Learning Is Fun — A Restart at 25

It is never too late to learn — our youngest executive is the proof. A teenager who never studied joined us at twenty-five and discovered, for the first time, that "learning is fun." A man who knew nothing of cosmetics absorbed formulation, raw materials, law, cost, and how to raise people. What changed him?

Not textbooks or training programs. In his own words: "I wanted to answer his earnestness; I wanted to follow this person — that single wish." People begin to learn not when told to, but when someone appears whom they want to answer. Many who hated studying may simply have lacked that someone.

Give a person purpose and someone to answer, and at any age they absorb at frightening speed — from nothing at twenty-five to executive officer at thirty-one. Relearning requires not texts but encounters.

What do you work for?