There’s a lot to learn from the past. It helps us to understand the present and also prepare for the future.
The future, however, must be invented. And one cannot simply extrapolate for the future.
Tag: learning
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Chances are that, whichever path you want to follow, someone else has gone before you. If not all the way, but they would have done enough for you to learn from them and then build on it.
The challenge, then, is to seek out those opportunities to learn from those who paved the path for is, and build on it.
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One building block at a time. That’s how we make progress, by turning a pile of bricks in something useful.
Of course, it starts with a plan. It helps to have at least a general direction of where we are headed.
The plan makes the hard work take shape and creates shared meaning. It also helps to clarify expectations.
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Many years ago, I learned of the signal to noise ratio. It states that there is always noise, and you should design your system in a way that the noise does not interfere with the message you are sending.
While this may make it sound as if noise is a bad thing, to be cancelled out of the system, it may not always be the case. For what is noise anyway? It is just everything else you don’t want at the moment.
Maybe not today, but there might be another signal among the noise of today that could be pointing to the future. We must then, not only focus on getting our message across now, but getting the message from the noise as well.
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So many times the story we tell is a revision from what happened. We recreate the past when we reflect, and we, without realizing it, recreate a different reality.
One way to get a hold of the true story, and learn on the way, is to manage the process. A bit of planning, checking in on progress, and then reflecting. Because we have multiple points to check in, our story has a greater chance of being grounded in reality. And that might improve how we learn.
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