Learning about learning

Reflecting on the 7 1/2 habits. Thing 4.
"Accept responsibility for your own learning" is already gospel for me. I've taken inspiration from a 2003 LJ article by Roy Tennant. In particular: "Learn as you breathe...We are born to learn, but somewhere along the way many of us pick up the idea that we must be taught in order to learn. We think that if someone doesn't stand up in front of us and talk to us with either a chalkboard or PowerPoint slides, we cannot learn. We must regain our sense of wonder and our desire to learn." Which brings me to the hardest habit: # 7 1/2 Play. Now I have noooo problem whatsoever playing. My problem is that I am a tangential thinker, and can easily be distracted. I even interrupt myself! So while I play, I have to follow the advice of habit 1, and keep the end in mind. Otherwise, I will have a beach full of partially built sandcastles.