We live in times where almost all of our activities are constantly being evaluated. Did we do it well or poorly? Which goals have we achieved and which not. With the children it is the grades, with sales representatives the revenue, with diets the calories and with jogging the number of kilometres. Our attention is focused on the result - achieved or not achieved.
 
However how can we improve ourselves? Improvement means to know more, better understand, and find new possibilities...this process is called learning! The question is only how one learns properly? In our school days, we have all studied hectically for a test; then did o.k. on the test and a short while later had no memory of what we just learned ... we just memorized but did not really understand nor archive the knowledge in our brain. What was the motivator for this type of learning? The pressure to perform well.
 
True learning takes place when we can ask ourselves questions (and there are no dumb questions!) and then observe how or what brings us to the answer without placing a value on the outcome. For example: "during which part of the sales pitch did I loose contact with the customer?" or "which inner voice is speaking when I am sabotaging myself?" Of course we can influence our success by doing more of what works well, however if one continually develops oneself through learning, new doors will open to a whole new level of success and master ship! If you would like to learn more in this direction, you can sign up for the Back to Basics Workshop and lear a lot more tools and insights! I wish you a week with "great learning"!

Quotes

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Albert Einstein

In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffer

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

John Dewey

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

Patricia Neal