reflection

7 Secrets of a 9 Billion Dollar Industry

February 24, 2010

Want to know how to change your life, achieve pretty much anything, and make yourself rich to boot? There is a huge “self help” industry out there eager to help you do it.

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The Three Essential Career Questions

February 16, 2010

Increasingly it seems to me there are really only three essential questions that drive a successful, fulfilling career:

What do I really want to be great at?
How can I be great at it?
What am I willing to sacrifice?

So much of lifelong learning involves figuring out the first question.
Then figuring out how to do it.
Then learning – [...]

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Two Brief Lessons from the Mile High Learning Club

November 5, 2009

I do some of my best learning when I am settled in at 35,000 feet. I read. I tap into the large store of iPod learning content I keep on hand. I think (although it may look like I’m sleeping). Sometimes I even manage to find a nugget of wisdom in the airline magazines. Here’s [...]

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A Short Collection of Powerful But Under Appreciated Learning Strategies

September 15, 2009

As my recent post on reflection as a daily habit may suggest, I’ve been in a bit of a reflective mood lately, and one of the things on my mind is how I have tended to make the biggest learning “leaps” in my life. In so many cases they have had little to do with [...]

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Discipline

June 18, 2008

I’ve been thinking about discipline and learning a lot lately. (Feel free to pause and savor the full flavor of “learning” as a gerund.) A recent post from Andrew Sullivan in timesonline, via Nicholas Carr (who inspired Sullivan’s post), prompts me to say a few words about it today. More to come, I’m sure.
Sullivan writes:
In [...]

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