What Can We Learn From the Prolific Isaac Asimov?

To learn is to broaden, to experience more, to snatch new aspects of life for yourself. To refuse to learn or to be relieved at not having to learn is to commit a form of suicide; in the long run, a more meaningful type of suicide than the mere ending of physical life. Knowledge is not only power; it is happiness, and being taught is the intellectual analog of being loved. Fans estimate that the erudite polymath Isaac Asimov authored nearly 500 full-length books during his life. Even if some that "don't count" are removed from the list -- anthologies he edited, short science books he wrote for young people and so on -- Asimov's output still reaches into the many hundreds of titles.