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I love the learning process, it keeps my old brain active.
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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The painful thing. But what I find even more rewarding is when I can identify correctly where the receptors detecting that pain are exactly located.
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The learning itself is something I cared about when I was young. Knowledge was fine even if I didn't use it for anything.
Now I have a sufficient supply of knowledge without any known application area. I care about getting real problems solved. If I can solve the problems without "learning" something, that is fine.
If I need to "learn" some skill to solve the problem, the important thing is that it solves the problem. Sometimes it goes like "learn - solve - forget". In several areas I know that twenty or thirty years ago, I knew how to do certain things, such as differential equations. For thirty years, I haven't come across a single problem that required me to solve differential equations, so I forgot how to. Without feeling sorry about it.
Solving real problems is much more rewarding, even if it doesn't require you to learn a new skill, than spending most of your energy on piling up "skills" and "knowledge" inside your brain, just for the sake of having a bigger pile than your colleagues or buddies.
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I am old enough that old things become new things.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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theoldfool wrote: I am old enough that old things become new things.
And they have to be learned all over again! 
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
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I enjoy learning because of all those reasons! Except for the painful one. Even though it is painful to learn something complicated sometimes, it becomes less painful eventually, which is an even bigger adrenaline rush!
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I live to "beat the system" whatever that may be.
modified 12-Nov-18 12:35pm.
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I just like to learn things -- checking that I'm not a cat
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That is exactly my reason as well. Sure the other's are nice but in the end it is just because I like to learn!
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You've got "I find learning new things painful" but are missing "I enjoy the pain of learning new things." 
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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That's "Other". Don't forget that (most of) Code Project is supposed to be KSS. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Is there any other reason?
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How about the joys of learning new things?
Not everything has to be about money (although it's certainly nice and helps in picking what to learn).
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Money is a tool for me to learn new things...
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
- Carl Sagan
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Sounds rather sad - apparently you have to work for a living.
For others - it is an art - their employer? Really just their patron - although they may not know it. But if they did, they should give a little dance of joy at their good fortune. They're paying for art and it will show.
And then there are those who hire workers. For the money. They get workers.
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Yepp. Gold and real estate 
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Greetings from Germany
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If I ever have enough of it to retire... or pay off student loans... then maybe I'll find other reasons. Not yet.
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