How to Fall in Love With Learning So You Don’t Get Complacent

UPDATED: August 22, 2019
PUBLISHED: August 15, 2019
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How do we fall in love with learning so we don’t get complacent? The first thing is to look at is the opposite of falling in love with learning and that is, starting to drift back. The rule of nature says that we have two options: We can either move forward or we can move backward. If you don’t want to be moving backward, then you have to fall in love with getting new knowledge and constantly improving yourself. Otherwise, what are you here for? You have a lot to learn about being you and through every bit of learning that you do, you will open up more about what makes you happy and about how you’re going to achieve success.

Now, there’s a problem here and that is, we have access to so much knowledge, it’s like a fire hose. At the moment, we read over 100,000 words a day through street signs, blogs, magazines and more. So many people are trying to put their thought processes onto us, but the key is to get a single purpose and to focus on what you want to achieve with your life so that you can start to consume and filter all this information. This will open doors for you like nothing else and you’ll be consuming it in a unique way that brings your passion and your purpose to that article. Try that with the next thing you read.

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Richard Janes is an EmmyⓇ winning Personal Brand expert and the founder of Hollywood based digital agency Fanology. His unique approach to personal branding has launched, revived, and catapulted the careers of many actors, athletes, musicians, television hosts, business executives, and entrepreneurs. He takes a holistic view of personal branding, believing that a personal brand can only be successful if implemented through every aspect of a person’s life and that the key to a successful personal brand is its growth from an individual's unique life purpose.

In 2010, Richard became one of Hollywood’s go-to social media pioneers, working to develop online brands for hundreds of celebrities ranging from Larry King to young Disney stars, such as Ashley Tisdale. Through his strategy and insight, his clients have amassed considerable influence in their chosen fields using their unique gifts and abilities to increase personal wealth and live a more authentic life.

After a serious illness, forced was Richard to take stock of his own life. It was then he created a process called the Minimum Viable Person™, a system inspired by Silicon Valley’s minimum viable product. In adopting the MVP lifestyle, a person is able to define their life purpose, set a mission, take a series of low-risk, high-reward steps to implementing their purpose, and then quickly validate the results their new actions are having across all aspects of their life.

When Richard is not coaching his personal brand clients or speaking on stage, Richard is leading Fanology, a full-service digital agency he founded in 2010. With offices in Los Angeles, Dallas, San Francisco and Oklahoma City his award-winning team works with industry-leading brands such as Toyota, Lexus, Microsoft, LiveNation, P&G, and The Special Olympics, to identify their Superfans and help tell their stories, build brand loyalty, and attract more customers to cross over and become the enormously valuable Superfan.

In 2018 Richard and his wife relocated their family from the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles to experience the calmer life of Oklahoma living where they spend their time fishing, riding horses, and enjoying the weather. When not commuting between Fanology’s offices, traveling for speaking engagements, or visiting his personal brand clients, Richard sits on a number of boards and continues to flex his love of storytelling through various writing, directing, and acting projects.

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