Six Deliberate Practice techniques and skills you might not know about. — I’m a professional learner. I’ve been one my entire life. Since I entered elementary school, I’ve graduated from college, earned an advanced degree, and participated in dozens of post-graduate training programs. Since 2012, I’ve been a “self-directed learner,” designing and implementing all of my learning efforts. …

2 wicked problems we’re trying to confront at the same time. — My favorite Yogi Berra quote speaks to what all of us should do when we come to a crossroads; When you come to a fork in the road, take it… In the Western World, a fork in the road is a metaphorical expression for a crucial moment in life or…

Two radically new approaches to learning in the 21st century. Elsewhere, I’ve suggested there are two new learning strategies each of us should know more about: The first — which I call “Front-End Learning” — is the approach to use when you’re interested in acquiring and absorbing new information about…

The joys and challenges that come with collaborative learning. In the hands of an experienced gardener, orchids have no equal. Few pleasures surpass watching an orchid thrive and bloom. Given the care and attention they need, orchids are breathtakingly beautiful. They bloom forever, and offer a delightful fragrance. What’s true…

An exploration of why each of us needs to augument all of our formal educational efforts with a strong dose of self-directed, real-world learning experiments. The world we’re living in right now is characterized by intricate global connections, accelerating rates of change, and unprecedented levels of complexity. Which — when…

Worldview experts are showing us that there are three distinctly different worldviews active in the world right now. They are the the “Traditional Worldview, the “Modern Worldview,” the “Post-Modern worldview,” and the “Integrative Worldview. As I’ve suggested elsewhere, each of these three worldviews hosts thousands of different mindsets that are…

Three quotes that, for years and years, have served me well. Three quotes that, at this point in time, could be life-savers for all of us as we begin to face up to the ‘New Normal’ world that Covid-19 and its varriants are creating for us. If you’re going to…

A brief discussion of ‘default’ and ‘intended’ futures, focusing in particular on the difference between them and why having just one ‘intended future’ is so much more powerful than a living with a dozen default futures. Your ‘default future’ is best understood as the life you’ll be living in ten…

An explloration of the ‘trail markers’ you encounter when you find yourself on on an effective learning journey After stuying experiential learning for several years, I come to know that every learning journey encounters at least five inflection points along its pathway. …