Overcoming barriers to learning: The reality approach
Our minds often create a distorted picture of ourselves and our abilities like this reflection of two faces in the water. Imagine that you walk to the bathroom after you wake up in the morning and look at your reflection. Your face is distorted as if in a funhouse mirror. It looks like your skin is dripping off of your face as if it were melting away. You're disgusted ... afraid to touch your own skin. This is just an exercise in imagination, right? But unfortunately, our minds do something like this to us every day. We [...]
Why learning alone can be an uphill battle (and how to use groups to ease your journey)
How groups sped up client learning and gave us new insights even after more than a decade of teaching On Yelp, there is one restaurant with a very curious distinction. It is not the most popular restaurant nor the one with the greatest number of reviews. Instead, it is famous for something rather unexpected. It has more 1-star reviews than any establishment listed by Yelp. How did it get such an infamous rating? The owner, chef Davide Cerretina, advertised a special: Leave a 1-star review on Yelp and get 25% off a pizza. He made this offer because, to [...]
Limiting Beliefs – How they destroy the love of learning
I was capable. Wasn't I? Shelly learned this dance after eliminating beliefs I was 23 and lived alone in New York City. For the next 8 years I toured the world, and managed a wholesale travel company. These were all things I knew how to do and loved doing. But what happened when I didn't already know how to do something? Or when something didn't come easily to me right away? I'd find someone else to do it ... or sometimes, I'd just fail to take it on. For example, my friend [...]
How the drip-drip method cures the slow-learning blues
Some skills seem quite difficult to learn. However, learning is much easier when the right structures are applied. One of these powerful learning structures is the drip-drip approach. Night-blooming cereus On Friday, June 12, 2015, over 1500 people came to a private garden in Tucson, Arizona. It was early evening. They had been alerted that a rare event was about to occur. The audience stood and watched for hours. Then it happened. Thousands of cereus flowers opened their ethereal, star-like blossoms all at once. The sight was stunning. This simultaneous blooming happens just [...]
Limiting Beliefs – How they destroy the love of learning
I was capable. Wasn't I? Shelly learned this dance after eliminating beliefs I was 23 and lived alone in New York City. For the next 8 years I toured the world, and managed a wholesale travel company. These were all things I knew how to do and loved doing. But what happened when I didn't already know how to do something? Or when something didn't come easily to me right away? I'd find someone else to do it ... or sometimes, I'd just fail to take it on. For example, my friend [...]
Overcoming barriers to learning: The reality approach
Our minds often create a distorted picture of ourselves and our abilities like this reflection of two faces in the water. Imagine that you walk to the bathroom after you wake up in the morning and look at your reflection. Your face is distorted as if in a funhouse mirror. It looks like your skin is dripping off of your face as if it were melting away. You're disgusted ... afraid to touch your own skin. This is just an exercise in imagination, right? But unfortunately, our minds do something like this to us every day. We [...]
How the drip-drip method cures the slow-learning blues
Some skills seem quite difficult to learn. However, learning is much easier when the right structures are applied. One of these powerful learning structures is the drip-drip approach. Night-blooming cereus On Friday, June 12, 2015 over 1500 people came to a private garden in Tucson, Arizona. It was early evening. They had been alerted that a rare event was about to occur. The audience stood and watched for hours. Then it happened. Thousands of cereus flowers opened their ethereal, star-like blossoms all at once. The sight was stunning. This simultaneous blooming happens just [...]
Why learning alone can be an uphill battle (and how to use groups to ease your journey)
How groups sped up client learning and gave us new insights even after more than a decade of teaching On Yelp, there is one restaurant with a very curious distinction. It is not the most popular restaurant nor the one with the greatest number of reviews. Instead, it is famous for something rather unexpected. It has more 1-star reviews than any establishment listed by Yelp. How did it get such an infamous rating? The owner, chef Davide Cerretina, advertised a special: Leave a 1-star review on Yelp and get 25% off a pizza. He made this offer because, to [...]
Overcoming barriers to learning: The reality approach
Our minds often create a distorted picture of ourselves and our abilities like this reflection of two faces in the water. Imagine that you walk to the bathroom after you wake up in the morning and look at your reflection. Your face is distorted as if in a funhouse mirror. It looks like your skin is dripping off of your face as if it were melting away. You're disgusted ... afraid to touch your own skin. This is just an exercise in imagination, right? But unfortunately, our minds do something like this to us every day. We [...]
