learning goals

What are your wildly important learning goals?

June 15, 2011

I’ve written about goals a number of times here on Mission to Learn, but primarily from the standpoint of setting them. This video from FranklinCovey is about executing them. (Many thanks to Seth Kahan for pointing me to it.) While it is aimed at a business audience, I think you will find that the concepts [...]

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4 Steps Toward Achieving a Learning Goal

January 10, 2011

There are a number of books I return to time and again for inspiration. Among those in the non-fiction category, Made to Stick and Switch by Chip and Dan Heath are easily in my top 10, so I was thrilled to have the opportunity recently to participate in a Switch Bootcamp offered by Dan. It [...]

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How to Improve Concentration and Focus: 7 Tips

June 17, 2010

I’ve written about a range of habits related to learning, but one I have not yet covered is concentration – perhaps because I find it among the hardest of habits to truly master. I’m as apt as anybody to have my working memory hijacked by the temptations of multi-tasking, ….or simply to become distracted by [...]

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While My Guitar Gently Weeps – Or the Importance of Setting Learning Goals

September 22, 2009

There is a part of me that resists the whole idea of setting goals for lifelong learning. With the world of tests and degrees behind me for the most part, I welcome the opportunity to be a dabbler, a dilettante, a jack-of-all-trades but master of none. Why should I add the stress of achieving goals [...]

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