How do you learn? Very often we learn with a definitive target, such as a musical instrument, or a discipline subject such as accounting. This is great. They are more to-do, or knowledge based learning. Another way of learning is though imitation such as a child learns from his father. Other methods include experimentation, try and error, internalizing observations.
Learning in management, I think, the most effective and sure learning is by doing. In doing, one is able to include the variations of external factors and the influence of implicit power and dynamics in his learning process.
If you have a desire to learn, be active and take up responsibilities. Let the fear of failure and desire to succeed be your teachers.
edited from a group post published May 30, 2011
Responses:
LP
I could relate well with your insightful analysis. Well said.
To add on to what you have started this conversation on external factors, I would like to add that not all learning are well paved nor maped-out by our forerunners with role models for us to mimic.
Necessity could put us in the forefront of learning - so a society/corporation/entrep
The Robinsons learnt to live in tree house on an island (fictional) and Alice learnt to find friends in another world after having fell into the rabbit hole (fictional).
In real life, at each stage of our life, we may involuntarily find ourselves facing new external factors and have little time to "do our learning" in time - being a new parent, being a new hire, accepting a promotion to a
senior position or on a less positive note, battling with cancer, facing a financial crisis, losing market shares, or morning over a natural disaster.
How Einstein came up with the speed of light and how Newton coined the word gravity after a falling apple are just some of the examples where the talented revolutionaized our social world with unprecedented breakthroughs without following the conventional route of learning.
Chinese restaurants in North America is another example. The railroad workers met their survival needs by delicious North American Chinese food at a time when discrimination marginalized their opportunity to participate in the labour market.
Then in the music world, the Blues, Jazz, Gospel, and Rap artists started out as protest counter-culture. Gradually each of them found their way to enter pop culture.
Could learning by through subjective experience? Intuition? Spiritual guidance? or simply the self-expression?
Some knowledge of ancient civilizations have been lost. Could archaeological digs recover some of these mysterious wealth of knowledge from out past?
What does it take to learn to be empathetic? What does it take for humankind
LP
In simpler terms, learning is a way of life in modern society, an animated way of looking forward into the near fuiture while keeping ourselves modest and humble. The more we learn, the more we realize there is more to learn. It keeps us from boredom while engages us in problem-solving activities like solving a riddle. It keeps us companionship and put us on a meaningful journey.
Happiness often contains an element of learning - a sense of accomplishment of having learnt when we look back in retrospect and be able therefore to carry out tasks.
Happiness often contains an element of learning - a sense of accomplishment of having learnt when we look back in retrospect and be able therefore to carry out tasks.
PL
In learning - higher level learning if there is such a thing, should include a backward looking perspective and a forward looking perspective. These perspectives should not be limited to historical development and future trends, but time perspectives of the learning experiences of the learner. He/she has to relate the learning into his/her own experiences in this area which could be experiential or conceptual.
沒有留言:
張貼留言