You should keep learning as long as you are ignorant, – even to the end of your life, if there is anything in the proverb. And the proverb suits the present case as well as any: “As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”

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“How much progress shall I make?” you ask. Just as much as you try to make. Why do you wait? Wisdom comes haphazard to no man. Money will come of its own accord; titles will be given to you; influence and authority will perhaps be thrust upon you; but virtue will not fall upon you by chance. Neither is knowledge thereof to be won by light effort or small toil; but toiling is worth while when one is about to win all goods at a single stroke. For there is but a single good, – namely, that which is honourable; in all those other things of which the general opinion approves, you will find no truth or certainty.

– Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 76

If you focus on that single good (that which is honourable), everything else will sort itself out. You might not get rich. You may not become famous.

But, at the end of the day, when you look at your life, you will be able to say honestly, “I did the right thing as much as I possibly could”.

It might not seem like much but, in my opinion, it’s worth more than all those other things combined.