JKLTip Do you know how to learn best? Think of one thing you are learning and apply the principles of effective learning, if you want it bad enough you’ll get up naturally every time you fall
Learning is such an incredible topic to me, and I think it’s traditional definitions give it a bad name, but it’s so incredible to me how capable of learning we are and how simple, yet challenging it can be
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If you are learning to skate, or skateboard, need not separate them here, heck, if learning to snowboard, or ski even, or whatever else the process is very similar:
-Decide what you want to do, envision the result
–Find resources, supports and how to’s to learn
—Come up with a plan to get started
—-Decide to go it alone, get some help, or a bit of both
—–Practice, practice, practice
——See how far you’ve come, move on, or keep going
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Pretty simple right? The process is incredibly similar from learning goal to learning goal, yet it can be incredibly challenging, depending on goals, and circumstance. I was inspired to write this thinking about Ross Capicchioni, if you don’t know the story look it up, probably one for a different day, but basically he was returning from a Brain Injury (from his “friend” shooting him in his head) and spoke to the fact that it’s easy to feel sorry for yourself, and re-learning how to do simple tasks was depressing, until he remembered what it was like to learn to skateboard
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This is how we should be learning in education, relationships, team projects and business. When you learn to skate, you fall, you fall a lot. But as a kid, who wants to get better at skateboarding and loves it intrinsically, it’s just a part of the process. You simply love the process so much that the results will be what the results will be, and then you’ll get up, dust yourself off and try again.