For a variety of reasons; to relax, for knowledge, to keep up with current happenings, help develop the ability to process information, the ability to understand complex ideas, to understand the human mind and society.

Learning to learn is an important skill in life. Learning is incorporated into memory either as long term or short term memory. The break-up of what we learn is in the categories of processing the yield into an answer to WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, HOW and WHY