 Hey, welcome back. Just a quick thought and it's from Prabhupāda's too. Prabhupāda's too about finding the knowledge of God and the fear of the Lord. The fear of the Lord leads to life. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The fear of the Lord keeps us in the path of life and so on. Prabhupāda's too was 1 to 5. This is what it says. My son, if you receive my words and treasure my commandments within you so that you incline your ear to wisdom and apply your heart to understanding. Yes, if you cry out for discernment and lift up your voice for understanding. If you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of the Lord. So we see that all these things hinges on one thing which is the Lord saying that the instruction is that if you receive the words of God and treasure his commandments. So not just about receiving but the nature and the way in which we receive and what we do. It's like treasuring the commands and which means you treasure value it so highly and treasure it in your heart with the intent to apply, with the intent to put it to practice, with the intent to either obey or do what it says. So it says that if you pursue, if you seek her as silver and search for her and says the whole thing comes to verse 5, you will understand and you will find. But this is something that is required of us, that we be intentional, that our heart's posture is this, that we will receive, that we will treasure, that with the intent to apply and incline our ear to wisdom. So let's have that within us even as we have access to God's word, we have access to the resources, we have the Spirit of God in dwelling us. So what is it that's stopping us? What is it that's hindering? Nothing really. So we don't have to be our own hindrance. We don't have to be our own barrier. We don't have to be our own ceiling to all these things. Let's pray. Father, we thank you Lord. We thank you that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge and understanding. And Lord, in the fear of the Lord, there is a path of life, the ways of God which lead to life God. We thank you, Master, that you have given me this accessible to us, Lord, possible for us to walk in, Lord. And we thank you that this should be God, for this exhortation, exhortation, Lord, that this should be the posture of our heart, that we will value, that we would treasure with an intent to incline our hearts and to apply, Lord, everything, O God, in our lives, Master. Your word, your instructions for their life, God. Yes, they are Spirit and their life. And Master, we pray that maybe God, let it not be a one-time thing, let it be a daily thing, Father God, that we would incline our years to your wisdom, that we would treasure your word in our hearts, that we would apply your instruction in all areas of our life, Lord. And yes, Master, we know that sometimes we don't see the manifestation of the fruit of it immediately, but we know that we are sowing to righteousness. We are sowing to the Spirit when we do that. And of the Spirit, we will reap eternal life. We thank you, Lord. We thank you. We give you all the praise, all the glory in Jesus' match, the name we pray. Amen. Okay. Just a quick clarification. I think, yeah, I think Georgia, Zalitoli and even someone else also asked, that they couldn't see them, that they didn't receive the marks after the submission of the quiz. Submit to the quiz, but the marks were not released. I don't know what it is about the setting, but I'm just trying to, you know, because the setting says the marks will be released immediately on submission. So I don't know what it is, but your marks are recorded. Okay, so that's for sure, so you don't have to worry about it. So once, you know, the marks are recorded, so that's the thing. So I'll just release that, you know, for the entire class. Okay. Let me just share this. So we've come to the final chapter, which is continuous learning. Okay, so, you know, traditionally, when we look at learning, we talk about formal education, we talk about schooling, you know, and typically every nation or, you know, every place has this system of learning. Okay, so there is this early education, then middle school, and, you know, higher learning, then you move into college and so on. And we call it like a formal education. And many times, you know, the mindset can be even as we go through school and college, oh, you finish it and we're done with, you know, thank God that I finished all this. Thank God I finished those exams, no more learning, no more exams, etc. And we come to that place, we're saying I don't have to learn anymore. What we actually mean is that I don't have to sit for exams, I don't have to, you know, sit for classes. I'm done with that phase of life. Okay, but the thing is, the reality is something else. Okay, that in an informal manner, in various settings or avenues, we are continuous learners, or we need to be continuous learners, whether it's knowledge, whether it's practical skill, right? It happens. It happens all the time. Like, I remember the first time I joined this first place of work. It was with a hospitality company, and I was in sales. Well, the learning was immense. The learning was using the phone, for example, you know, transferring calls when the phone lines come, the calls come in. The learning was about learning how to send the fax. You know, I think we don't have those anymore, but you know, we just scan it and email stuff, but then sending learning to send the fax using the fax machine, and things like that, you know, which was everyday learning, right? And also, it was an unlearning of certain things, right? So, learning happens on work, learning happens every day, but it is whether we want to learn or not, whether we want to have these skills or not, okay? Because if we have that understanding or the mindset that I'm done with learning, then we will be very indifferent to a learning experience. We will not have a learning or a growth mindset, right? So, which is very detrimental. So, we will, which means that we are not open. We are not, we look at it as something that is oppressive. We look at it something, something that's boring, something that we have done away with, and therefore we are not open to learning, okay? And the thing is this continuous learning, it can really enhance our understanding of how things work, understanding of the world, understanding of the environment, work environment, systems, and not only that, but constantly, you know, when we move from, when we learn, when we, you know, it is opening up opportunities for us, opening up opportunities. Or we place ourselves in a way, in a place where there are opportunities for us to use that learning, right? Which means it could be an opportunity in terms of a work, a job, where we can use this learning, right? Where we say, okay, I need people, we see, you know, we see maybe advertisements or companies saying that we need people with this skill, we need people with this, with this skill set, with this, you know, with this certification, and things like that. So, it really improves. So, when we take this up, take up all these opportunities, then it improves our quality of life and so on. So, if you want to categorize it broadly, for our personal development and for our professional development, right, and both are intertwined, in the sense when we develop ourselves personally, it influences or affects our professional side of things, right, work or ministry. And if we, you know, develop ourselves, you know, professionally or the ministry aspect of it, well, it is interconnected and it actually develops us personally as well, right? So, it enables our personal growth, right? So, we see that. So, some overflow of continuous learning or learning itself is that it boosts our confidence, right? Confidence because we understand things. It's not something that we're ignorant of. You know, when we're ignorant of something, we don't want to use, right? Maybe new technology, maybe new things. We, you know, we are ignorant of it and so we don't know, you know, we don't have the confidence to use these things, right? I remember the first time email was there, you know, those years where we had email, what do you call, Internet, you know, Pios or Internet parlors as they're called. And, like, for me it was like, you know, something new I didn't want to, I didn't know what to do and then finally, you know, mustered up enough courage and went and then created an email ID and all that, right? So, look back, it seems like, you know, so foolish, so funny at times but then the thing is, that is what it is. You know, if you don't know or if there's no learning or understanding about some concept, a technology, how to use, then we are very hesitant, right? We're fearful of it but then knowing it boosts our confidence, our self-esteem, everything, okay? It makes us less risk averse, adaptable to change, right? So, we don't, we, it's a, what do you call, learned decision, right? Knowledgeable decision and so the, the, the, we are, you know, we don't, we're not prone to, right? So, we avoid the mistakes and also when it comes to change, we are more adaptable to change in the way things are done. Maybe, you know, if things are done online, we are more adaptable to it. Okay, this is how it is done. There's no pen and paper, fine, no problem. We'll use it, you know, forms need to be filled, payments need to be made and, you know, there are several options but these are easier ones, quicker options and you're, you adapt to it because you've learned, you adapt to change, right? Okay, and the most satisfying personal life, yes, challenges are ideas and beliefs about something, it can be fun as well, okay? Right, okay. So, we'll be learning for personal development, okay? So, there may not be a specific reason for learning, okay? If you want to learn something for the sake of learning, you know, maybe you just say, okay, I want, I don't know this, therefore I want to learn. Okay, it could be a language, it could be any area of your life, you know, any area of, you know, that you want to grow in, develop in. So, there need not be a certain, a certain need or, you know, formal need but then you're saying, okay, this is the mindset that I have. There's something new, I don't know about it and let me learn, okay? It could be a new thing, you know, like maybe a painting, maybe a whatever, you know, it could be something creative, maybe a musical instrument, right, whatever. So, when we have that shift in thinking, it helps us, right? And people say that, well, medical faculty certainly says that it keeps our brain very young, you know, brain active because you're learning new things and it actually changes the, you know, the neural pathway in our brains and just, so it doesn't get bored, it can be, you know, fulfilling, your thinking is even sharper, your memory is there and so on. So, yeah, it helps in all these ways, okay? So, why do people learn for personal development, increase our knowledge skill, hobby, last time, you know, so it makes life a little more fuller and maybe some new skill, well, it helps us, it is to our advantage, maybe you learn to change the tire in a car and maybe you learn to, you know, fix certain things around the house. All this, you know, it just helps you, it helps achieve certain things, right, at maybe a lower cost, right. Every time you want to change a bulb, if you're going to call an electrician, it's an added cost, right, but then you know how to do it and you know, you learn how to do it, you learn the skills and acquire the tools to do it and it's, you know, there's a cutting down of cost and so on, right, okay? Okay. So, learning for professional development, okay, so that's another whole area is that you look at your profession, you look at, you know, you say profession, including the ministry area also. So, whatever that's going to actually enhance the work to be effective at work, at getting the job done, right, maybe in ministry, how do I use certain tools that are available online, right? How do I use, how do I learn to use the an Excel sheet? How do I learn to use a PowerPoint? How do I, you know, these are things that we can actually do intentionally. So, this actually professional development helps us in the work that we do. How can I be a better communicator? How can I be a better speaker? You know, all these things, right? Maybe we want to learn counseling skills, you know, you find yourself in your work with those kind of situations and challenges, right? So, how can I pick up those skills? Are there anything, you know, is there anything online, is there a course online that I can do to do that? So, we need to invest in that, right? Invest in that, invest time in it, invest some resources in it, invest towards, okay? So, some of these things are professional learnings. The organization will actually provide that opportunity, right? Maybe you're part of a part of an organization which says, okay, you have, you can do this on company time or you can do it on the time that the organization gives you, right? So, saying that, okay, in this in this calendar year, you can spend so many hours on learning something for your professional development. Yes, Paul, you have a question? Do you have a question or was that a mistake? I see your hand raised. Okay, you can go ahead and put it on the chat. I can't hear you. You can... No, it's just accidental. I don't have any question. Sorry. Okay, right, Paul, no problem. No problem at all. Okay, so, yeah, we were looking at, okay, that, right? So, some organizations do invest like in this way of saying, it could be a formal training or it could be, you know, you take time as an employee or as a person in this organization, you take time, you do it. So, if we make use of it, we do enhance our skills. Now, we enhance our skills. It means that it betters our, or it gets us to be better, be more productive, being effective, maybe in solving problems, in getting the work done, in maybe less time than before, like even better productivity, right? So, I just want to, you know, state that it's including ministry as well, right? So, ministry work, we know that it just doesn't stop with preaching teaching. There's a whole lot of other things as well, administratively what you look at, you know, in terms of finances and so on. So, for us to grow in these skills and knowledge help us to be effective, right? Okay. Now, let's say, you know, you're an organization and you seem to have reached a place, a certain place, a certain ceiling, and you seem to be stuck in that place, right? And you're frustrated, you know, it's a routine thing over and over again, right? I'm just doing year after year, month after month, you know, it's the same thing over and over again, and the answer to that, to come out of that rust, rut is learning. You know, continuous learning, which can really enhance the same work that we do, or it can actually expand our view of what else can I do? How else can I better this? How else can I contribute to the organization? Okay, so you see the advantages of continuous learning, to have the mindset of continuous learning, or what is also called as the growth mindset. You know, I want to grow. I don't want to be in the same place. I want to increase in my learning, in my knowledge base, and in my skill, right? Okay. Okay, learning also gives us options. There are options, options for betterment, options for new areas, options for new avenues for us to explore and get into, right? So it gives us options. And I know of people who, because of their wanting to learn or wanting to improve their learning, they actually got better opportunities, maybe in different organizations, got better opportunities to serve in the same organizations, right? So it gives us options. Learning always gives us options. So it's one thing to keep in mind. To destroy, you know, dismantle old mindset of, okay, I'm done with learning. I don't want to learn anymore, right? So we know that learning takes effort, yeah? It takes effort. It takes time. It takes resources. So this is an incentive for us to take that time to invest in resources and to put in that effort, right? So these are just incentives for us where we know that, okay, I don't want to have that old mindset anymore. Yes, it is to learn new things. And how are you going to feel, you know, when it's a new area, there will be some resistance in the sense, oh, I don't know this. I need to put in that effort. There has to be some work, mental work involved, right? So just because it's difficult, just because it's going to take some effort in order to learn, don't give up. Let's not give up. Okay. A few things here that it's never too late to start. It's never too late to start something new. It's never too late to learn something new. And I think the Internet, what I see around the Internet is a great tool. I see more and more people, especially people who are, you know, elderly senior citizens. And their life is really enriched because they are learning. Learning with the use of technology, they're learning. They have access to learning so many things. They have access to communicate so many things, right? So it's a wonderful thing. It's never too late to start doing something. Don't discount yourself because of, you know, your age, right? Don't discount yourself because of the season of life that you are in. Okay. So yeah, so we can do that. And also when it comes to being successful in work, to being successful in regard to our financial learning, learning helps, right? Maybe if you're in that kind of an environment, learning helps, okay? It involves stepping out of what is familiar. It involves stepping out of what is comfortable for us in order to learn new things, right? And it definitely positions us in a better place financially. Okay. Also, I think this is the last thing that we see that there is constant change that is happening. Okay, there is constant change that is happening and the need for adaptability to change. And the adaptability to change comes with learning. Okay. So and that learning sometimes or most times would have to be outside of our formal, what we can call as work hours or maybe ministry work hours, whatever. It's outside of that maybe because, you know, our work hours or eight or 10 hours in a day maybe will require full attention that we cannot really set aside time. Fine. So it's outside of those work hours, maybe over the weekend, maybe on a certain day of the week, we can set aside. So, you know, picking up these skills and picking up these learnings would mean that we need to do that. Okay. So that's what we have about, you know, continuous learning to have that shift in mindset, to have that growing or what do you call as a growth mindset, which will really help us. It's also one of the life skills. Maybe we didn't even think of it that way. Maybe we were resistant to learning new things, right? Because it means changing. It means being flexible. It means stretching, right? So, but with this, when we, when we look at it this way, it makes life so much more enriching, so much more enriching, right? So it is something for us to adapt or include in our lives. Okay. So with that, we come to the end of our life skills course. Any questions or anything that you may want to share based on what you've learned, maybe specific to continuous learning, sorry, Paul, I think he's like, he's raising his hands because of, I think it's a mistake. Yeah. Okay. I just want to thank for everything that you thought and I've learned so much from this and I have literally applied some things and seen especially about planning things. I remember the proximity things that you thought once. I have it in my laptop and that kind of helps me to organize, like to prioritize my looks, what to neglect and what to go ahead with. That's kind of a big help. And yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Good to hear that. Praise God. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah. Like sometimes we, you know, some of these things come naturally to some people, but not all. Right. So that's the thing. So it really stretches, expands our understanding and the scope of what we do. So that's a good thing. Yeah. Okay. Anyone else, anything that you might want to share or any questions at all? Okay. So yeah, if you have any questions, you can always post it on the stream, right? Till the end of the course, till the end of, you know, the course finishes. So I was trying to answer that. Otherwise, we will have another quiz at the end of, by the end of November, by the last week of November. And with that, we complete our assessment of the course and also the course also formally ends with that. Right. Okay. So the same goes for e-learning students. There will be one more quiz and of course you have time till the end of the course to answer that as also the first quiz. Right. Okay. Okay. So thank you. We'll stop here and hope to see you next semester also and maybe some other course. Yeah. Okay. God bless. Thank you. Bye-bye. Good job. See you. Bye-bye. Thank you, post. Thank you. It was lit.