Feed Your Brain

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I’m sure most of you have heard of Coursera. Coursera is a site that offers thousands of free courses from learning institutes all over the world.  Some courses take weeks of learning while others can teach you everything in one day. It all depends on what course you pick. When the assessments are fulfilled you’ll receive a statement of accomplishment. It’s basically diploma each course that you so skillfully mastered.

In life we must never stop learning to keep our brains alive and growing. It’s why we go to school, to learn how to function as a person in society, to absorb knowledge, and to be educated on things we never knew. The more we know, the more information we have to do as we please. But why should learning stop at college or our last years of high school?

Here are the five essential courses you should take at Coursera.

5. A Course That Could Help Your Profession

Most people go to college to learn about what they want to do in life. Most people stop learning about their profession no sooner they graduate from college. But why stop no sooner they get that diploma? It’s always good to brush up on things they learned or things they never knew about your profession. That’s where Coursera comes in, to educate people more on what they thought they knew.

4. A Course About Something You Love

So you love UFOs and life among the stars. Coursera has a course for that. Or maybe you love the thrilling secrets of archaeology or the exhilarating scientific world or even the creative world of art. Coursera has courses for all of that and more.  So go ahead and pursue those courses about something you secretly adore or loudly proclaim your love for. Not only will you gain more knowledge about that thing, but you’ll probably love it even more.

3. A Random Course

Close your eyes. Click on a course. Follow through with it. That’s what I did last night and now I am enrolled in a course about space and Vikings. What do space and Vikings have in common? I have no idea, but it’s strange, new, and interesting. It’s the new experiences we endure in life (such as a random course) that help us learn about who we are, what we like, what we dislike, and why. It helps us know ourselves better and what we enjoy about life.

2. A Language Course

Apparently if you know a second language it will give you the upper hand when it comes to job hunting.  In America the top three languages are Spanish, French, and English. If you are bilingual, it’s considered a great asset to a job because it shows that you can communicate with diverse groups. This is extremely helpful and it’s one of the more important reasons to learn a language. Another reason to learn a language is because it opens you more not only to a different way of speaking, but also to another culture. Language is an essential part of a foreign culture and by learning it you are immersing yourself in that culture.

1. A Finance Course

Because unless your parents taught you, you taught yourself, or you went to school for it, personal finances are an essential part of life. Eventually you will be living on your own and have to financially plan everything from your groceries to your rent. You will also have to face the dreaded terror known as income taxes which are about as unpleasant as piles of rotting fish.

Having taken a few personal finance courses myself, I’ve never felt so comfortable with knowledge I’ve obtained. For the record, I’m terrible when it comes to math, but apparently I’m good with thinking ahead when it comes to my finances. Coursera helped me realize this and improved my knowledge on the matters of saving, mortgages, rent, and many other useful lessons I will need for my future.

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So tell me, what do you want to learn about?