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Purpose of Learn This
I created Learn This to help others learn and improve their lives. I want to share my own ideas as well as to give back to others since I’ve learned so much that way myself. Learning things about life, career, leadership, and relationships are very important to me for home, business and the spiritual world. Most of those things I learned or started to learn from someone else and this site allows me to provide that same unique place that I can share, teach and give back again to others.
I’m a HUGE (and I really mean HUGE) proponent of self learning, continuous personal development and continuous learning throughout life. I know that learning stimulates your mind, keeps a person healthy and can add a lot of joy to one’s life by exploring areas of interest and keeping the brain continuously stimulated and strengthening its memory. My goal for this site is to deliver valuable articles that have some meaning to people and not just a bunch of useless or news related daily tidbits. I truly hope you enjoy and can learn from the articles here on Learn This .
About Mike King 
As you may already know from some articles, I’m a mountain unicyclist ! Shocking, I know. I learned to ride when I was 11 years old and just got more and more into offroad riding over the years. I started a club to meet other unicyclists in Calgary called, “The Calgary Mountain Unipsychos ” and still regularly ride within the city and in the great Canadian Rockies. I’ve got many other sports interests, preferably including water. I love learning and am constantly consuming my time reading and learning about the things I have interest in.
By day, like most people in life, I too work for a living. I’m an electrical engineer working in Calgary, AB in the Oil and Gas industry for Advanced Measurements . We build mobile service control systems and information systems to manage data between the field and office. I’m the product development manager and have been working there since 2000. I spend a lot of time honing my management skills and love working to improve performance of my teams. I’ve shifted more and more from technical work to people management and I truly enjoy it more! Its a great service to others (and the company) when I can also make a lasting difference to people’s live’s as a manager. That’s my goal at least, anyway.
By night, I’m a part time freelance 3D animation artist (operating Ethereal 3D ). I use Luxology’s modo 302 for almost all my graphics work now. All my other time goes towards all the other wonderful things in my life, my beautiful wife, friends and family, God, reading, hobbies, sports and pets.
I strive to lead a service oriented life which God has taught me to do by focusing my work and relationships on others. This type of service has provided me with closer friends, much more joy and a passion to live my life with meaning and purpose. I regularly attend the community church, Oak Park Church of Christ . Its a fantastic church, extremely welcoming and very thought provoking.
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March 13th, 2008 at 4:33 PM
Mike, your chopping block metaphor on Slacker Manager was the grand prize winner. One whole Loonie. Please send me your address…send it to dzinger@shaw.ca I will also include a little something extra.
David Zinger
April 4th, 2008 at 12:26 AM
Hi Mike! I just friended you on Digg. I was just riding my bike to work the other day for the 1st time in a long time. As I rode, I thought about you and how free you must feel on your bike with one wheel. At 33 years old and father of 2 – I *LOVE* riding hands free on my bike!
April 5th, 2008 at 7:30 AM
thanks blogrdoc! Yes, that is why I love mountain unicycling so much. Its just you pedaling along in the wild, hands and chest and arms open and free to take on anything that comes in your way! Its the same difference you feel between a car and a motorcycling. Its just more open and “in” the environment.
July 13th, 2008 at 12:54 PM
The days in Canada must be more than 24 hrs!! Do enjoy ur site!!
January 17th, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Your contact box is great Mike, how did you make it?
January 17th, 2009 at 10:43 PM
The contact form is done by a plugin for wordpress named, cforms II.
It is simple to use and setup and does everything for you.
January 29th, 2009 at 12:52 PM
Enjoyed the read! Have bookmarked your site and plan to check back often!
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Mike – tried to contact you through the form above, but no such luck. Do you have an email I can send to? Keep up the great work!
April 2nd, 2009 at 11:33 AM
@Steve, You have to spell the number in the contact form. Instead of 5 it needs to be five. Took me a couple of times to figure it out.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:30 AM
This is a great idea for a site! I too am a proponent of self-learning and continuous learning. Believe we are all a work in progress. Thank you for putting out something positive into this world.
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Excellent blog, I’ll be coming back to visit more often now. Keep up the great work.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:48 AM
Dear Mike King
all your posts share the wisdom and radiates the desire to help people to avoid the traps of the ignorance. I would name LearnThis the road stick for each who wants to be successful. Thank you for your sharing, for the valuable indeed articles. The hot ‘Thank You!’ comes out of my lips each time I come to your site (daily)
Now I want to share with you what was learned by me:
What was grasped by us puts the wings of the gratitude on us and raise us high above the daily problems IF we share the received knowledge with all on our road, yet that enlightenment can become the hardest burden in case we would hold him just for ourselves (in case we would remain silent)
consequently, I am glad to welcome you to my blog (to all my blogs/my online art galleries) I know you will have a good time with my pictures too, and your comments on my posts will make my silent reading the refreshing chatter of the fellows.
It would be fine to seal our meeting with the exchange of the links.
So let Word of Mouth bloom everywhere around us.
Thank you
July 20th, 2009 at 1:38 PM
Excellent site,Thanks for this great post – I will be sure to check out your blog more often.Just subscriped to your RSS feed….
February 17th, 2010 at 9:23 AM
Mike, am excited to connect with you on this site. My stumbleupon profile states we have 78% in common
Sounds like a good match to me!