Experience or Insight?
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Experience or Insight?
- Are you one of those people who can derive insights from your experience?
Not everyone does. We all have experiences. They are an inevitable consequence of living life. However not everyone will turn those experiences into insights.
Someone once said ‘reflection turns experience into insights’ but too many people are too busy to take the quiet time necessary to do the reflection in the hustle and bustle of modern day life. We are too busy speeding on to the next experience to learn from the one just passed.
Even if we do take some time to think about it, we probably use the same belief system and the same thought process that we have always used and so the conclusions we may draw are likely to be biased and flawed to align with what we think we already know. In other words we arent likely to find any new insights, just confirmation of the old biases.
It was Einstein who said that we can’t solve our problems with the same level of thinking that we were at when we created them. For the last few weeks I have recommended that you reflect and that you do so with a coach, a trusted partner or a friend who has your best interests at heart, who can give you a different viewpoint, a different perspective. If you like, a thinking partner, for as Thomas Schelling said “One thing a person cannot do, no matter how rigorous his analysis or heroic his imagination is to draw up a list of things that would never occur to him.”
To do:
- Diarise regular ‘time outs’ to reflect on the lessons life is trying to teach you.(daiuly is best)
- Seek out someone who can be a thinking partner with you, someone who has your best interests at heart and has the courage to challenge your thinking and your beliefs.
- Seek out a compassionate yet unreasonable friend who is immune from your B/S
- Capture your learnings in a daily journal
Many successful business owners eventually hit a wall on growth and struggle to climb it alone. When you work with me you get a fresh perspective, a solid plan, and customised coaching so you can grow and scale your business safely and at speed.
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