Lessons are not limited to our academic studies. We are learning from life constantly, as long as we recognise and accept those lessons.
課堂并不局限于校園學習。只要我們留意并吸收，總能不斷從生活課堂中學到東西。
Learning shouldn’t stop once you graduate from school. Graduating from college doesn’t mean you can no longer be a student. Life offers more lessons than school ever could. As an individual, you must constantly seek for more ways to grow. To be stagnant should never be an option for someone who has so much potential. There are always new things to learn and adventures left to be discovered.
畢業后不該停止學習。大學畢業并不意味著你不再是學生。生活的課堂要遠比學校課堂豐富得多。作為獨立個體，你必須不斷想方設法尋求成長。停滯不前絕不是擁有無限潛能的人該走的路。生活中，可學習的新技能很多，有待探求的冒險也很多。
When you choose to be a student of life, you open yourself to limitless opportunities.
當你選擇做生活的學徒時，你便給自己創造了無限機遇。
1. Explore the world
探索世界
Don’t limit yourself to your hometown or to the city you got your first job. Go beyond the place you consider home, because home can be many places. It doesn’t have to be just one town or one apartment complex. Backpacking may not be for everyone, but it’s not the only way you can see the world. Travelling doesn’t just have to be going overseas but also dropping by many states. Culture exists not just in a country but even in small communities.
不要把自己困在家鄉或第一次工作的城市。跨越那個你視為家的地方，因為家無處不在。家不只是一個鎮子或一幢公寓。背包游或許并不適合所有人，但它也不是你看世界的唯一方式呵。旅行并一定非得周游海外，在國內體驗也行。文化不只存在于某個國度，也存在于小小的社區之中。
2. Acquire new life skills
掌握新的生活技能
Maybe it’s time that you finally learn how to fix a broken faucet or even fix the faulty light in your bathroom. You can finally cross out your bucket list items that have been there forever. Learn how to drive a car or ride a bike. There are definitely things you don’t know how to do, and you have a lifetime ahead of you to learn. It’s never too late to start learning something new.
或許現在你該學會怎么修理壞掉的水龍頭或者是浴室的壞燈泡了。你可以完成清單上存在已久的任務。學會騎自行車或開車。肯定有很多事情是你不知道的，而你可以用一輩子去琢磨。任何時候學習新事物都不晚。
3. Widen your circle
擴大交際圈子
For some individuals, to grow older means to keep your circle of friends down to a few, but that shouldn’t stop you from meeting new people. Widen your circle by allowing people into your life and letting them get to know you. When you meet so many people and try to learn about them, you don’t merely understand the person but their circumstances as well. Widening your circle to people from all walks of life gives you a bigger and better perspective of the world. It doesn’t mean you have to treat every stranger as a potential friend, but there’s nothing wrong with that, too.
對有些人而言，越長大至交就越少，但你不必因此而停止認識新朋友。接納他人進入你的生活，讓他們了解你，從而擴大交際圈子。當你認識和了解的人越多，你對他們本人以及他們的背景也就知道得越多。結交各行各業朋友能開闊你的眼界。當然，這不是要求你把每個陌生人都當作潛在朋友，不過這么做也無可厚非。
4. Support a cause
支持一項事業
Why not try to turn your passion for animals into a good cause? Learning more about animal welfare can tell you which cosmetic brands support testing on animals. Making your love for books into an advocacy can tell you that many areas lack a library and they need your support. You don’t have to force yourself to support something you don’t believe in. You only need to look at your interests and see which ones need you take some drastic actions.
為什么不把你對動物的喜愛發展成一項事業呢？了解動物福利能讓你知道什么化妝品牌支持動物試驗。將你對書籍的熱愛加以推廣，你會知道很多地方沒有圖書館，而你恰好能幫得上忙。你不一定要強迫自己支持自己不相信的事情，而只需關注自己感興趣的，然后看看哪些需要你大力投入。
5 .Take risks
承擔風險
The first step to learning is accepting that you’re prone to make mistakes. Once you’ve accepted that, you’ll have an easier time taking in things and risking everything in favor of your passion. Keeping your 9-to-5 job may keep you secure, but if you’re bored and no longer happy, is it really happy? Submitting an article to your favorite publication in the world may mean rejection, but it can also mean getting published! Stop hesitating because that’s no way to live.
學習的第一步就是承認自己將會犯錯。一旦接受這點，你會更容易趁著熱情接受并嘗試一切。保住朝九晚五的工作或許能給你安全感，但如果你厭倦了、不再開心了，又有什么意思？向你最喜歡的世界刊物投稿，或許會被退稿，但說不定也會被刊登出來呢！別再猶豫了，因為生活不等人。
