12 Ways to Find Extra Time for Learning
The human mind is wired to be learning all the time – even during significant parts of the time when we are asleep – but with all the noise, distractions, and interruptions of modern life, …
Learning Habits
Where Leaders Go to Learn (This I Believe)
I was at a monthly gathering of local business colleagues last week when I encountered the following illustration (if you don’t see it, please “load images” in your e-mail or click through to the post): …
Where Leaders Go to Learn (This I Believe) Continue Reading »
5 Tips to Lean Towards Lifelong Learning
The following is a guest post from Katie Wilson. It’s an understatement to say that the human brain is a complicated mass of neurons and connections that is hard to comprehend. What we can understand …
When’s the last time you asked why?
To act without knowing why; to do things as they have always been done, without asking why; to engage in an activity all one’s life without really understanding what it is about and how it …
When's the last time you asked why?
To act without knowing why; to do things as they have always been done, without asking why; to engage in an activity all one’s life without really understanding what it is about and how it …
Discipline
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 …
5 Traits of the Super Learner
How strong is your capacity to learn? Can you leap complex concepts with a single bound? Master a new language faster than a speeding locomotive? Roll your eyes at hyperbole without even blinking? Perhaps you …
Five Themes for the Web 2.0 Learner
In recent post I mentioned that Mission to Learn turned one on May 15. (Note: this was way back in 2008 (!) – but this post has remained relevant.) As chance would have it, I spoke …