Deliberate Learning

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I’m a huge fan of learning. Let’s skip the fact I was a shitty student and it took me forever to graduate from college, I do love learning.

A great deal of my learning comes from happenstance. I see something that interests me, I read it and I learn something. I have a good memory for ideas, memes, and thesis’s, so I retain a lot of what I read.

This year however, I’m committing to deliberate learning goal. I want to know more about a couple things. One of them is how people learn and problem solve. I’m feeling that the key to success is in problem solving and learning. Therefore, I want understand how that can improve sales and selling.

In 2013, I’m making a deliberate decision to learn as much as I can about learning and problem solving.

We can’t help but learn. We’re wired to learn, but we can be deliberate in choosing what we learn and depending on the motive of that choice it can make a huge difference.

What are you deliberately choosing to learn in 2013? I’d love to know.

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Ranjan

I want to learn presentation/communication skills
http://asalesguy.com Keenan

Great one Ranjan, what is one if the ways you are going to do that? I recommend “Pitch Anything”
//keenan
Joe McGonigal

Learning is also one of my focuses this year….two books worth checking out….Mindset by Carol Dweck and Mastery by Robert Greene
Jay

Keenan,

Good post.

Learning is the only insurance to success today. It is not easy and not lot of people choose to do it. As I learned thinking is hard, slow and uncertain.

Strange but we are geared for certainty in an uncertain world. Certainty is secure and protects the incumbent, but with social media and technology evolving, it is those who can manage uncertainty are likely to thrive.

I am focusing on neuroscience, history, literature, business and technology.

I tend to blog what I am learning since that is the only way to really learn.
http://asalesguy.com Keenan

Neuroscience, history, business, technology, literature, great list, my brains not big enough for all that at once.
Is your blog, 5 tool group? I’ll have to check out what you learn.

//keenan
http://cartergibson.net Carter

For myself I have found that habits are a key part of learning. To improve I have to actual do something and that boils down to starting it and continuing it to completion. Sometimes it is as simple as having the habit of reading about a topic for 15 minutes a day. If I do that, I will at least start and consistently move forward. That is by no means the maximum but it does help form the habit of working to improve.

Check out the book, The Power of Habit, and some of BJ Fogg’s work for more on habits.
http://www.discussionsof.com/ Noel Coleman

Taking an intro course to Game Theory right now.
http://asalesguy.com Keenan

Reading some great research by Carol Dweck on Mastery Goals vs Performance goals.

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