Front-End & Back-End Learning
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 it comes to learning — means that besides the formal degrees and advanced training certificates we’ve earned, each of us needs to know how to design and implement real-worle learning eperiments that transform the knowledge we’ve acquired in school or at a professional training program into a variety of real-world learning efforts. Learning efforts that help us accomplish three crucial tasks:
- Improve the key skills we already have,
- Develop the new skills we need to succeed at work and in our lives, and
- Reframe our outdated modes of thinking.
Whether we’re trying to strengthen existing skills, develop new ones, or reframe outdated beliefs, this kind of learning takes time. Time to explore, to think through, and to practice, practice and then practice some more.