Lifelong learning - The best gift for 2022
2021 is coming to an end, so how was your year? Was it a fulfilling and exciting year? Or just full of the usual ups and downs? Whatever your year was like, 2022 is now fast approaching, so perhaps it’s time to thank yourself for all the hard work you’ve done in these past 12 months.
One way, is to reward yourself with greater knowledge, new skills, and enhanced understanding. These are timeless advantages and will make every year to come a better year. In fact, investing in yourself is possibly the best gift you could ever give yourself.
Get out of your comfort zone and develop new skills
The rapid development of technology has brought enormous changes to our lives. And now is the perfect time to get into innovative new fields such as Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, Blockchain and Information Security. Skills in these areas can add value to your life and increase your opportunities for career advancement. Or, you could step even further out of your comfort zone and seize the opportunity to switch to the information technology (IT) sector and increase your job opportunities.
Organise your finances and add value to yourself
With a new year just around the corner, maybe it’s also a good time to organise your finances and establish an investment plan for yourself. Understanding investment management and learning about emerging investment opportunities such as green finance, or even learning about overseas tax systems like those in Australia and the United Kingdom can all offer the potential to get into foreign investing and develop your own financial freedom over time.
Life satisfaction does not come from work alone
Of course our work can, and should, be satisfying, but we can also develop the happiness that smaller things in life can bring. For example, learning a new language like Japanese, improving your English, or getting to grips with Putonghua can be enormously satisfying and give you insights into other cultures that can enrich your life. Even learning to appreciate different types of tea like Kung Fu and Pu'er, or mastering Xuan Kong Fengshui can improve both your physical and mental health.
As your lifelong learning partner, HKU SPACE has the largest and broadest selection of over 2,000 reimbursable Continuing Education Fund (CEF) courses in Hong Kong. These cover more than 61 different areas of interest from business and the humanities to technology and health sciences. Our new Spring prospectus is now out with all the details of every course. You can download a digital version here, or visit any of our learning centres to get a free printed copy.
Make this year and all those to come great ones for you with lifelong learning.
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