Research is the driver behind learning about any new topic. When you don’t know anything, you have to go out and find the information on your own. It’s an adventure you take to discover something new.
It’s a powerful process once you get into it for something that you choose to do it for. Everyone researches for their job or for school, but it seems rare that people sit down on a regular basis and teach themselves something brand new and completely outside of anything they ever thought to learn about.
We’ve been in the process of researching the House of Representatives (specifically Speakers of the House) and it seems that we’re constantly in a state of amazement. Learning about the issues the first congresses had to face, historical impacts on elections, trends in the number of bills submitted, that Sam Rayburn ruled the House of Representatives for 20 years (under FDR, Truman, Eisenhower AND Kennedy).
Sometimes the details of life can begin to drag things down. Go out and learn about something new and suddenly whole new avenues of what’s possible in life open up to you. Just pick a topic and spend an hour a day for three weeks on it. You’ll be surprised about how much you learn (and most of it won’t be what you expect).
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