He Who Lives By The Crystal Ball

As Harvard Developmental Psychologist Robert Kegan, Who Has Studied Bridgewater, Says, In Most Work Places Everyone Is Working Two Jobs. The First Is Whatever Their Actual Job Is; The Second Consists Of Managing Others' Impressions Of Them, Especially By Hiding Weaknesses And Inadequacies - Which Is An Enormous Waste Of Energy.

If You Can Stare Hard At Your Problems, They Almost Always Shrink Or Disappear, Because You Almost Always Find A Better Way Of Dealing With Them Than If You Don't Face Them Head On. The More Difficult The Problem, The More Important It Is That You Stare At It And Deal With It.

To Be Successful, We Need Everyone To Think Independently And Work Through Disagreement To Decide What's Best.

I Believe That Our Society's "mistake-phobia" Is Crippling, A Problem That Begins In Most Elementary Schools, Where We Learn To Learn What We Are Taught Rather Than To Form Our Own Goals And To Figure Out How To Achieve Them. We Are Fed With Facts And Tested And Those Who Make The Fewest Mistakes Are Considered To Be The Smart Ones, So We Learn That It Is Embarrassing To Not Know And To Make Mistakes. Our Education System Spends Virtually No Time On How To Learn From Mistakes, Yet This Is Critical To Real Learning.

Remember That Experience Creates Internalization. Doing Things Repeatedly Leads To Internalization, Which Produces A Quality Of Understanding That Is Generally Vastly Superior To Intellectualized Learning.