The Lectures

You're going to go through a lot of lectures in your life. The key is to listen. They're gonna be either super boring, or "aight", a few will be pretty interesting, but there's always something to learn from a lecture, even if you are the smartest person in the world on the topic being lectured by a "noob", someone who's just starting out in the area, always listen, you're sure to learn something.

If you didn't, you didn't listen well enough.

You could learn another persons perspective. You could learn something new about the individual you're speaking to. You could learn something more about the topic.

But even more importantly than what is you earn, is what you do with the knowledge you gained.

You realize someone is lacking in proper information based on the information they looked up?

Point them in the right direction, or even better, make your self the right direction. Start an information source for them and anyone else who wants to learn. You won't regret it and it'll be worth your while