Your Ongoing Willingness To Learn Helps You Continue to Succeed
willingness to learn: ready to acquire new knowledge
Your life-long willingness to learn will help you continue to succeed.As has always been the case, change is inescapable.
Without question, this openess to learning is a positive and desirable personality trait.
And just as certainly, in our quickly changing world, a willingness to learn is as essential for your ongoing and ultimate success... as it is to continuing current and up to date in your industry and in your market.
The challenge of having a willingness to learn is not recognizing its importance.
It is knowing when and how to exercise this willingness.
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Something New Requires New Knowledge
Today's world changes so fast that not a day goes by without breath-taking new applications and ideas which offer new ways of performing familiar old tasks.While there is nothing basically wrong with sticking to tried and true methods of doing things, it is important maintain your willingness to learn as new and potentially better ways of doing things are introduced.
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Designated Learning Opportunities
Traditionally learning has taken place in officially designated learning opportunities such as schools and classrooms.
Today, these learning opportunities include short courses, workshop and seminars both off-line and on-line.
In most cases, these sessions have been essentially information dumps in which the instructors dump information on their students, in the hope that the students will learn something.
While still useful, designated learning opportunities usually offer more information than what we need...and consume too much time for the learning that actually occurs.
In today's quickly changing world, we usually need smaller chunks of knowledge for shorter periods of time.
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Learning From Experience
Experience is one
of the best sources of these smaller chunks of knowledge.
You can learn from your own experience.
And you can also learn from the experience of others.
To learn from others, the best approach is the easiest: simply put your questioning mind and ask the appropriate questions to get the information you need.
You can also use social media to increase your sources of useful information.
Twitter is a perfect tool for gathering useful information, based on the experience of others.
There is even a free e-book that will help you learn how to use Twitter.
(While you are checking out this e-book, have a look at the other free and low-cost e-books. They will all help you learn from the experience of others.)
Your past experience and accumulated knowledge help you attract prospects and serve clients.
However, your continued and ongoing success depends upon your willingness to learn....and this is a life-long process.
When people think that they have learned enough and that there is nothing new for them to learn, they will inevitably stagnate.
And stagnation inevitably reduces the likelihood of succeeding.
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