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     For the most part, I think lifelong learning will come naturally for me. A few years ago, I worked with a man that said when we stop learning we stop living. Before that moment, I thought  I wanted to teach, but, after he said that, I knew it was what I wanted to do.

     The habit that would come easiest to me would be seeing problems as challenges. I have never been the type to shy away from a challenge. In fact, that's how I got myself to quit smoking. When people look at things like problems, they seem insurmountable. But, when faced with a challenge, people take it as an attack and like to lash out and fight back. It's human nature. Much like Kennedy said, “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

     The hardest habit for me to pick up, I think, would be playing. When I was 18, I moved out on my own, and, my idea of play changed to something that many others don't typically enjoy. So, it's hard, sometimes, to fully enjoy myself when no one else is able or willing to do what anyone else thinks would be fun at the time. Also, my son wants to play sometimes, but, it's hard to find the time to play with him, or, I find myself bored with playing with toys, so, it often ends more abruptly than what it probably should. Perhaps looking at finding time to play as a challenge will help me. 

     In conclusion, I think that lifelong learning will come fairly easy to me as long as I keep an open mind about life in general and remember that just because something is new doesn't mean it's bad. Even if it seems scary at first, it's nothing more that a challenge to be overcome.