Hopefully you plan on learning something new this year that you can apply to your professional or personal life. The 4 Stages of Learning that I will discuss in this post will help you put your progress, and even growing pains, into prospective. I will use an analogy of scuba diving to illustrate the points in each stage.
Stage 1 – Unconscious Incompetence
Restated, this means you do not know what you do not know. For instance, when you were very young, you did not know scuba diving existed. All you knew was that if you did not hold your breath when you were underwater, you could drown.
Stage 2 – Conscious Incompetence
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It is the end of the year and Freedom Personal Development needs to clear out some inventory to make room for some very exciting programs we will be offering in 2010.
We have a limited number of products available at these discounted prices, so if a link below does not work, it means we have sold out and there are no more products at this discounted rate.
Here are the Personal Development CDs on Sale:
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Yesterday, Roger Seip wrote about training your brain to make that muscle stronger. For today’s Top 10 Tips Tuesday, we offer 10 ways you can improve your brain’s fitness.
Be Free!
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Brain fitness has basic principles: variety and curiosity. When anything you do becomes second nature, you need to make a change. If you can do the crossword puzzle in your sleep, it’s time for you to move on to a new challenge in order to get the best workout for your brain.
Curiosity about the world around you, how it works and how you can understand it will keep your brain Read More...
What does it take to Grow?
In almost every workshop we deliver, we try to teach the principle that the mind is a muscle. What does this mean? Well, your mind and really your whole life operate on the same growth and strengthening principles as any muscle in your body, and almost everyone misunderstands what it takes to make a muscle grow. Pay attention, here.
I always ask my students “what do you need to do to make a muscle grow stronger or larger?” They always reply with great enthusiasm, “You need to EXERCISE!” That is totally incorrect. You can exercise your muscles all day long and they will never get one iota stronger.
To make a Read More...
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Top 10 Personal Development Books
There are tons of personal development or self help books out there. Some are good, some are terrible. So how do you tell the good stuff from the mediocre?
This list will be a great starting point, as it lists and briefly reviews ten of the best personal development books out there. These books cover a wide variety of sub-genres within the personal development area, but all of these can help you 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...
Thank you all for sharing all the wonderful lessons learned during your days in school.
I truly enjoyed reading your responses and found it was such a great reminder to me that much of who we are today can be attributed to the concepts and ideas that we learned as students.
I also found it interesting, but not surprising, that much of what we remember from our days in the classroom had very little to do with the actual content of what was being taught. The real lessons can from the principles we were able to gain or learn.
Thanks again for your thoughtful answers. It was difficult to narrow Read More...
Many studies today show that as we age we tend to focus our education, training, and learning on topics that we are already familiar with and subjects that pertain to our current career.
While that is all fine and good, what ends up happening is that the majority of the population stops researching and learning about completely new subjects and skill-sets.
The mind is a muscle, the more you use it, the stronger it becomes. Well, let me give you an analogy to explain what is happening to that muscle for anyone who stops learning new things, and only learns deeper levels of subjects they already know about.
It would be like somebody who wants to stay in shape physically, and they knew one Read More...
September is the month that kids are heading back to school. For those of us who are not in formal school, how do we insure that we are continually learning?
Henry Ford said, “Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” How can we do this?
I will share with you three ways we can be proactive about the learning process, even without being in formal classrooms or universities.
1. Read
Reading 5 minutes a day will do you a world of good. If you only read ten books in your field per year, in four years, you will have read more information than most graduate students have in your area. You’ll be a little master of 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...
