Habits that help you study include time management, note talking, analysis and writing. These habits are useful, but you won't learn effectively unless you have the right attitude. Being open-minded is important, because learning something new often means challenging the ideas you already hold. Expecting to learn something that is both new and valuable will in fact help you to do so. For successful life-long learning you must take these study habits and attitudes with you, when you leave school to start on your adult lives. School is the ideal place to gain life-long learning skills, because you have support and resources, and you are young and naturally more open to learning. If you invest time in developing you study skills now, you'll be enjoying the rewards for the rest of your life. In school you also have the time to develop learning skills. Many adults are sadly too busy to develop learning skills once they start work