In preparing for this article, I had a powerful realization. It struck me that many times when we are in need of motivation or ideas to improve ourselves, we tend to look for new concepts in new books, new CD’s and new teachers. If we could revisit what we had learned in the past, perhaps we would find a deeper level of understanding and answers our own questions.
I would like to suggest that you go back to your own bookshelf, or wherever you keep your learning tools, and pull something off of the shelf that you have not paged through or listened to in the last year.
These tools could be anything – training manuals, sales books, notes from a seminar, notes from a meeting or seminar etc. I would bet that Read More...
It was just about 6 a.m. and traffic was picking up . The roads were wet and a little sloppy from just under a foot of snow dumped on them the night before. I was on my way from my home in New Hampshire to a morning business presentation in central Massachussetts. As I approached Concord, I realized I was coming up on a rollover accident that had just occurred a few minutes before. There were already a few people helping, and I pulled over to see if another pair of hands might be needed.
When I got out, I saw a woman standing next to a red SUV that was sitting on it’s side, driver’s side down. She was crying and talking on the phone. I noticed a man with a patch on his shoulder and immediately Read More...
Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough talks about the value of education.
He sites Milton Friedman, the famous economist, who said the most powerful motivating force is self-interest. He took this a step further and also said it is also our interest in our children and grandchildren. The overriding riding theme behind this Read More...
With students returning to the classroom this month, we wanted to focus this month’s contest around education.
Education is the cornerstone to professional success and if you continue to invest in education over the course of a lifetime, constantly improving your skills, the heights you will reach personally and professionally are limitless.
So, the question to answer for this month’s contest is:
What is the most important concept you learned in school and why?
This could be anything that you learned in grades K-12. It could be a particular subject that has served you in adulthood, a life’s lesson a teacher taught you or a kernel of knowledge that has Read More...
Henry Ford once said, “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
Jim Roan teaches that formal education will get you a living, but self-education will get you a fortune.
Aristotle went as far as to say that the difference between an educated and uneducated man is the same difference as being alive or being dead.
If you think about it, the solution to just about every challenge you face in your life has already been discovered by someone else, you just have not learned it yet. Being in the information age, we have better information more information Read More...
Forget the cover-ups, wrinkle creams, and cosmetic surgeries. To stay young, form the habit of Constant Learning. Education is a virtue that guarantees youthfulness.
Wisdom is not the province of the old. We all have known old people who continuously spout off opinions, but an old person who listens is the one who actually knows something. Nor is education about going to school. A classroom setting may be an effective venue for an introduction to some subjects. Nevertheless, mastery is always gained from what you do outside the classroom. So stop dividing life into school and “real life.” Real life is your school and it always has been.
In preparing for this article, I had a powerful realization. It struck me that many times when we are in need of motivation or ideas to improve ourselves, we tend to look for new concepts in new books, new CD’s and new teachers. If we could revisit what we had learned in the past, perhaps we would find a deeper level of understanding and answers our own questions.
