"The real act of discovery consists of not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes."-Marcel Proust
I read an article today in Harvard Business Review titled, "Are you learning as fast as the world is changing?" The title caught my eye and it made me pause to ponder the answer.
In past posts I have talked about reading many different magazines and books. But is that enough?
Maybe exposing oneself to different types of people is the answer?
The author of the post, Bill Taylor, offers three habits of the mind that would help:
1. First, the best leaders (and learners) have the widest field of vision.
2. The best source of new ideas can be old ideas from unrelated fields
3. Successful learners work hard not to be loners
I believe that the last two habits lead to the first. If one goes out of their way to meet new people, from different fields, and connect ideas from their field into their own they will learning as fast as the world is changing.
For me this was very easy to do in Chicago. It has been a lot harder in Texas.
Today's question is:
"How do you expose yourself to new people in different fields?"
I read an article today in Harvard Business Review titled, "Are you learning as fast as the world is changing?" The title caught my eye and it made me pause to ponder the answer.
In past posts I have talked about reading many different magazines and books. But is that enough?
Maybe exposing oneself to different types of people is the answer?
The author of the post, Bill Taylor, offers three habits of the mind that would help:
1. First, the best leaders (and learners) have the widest field of vision.
2. The best source of new ideas can be old ideas from unrelated fields
3. Successful learners work hard not to be loners
I believe that the last two habits lead to the first. If one goes out of their way to meet new people, from different fields, and connect ideas from their field into their own they will learning as fast as the world is changing.
For me this was very easy to do in Chicago. It has been a lot harder in Texas.
Today's question is:
"How do you expose yourself to new people in different fields?"
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