{"id":154,"date":"2020-09-30T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T02:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifecoaching.sg\/LIFESCOOP\/?p=154"},"modified":"2020-09-15T16:43:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T08:43:59","slug":"increasing-my-learning-index-sharpening-my-saw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifecoaching.sg\/LIFESCOOP\/increasing-my-learning-index-sharpening-my-saw\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing My Learning Index: Sharpening My Saw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The desire for self-improvement and self-fulfilment is what Maslow would call \u2018SelfActualisation\u2019. This quest for continuous improvement and learning is what Covey terms, \u2018Sharpening the Saw\u2019. In Learning Organisation, it is called \u2018Personal Mastery\u2019 or in John Maxwell\u2019s words, \u2018Raising the Lid\u2019.


How can I do this? I propose 2 approaches to Learning: i) \u2018Inside-Out\u201d Approach and ii) \u2018Outside-In\u2019 Approach.


Inside Out (Man in the Mirror)<\/span>
We know by now that for any change to take place, it must start from the \u2018Man in The Mirror\u2019. A few useful questions with regards to \u201cSharpening My Saw\u201d:


a) Do I read Daily? Do I go to the library or bookshop often to borrow and buy books? Sir Francis Bacon once said, \u201cReading Maketh a Full Man\u201d.


b) What do I read? What do I feed on? Are these uplifting and inspirational?


c) Do I read Widely enough? The recent setting up a liberal arts college between NUS and Yale University is about the importance of Breadth in Thinking (flexibility and agility in thinking, ability to thrive in chaos and ability to think innovatively, strategically and systematically \u2014 80\/20 Principle).


d) Do I Reflect Deeply (depth)? Do I question what I read? Do I apply it to my own learning? Do I connect what I read to what\u2019s happening in life? Do I reflect often on what makes sense to me? Do I reflect on my own learning? Do I own and use a learning log? Am I self-aware of my talents, strength, passion and likewise, my weakness, shadows and fears? Do I do anything about them?


e) Do I Apply what I\u2019ve Learnt? Do I consciously set intentions and goals? Do I plan each day what I hope to achieve?


Out-side In <\/span>
Organisations that do not learn, unlearn and relearn constantly, run the risk of being extinct (like the dinosaurs or \u201cboiled frogs\u201d). Do I learn from \u2018Outside\u2019 \u2013 learning the best practices from the same as well as from diverse industries? We cannot be too complacent and be too arrogant to live in isolation and think \u201cI\u2019m My Position\u201d (one of the 7 Learning Disabilities).


In short, we must constantly keep ourselves and our organisations at the cutting edge an continue learning. This encompasses both Inside-out and then Outside-In Learning! Of course, the change must start from learning from ourselves (Inside-Out) i.e. Self-Awareness & Self-Management before we can learn from others (Outside-In).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The desire for self-improvement and self-fulfilment is what Maslow would call \u2018SelfActualisation\u2019. This quest for continuous improvement and learning is what Covey terms, \u2018Sharpening the Saw\u2019. In Learning Organisation, it is called \u2018Personal Mastery\u2019 or in John Maxwell\u2019s words, \u2018Raising the Lid\u2019. How can I do this? I propose 2 approaches to Learning: i) \u2018Inside-Out\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-effectiveness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifecoaching.sg\/LIFESCOOP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifecoaching.sg\/LIFESCOOP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifecoaching.sg\/LIFESCOOP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifecoaching.sg\/LIFESCOOP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifecoaching.sg\/LIFESCOOP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifecoaching.sg\/LIFESCOOP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/lifecoaching.sg\/LIFESCOOP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifecoaching.sg\/LIFESCOOP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifecoaching.sg\/LIFESCOOP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifecoaching.sg\/LIFESCOOP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}