You are in control of whether you experience the same things that you've already experienced and whether or not you will gain anything beneficial.  Education is a kind of raising awareness that can result from where you focus attention.  You decide what you choose to remember and what you choose to forget.  You decide what perception you will engage or sharpen and what perception you will leave dormant or ignore.  Attention and retention begin and end with you.

Consider you have opportunities to learn every moment.  Where you focus your attention not only determines what you choose to experience, it begins to uncover what you choose to learn.  You can focus on the surface or linear thinking.  You can expand your understanding of time and space, move forward and backward, up and down, left and right, and in directions you hadn't anticipated.  You can even discover what it means to move circumferentially, moving aound the contours of your situations, perceptions and feelings to gain insight via the outside looking in.

Remind yourself that taking the same path at different times can teach you very different things.  You may send yourself hunches or follow intuition to retrace your steps because you seek to learn anew. Whether or not you realize it, you constantly move through time and space and interpret different layers of detail.  Since you mentally paint an understanding of your life, you can alter the image of yourself or your surroundings whever you desire to do so. 

The parts of yourself you will focus on most are those you wish to experience most deeply, to widen your attention span.  You ultimately teach yourself what kind of life you aim to lead. You may simply forget why you are alive and what you set out to do.  Life is not as you always picture it, but rather, a series of experiences you interpret at will.  Your energy and enthusiasm matter.