of paper writing down all the subtopics of that subject. And then commit yourself each day to reading as much as you can online about each of the subtopics.

I guarantee you if you do this, by the end of the week, or month, you will know enough about that subject matter to place yourself in the top 25% of all the folks in that industry. And it's all for free, all that human knowledge is online, and isn't that what the Internet is for, to exchange human knowledge. The Internet after all is the greatest communication device ever created by mankind, why aren't you using it for its most valuable purpose.

Now then, I'm sure if you talk to a teenager, they will tell you the most valuable purpose of the Internet is social networking. But five years ago they wouldn't have said that, because there wasn't much social networking going on five years ago. Social media is one aspect of the Internet, that is to say bringing people together in a common cause, with hobbies or as virtual friends. But if you truly care about living a life of learning, and learning hundreds of new things per week, then maybe it's time you did your own online self-study program.

You don't necessarily need a professor for that, all you need to do is commit yourself to the process, and build yourself your own self-study program, and have it your way. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 24,500 articles by August 24th or 25th will be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off now..