“Remember that you may have to disturb yourself in order to become aware of yourself, in order to establish a reference point for your progress…” John Roger The term disruptive technology comes from Clay Christensen’s book “The Innovator’s Dilemma”. My…
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Practice is learning
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE PERSONAL HISTORY EVERY GOOD BOY DOES FINE A life in piano lessons. BY JEREMY DENK This wonderful article brought out a few important points to me. For those of us who are teachers, coaches, mentors etc.; the…
The Productivity Paradox
Practice does not make perfect. Perfect isn’t even a goal. Practice makes ease. This is true in yoga practice, where we are getting more supple, flexible and aligned in intention and action. This is true in work were we are…
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Come From the Heart
“in life as in love…there’s such a thing as trying too hard”
“For the things…
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
I have a lot of Practice
I am about to sit down to practice the guitar. I take lessons once a week and I practice daily. I run scales, play songs from sheet music and I improvise solos over backing tracks that my teacher provided on CD or…
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Mind Maps for Meeting Notes
Mind Maps are a non-linear method of capturing thoughts. They work like our minds work, in a web of interconnected thoughts, ideas, concepts. Here’s a Wiki on them if the process is new to you. They are great way to…
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We’re surfing not sculpting
I read something today that essentially said ‘we can’t control anything, what looks like mastery is really just cooperating with what is’. It looks like control because it is happening in real time. We are alert, aware, supple and responsive.…
Tagged with: flexibility, mastery, planning, Practice, productivity, surfing
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Posted in Leadership, personal productivity
We Fail to Learn
One of the fastest ways to learn is to fail. Information, instruction and feedback in the context of an experience of failure is more useful than abstractly presented curriculum in no particular context other that the learning environment itself (classroom).…
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