[DanielStraight]

There's a difference though between taking opportunities to learn and going out of your way to learn something.

You don't mention anything about learning to speak Polish, though you certainly could learn if you wanted to.

I agree that you shouldn't pass up opportunities for learning, but you also can't learn everything. And there's opportunity cost involved in anything you decide to do with your time. For example, time spent dealing with dandelions could have been spent learning Polish if you had paid someone to take care of the dandelion problem.

I think almost anyone (myself most definitely included) can benefit from a renewed emphasis on learning, but you can't forget that while you can learn anything, you can't learn everything.

[Meiscooldude]

This is true, there always is an opportunity cost. But people have a lot more time in their day than they believe, and there definitely is time to go out of your way to learn something new.

I may not be trying to learn polish right now, but I am attempting to learn Italian. (Due to the fact that learning a language is no small undertaking, I'm attempting to learn using the "pimsleur approach")