If you stop being curious how will you ever grow? You may fall into some lessons or you may even be forced into a situation that will make you grow. For example if someone cheats on you, that would be like falling into a life lesson that you unfortunately will never be able to forget but hopefully can grow from. A situation that you are forced into that may make you grow is a networking event or work training. In both of those situation if you start with a closed heart it is going to be a lot harder for you to learn.
You can start by reading, pursuing professional organizations, blogging, teaching others, and surrounding yourself with other smart individuals. Reading and going to events seem like obvious places where learning can occur, but why would I add teaching others?
If you want to learn a subject, do some research and then teach someone else what you learned.
You really have to know your stuff and do some research to be able to teach a subject. I bet you write out what you want to tell them, edit it a few times, and then practice teaching them. By the time you are done putting together your mini-lesson syllabus you probably have a pretty good hold on the subject. Teachers do this all the time to their students, when they ask you to do a report and an in class presentation.
Test your failures, move forward, record and start another test. Never stop learning.
I probably read three books a month, along with hundreds of blog posts, and attend dozens of events. I try to record my insights and thoughts on those books and events on this blog, that way I can expand from my research and get even more feedback from you. After I read, I put my hypothesis from what I learned into action: hypothesis then test, record and study the results. Results are never the ending to a science project, analytics or a test they are only the beginning. With any variable you can either expand on that test or test another related variable. Say I have a website and I want to test the design to see how many visitors will fill out my contact form based off site colors or the size of the submit button. In this situation I'm trying to optimize a site using multi-variable testing, but we can do A/B testing as well. Their are tons of tools you can use to do this, one of those tools is Google optimizer.
What are you testing? What tools are you using to test?
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“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” -- Albert Einstein
You can start by reading, pursuing professional organizations, blogging, teaching others, and surrounding yourself with other smart individuals. Reading and going to events seem like obvious places where learning can occur, but why would I add teaching others?
If you want to learn a subject, do some research and then teach someone else what you learned.
You really have to know your stuff and do some research to be able to teach a subject. I bet you write out what you want to tell them, edit it a few times, and then practice teaching them. By the time you are done putting together your mini-lesson syllabus you probably have a pretty good hold on the subject. Teachers do this all the time to their students, when they ask you to do a report and an in class presentation.
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” -- Albert Einstein
Test your failures, move forward, record and start another test. Never stop learning.
I probably read three books a month, along with hundreds of blog posts, and attend dozens of events. I try to record my insights and thoughts on those books and events on this blog, that way I can expand from my research and get even more feedback from you. After I read, I put my hypothesis from what I learned into action: hypothesis then test, record and study the results. Results are never the ending to a science project, analytics or a test they are only the beginning. With any variable you can either expand on that test or test another related variable. Say I have a website and I want to test the design to see how many visitors will fill out my contact form based off site colors or the size of the submit button. In this situation I'm trying to optimize a site using multi-variable testing, but we can do A/B testing as well. Their are tons of tools you can use to do this, one of those tools is Google optimizer.
“Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience.” -- Albert Einstein
What are you testing? What tools are you using to test?
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I like this post-I love learning in my own life. I haven't thought to apply it to my business, but I will now!
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