WHY LEARNING IS AN ACT OF COURAGE
What I’ve realized, as I travel across  the world helping people Lead Without a Title, is that the very act of  learning something new means you must also disrupt your thinking of  yesterday. To accept or even just to entertain a new idea means you must  leave the safety of your former way of perceiving the world and open up  to something foreign. And that means you’d have to leave the protection  of your comfort zone/Safe Harbor of The Known and sail out into the  unknown – even for just a moment.
The unknown is a pretty scary place for  most people. Ordinary people get threatened there. Victims get  frightened there. And so the average person in business (and within  life) avoids learning and exposing themselves to any idea or influence  that might cause them to have to rethink the way they think and  re-behave the way they have always behaved. But the fascinating paradox  is that trying to avoid new ideas to stay safe is actually enormously  dangerous – and infused with risk.
On the other hand, those who make the  choice to Lead Without a Title have a lust to learn. They remain  blindingly curious. They read books daily. They drink coffee with  brilliant people. They have long conversations with role models whose  ideas provoke/challenge/irritate them.  Real leaders truly get that  learning and ideation is the fuel of life. And that all it takes is a  single idea to change the game at work (and rescript the story that is  your life). Sure they too feel uncomfortable or even scared when faced  with an idea that confronts their most closely cherished beliefs. But  they understand that to resist the idea is to resist growth. As well as  their next level of Mastery+Progress+Leadership. And so they move  forward. Into an uncertain yet gorgeously exciting future.
الله - الوطن - إنسان السودان الممتهن
0 التعليقات :
إرسال تعليق