What if you are too busy to learn?

What if you are too busy to learn?

Stephen Fry (Author and Broadcaster) gives expert video advice on: How big is your brain? and more...

If you're busy, you can do a lot more things than if you aren't busy. "If you want something done, ask a busy man," as they say. And so the idea that, "Oh, I haven't got time to learn Russian," or, "I haven't got time to understand Wagner," or, "I haven't got time to know more about Renaissance painting," or, "I haven't got time to get interested in the Greek and Roman civilization," or, "I haven't got time to learn how to do collages," or whatever it is. You know, I mean, all of the millions of things that some of us might want to learn more about. The idea that there isn't time is just wash, I'm afraid. And it's very convenient to say it, and people say, "Well, you haven't seen my life. Frankly, I get home and there's this and there's that," and you say, "well, yeah, but if you want to do it, you'll do it". You will get anything done. But it has to be there. So, will, appetite, curiosity. Those are the things that drive learning, the real learning, the learning that connects things, rather than the learning of facts.