Learning is THE KEY to Achieving Success
The other day, I walked in on the last few minutes of the MTV documentary series True Life: I’m Dead Broke which had the attention of my children who range in age from 13-20. I plopped down and they brought me up to speed on the backgrounds of the three participants. I noticed on thing they ALL had in common… they hadn’t finished high school. They either didn’t know or didn’t want to know how to LEARN.
That’s a huge theme in my house as I raise three children…. you’d better KNOW how to LEARN. What’s most important is not that you know it now…but rather you’d better be equipped to LEARN what you need to know. As Alex Ragone says in his Learning Blog
“You can’t keep up with all of the information, so don’t try.”
While you can’t keep up with the explosion of easily accessible information available today, I can’t think of a more important skill in business than the ability to learn. Learning is not something that ends with a diploma or a degree.
The Experiential Learning blog says:
The traditional boundaries of education are beginning to break down. … Education is shifting from a period of formality to informality. Even more than ever before we will see students experiencing the material instead of memorizing it, then sharing their knowledge with their peers instead of handing in the exam to be marked.
John Hoff talks about learning in business in his post, The Dumbest Thing I’ve Ever Heard - You Never Learn From Your Successes
According to John… the lessons learned from failure are not better than the lessons learned from success. As a matter of fact, John believes the reverse is true.
Vince Lombardi is reported to have said,
“Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.”
If Vince is right, then it definitely makes sense that the BEST lessons learned in business would be the lessons learned from success!
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