Every opportunity is a rich learning experience. How do you see it and covert them to your conscious learning effort?
You can, only if you get to park your emotions, attachment and look at it in silence as a continuum of time than as a siloed experience. What software systems offer is a medium to capture the opportunity. But can you pour out the internalized way of learning in any medium ? Probably not!
Here is where I have seen Learning consultants, KM consultants, proponents of idea management cycle, get to err. The only medium that can bring this internalized learning requires the right ambience, right moment, right crowd, right mood, and be connected with self and time to sink in, reflect, articulate, comment and answer queries in a like minded group devoid of personal interests in the subject. A movie review in a group is one such experience. Contrast it with a written review and you get the picture.
These are the moments that allow for creating self sustaining immutable learning model. It is time, space and mood that determines the impact. Thus creating the people mix and taking time for reflection is an important organization builder assignment.
Sounds unusual. Well, first few chapters of Presence, attest to the belief above.
You can, only if you get to park your emotions, attachment and look at it in silence as a continuum of time than as a siloed experience. What software systems offer is a medium to capture the opportunity. But can you pour out the internalized way of learning in any medium ? Probably not!
Here is where I have seen Learning consultants, KM consultants, proponents of idea management cycle, get to err. The only medium that can bring this internalized learning requires the right ambience, right moment, right crowd, right mood, and be connected with self and time to sink in, reflect, articulate, comment and answer queries in a like minded group devoid of personal interests in the subject. A movie review in a group is one such experience. Contrast it with a written review and you get the picture.
These are the moments that allow for creating self sustaining immutable learning model. It is time, space and mood that determines the impact. Thus creating the people mix and taking time for reflection is an important organization builder assignment.
Sounds unusual. Well, first few chapters of Presence, attest to the belief above.
A resounding Yes! to the post. Especially the line: "You can, only if you get to park your emotions, attachment and look at it in silence as a continuum of time than as a siloed experience." I can vouch for this.
ReplyDeleteAnd it is true that "learning" is a matter of reflection, an opportunity for the myriad bits and pieces of information to sink in, be internalized...
People mix is important as is a desire to learn. Most important probably is detachment and a willingness to learn from every source, every one...and to treat every instance as a point of learning...
I HAVE BEEN SPURRED TO WRITE THESE FEW LINES. Learning in every field is a must if one desires to stand above others.How this process is modulated and processed further is left to the individual's wisdom. But the right approach in the right ambience ALONG WITH THE RIGHT MENTOR is the key to answer. But for what is learnt to be sustained an exercise of reflection is to be made constantly since education is afterall is RECOLLECTION.
ReplyDeleteTrue. I missed Mentors in the list. Thanks for pointing it out.
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