Good Morning,
I finishing Regi Campbell’s book “Mentor Like Jesus”, and came across another gem. Well, the entire book is a gem and I hope to get a mentoring program like he wrote about set up myself.
He shared how those who get defensive during training sessions block themselves from learning what is in the session.
Unpacking that concept further, those who are defensive put up walls and block anything from coming in, even if it is good for them.
When do we get defensive when we are learning (and keep ourselves from learning)?
It’s when we think we already know.
When we read something or hear something or see some instruction which we have heard before by another trainer or source, we have two choices.
1. We can watch, listen and learn something we may have not heard before.
2. Check out mentally, telling ourselves we already know it and close the door to learning something new.
My grandmother taught me the same lesson many years ago. She told me that when someone starts talking to her about something that she already knows, that she plays dumb and listens to them, as you never know if you are going to learn something new.
And that is the key, to embrace each interaction, each time of learning as a chance to learn something new.
When you read many books or go to many seminars or webinars, etc., after a while, the information can get repetitive.
Find something new. What is new? It could be who is delivering the information. Also, it can be their different perspective.
One way to embrace this is change your approach. For example, I love leadership books, yet after 100 plus of them, the message can get dull, yet if approach each new book as something new, you can find new gems, like Dr. Albert Mohler’s, the Conviction to Lead which come at leadership from another perspective then the basic how to. Another approach is to come at learning a subject from the side. One example is to read biographies of great leaders. How did these leaders live their lives, how they became who they were or are, what challenges they faced and how they overcame them?
Treat each interaction or learning experience, no matter who you are interacting with, or book or webinar, as a new chance to learn, thereby knocking down our defensive walls, and see if we don’t just walk away with something new.
Enjoy!
Sanford Berenberg
Sanford@berenberg.net
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