by DavidFraser | Feb 20, 2017 | Leadership, Learning, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
Learning something isn’t the same as accepting it, necessarily. We don’t have to commit to agreeing with something before, or even as, we learn it. And often we can’t evaluate some new piece of knowledge or a new skill properly until we have thoroughly...
by DavidFraser | Oct 10, 2016 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
Of course, it’s good to make up our own mind about whether something we’re doing is right or not. Nevertheless, a bit of external validation is still very welcome. We can seek it out ourselves, for our own needs. But what about other people—those we have reason to...
by DavidFraser | Jun 12, 2013 | Personal Mastery, Wisdom
That might seem a strange question, but think about it: Do you resist the learning which comes from your influences? Actually, I think, most of us do. Because influence means change, and change means discomfort for our ego, we tend to push back on ideas that...
by DavidFraser | Apr 27, 2013 | Change, Leadership, Personal Mastery
… as opposed to what you know about. It’s one thing to know about something, quite another to know a subject and be able to deploy it in life. Unless you can do (or be) something, you don’t know it, not really. There’s a world of a difference between...
by DavidFraser | Feb 25, 2013 | Learning, Relationship Skills, Wisdom
It’s a funny thing… Socially, it seems to be expected that we behave as if everyone knows what they need to know; that they are not learning anything further; that they are complete. And yet… We’re learning all the time: How to deal with new situations,...