Be a better, faster learner.

Great post at Mark Sanborn's Leadership blog, and since I commented on it, I thought I would put it here on  my blog too.  Kind of like the tagline from the notepad company I like, "I'm not writing it down to remember it later, I am writing it down to remember it now."

The main points:


To be a better, faster learner you need to do these things:

1. Slow down. If you are moving too fast, information is getting passed over or filtered out.

2. Reflect. That means contemplating not just on what happened, but what it means.

3. Record. Keeping a journal will help you capture lessons to review or reconsider in the future.

4. Share. You’ll gain additional insights and notice nuances when you share what you’ve learned with others, whether your team or someone you mentor.

Seems to me that these four steps might not just help you become a better learner, they might be good for your health as well.  I might need that.

Crazy!

This is the craziest thing I've seen in a long time..
You have to get out of your seat and walk away from
your computer. People may think you're crazy. But it's well worth it.

When you look at this picture you see it's Albert Einstein..

But if you stand 15 feet away it will become Marilyn Monroe.. Now what do you think of the reliability of eyewitness testimony?

Caribou, Football, Dominoes and my two youngest...

Sure its kind of a pain in the supple buttocks that my kids all go to school in a town 10 miles the opposite direction of my work from my house.  But after I drop the oldest of the three at the High School, I have a little time to kill before the Elementary bus comes to get the other two.  Sometimes we go to the bus stop and throw whatever ball we happen to have in the car around to each other.  Today though, for the second time in as many weeks that I have brought them to school in the morning, we went to Caribou.  The first time, they both got the "kids" hot chocolate.  Its a smaller, colder version, and this morning both boys told me that they were pretty sure that a small would be better.  Hotter and bigger, right?  We got our drinks and sat down for the customary game of dominoes, and half way through the youngest asked if he could go get an ice cube from the barrista.  I said "Sure." and off he went.  The middle boy said only loud enough for me to hear "Maybe somebody should have ordered the kids hot chocolate."

Here come the environmental terrorists...

Want to know the scary part of this?  Its not for Halloween, and its not a joke.  This is a serious ad created by environmentalist wackos, and somebody accepted money to run this ad over the airwaves in the UK.