Continuous learning only will help you grow
Only 20% of the people are successful, whereas another 20% of the people fail miserably. The other majority of 60% of the people end up getting marginal returns for the perceived consistent hard work.
What is the real reason behind the not-so-successful growth of the majority ?
The real reason is that these people, who were highly successful in their initial career due to their conscious learning efforts, do not put in enough efforts to learn and develop the changing skill requirements. Thus they end up slogging out for more time everyday, to get the same level of output they used to provide earlier.
And once their output level stops growing, the organization finds them not useful and is forced to reorganize their position / jobs.
Then what is the solution ?. The solution lies in the good practices of the highly successful 20% of the people. All that these people do is to keep their eyes and ears open always and they are always on the learning mode. By learning new things and the changing environment on a continuous basis, these people equip themselves with better skill sets on a regular basis.
That is what makes them deliver better output consistently even with changing demands. So if you want to be successful, just have an open mind and keep yourself to learn AND ADAPT on a regular basis.