Are You Willing to Discard Long-Held Beliefs and Understanding?
Publication: Continuous learning | Intellectual Humility | Path to progress | Understanding Dissonace
A crucial aspect of having a long and successful career is continuous learning. Learning new skills is one thing, but what do you do when the learning requires you to discard long-held beliefs, data or an understanding of how things are? Throughout our lives, we amass pieces of information and data, forming knowledge, views, and […]
What do you really know?
Publication: Continuous learning | Critical Thinking | Intellectual Curiosity
Recently, I read Jess Hill’s confronting and compelling book, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse. She recounts analysis which dismantles the concept of Stockholm Syndrome. I’m sure you’ve heard of it; perhaps like me, even used the term. If you haven’t, it was invented in 1973 by a psychiatrist, following a […]
What’s your breeding ground for complacency?
Publication: Comfort Zone | complacency | Continuous learning | Growth Mindset
The world is moving and changing quickly. Do you keep pace with the change, stride ahead or are you left behind? History is littered with stories of amazing companies that were the darlings of investors, and now no longer exist. For many of these companies, the root of their demise was sewn in the arrogant […]