LEARN ON THE FLY

  Growth doesn’t get started until YOU do…You must move….take action…mobilize yourself.

It may sound easy enough on the surface.  But people get ‘paralyzed’ by planning.  They freeze up by just getting ‘prepared’ to grow.  This occurs because we want to figure out the answer BEFORE we begin working on the problem.   We like to do our learning First, then put it into action.

Faster career growth calls for a more freewheeling approach.  It calls for learning AS you go, not BEFORE you go. 

Getting ‘ready’ often gives a person the feeling of progress, but it’s usually a delaying tactic that gets in the way of growth.   Getting “growing” is what puts you further down the road.    All you really need is the willingness to move.

If you want to see how this works, just plop a kid down in front of a computer—or behind the wheel of a car.  The young child has little patience for ‘learning’ before getting started.   Kids just want to ‘go for it’.  They use an action-based strategy of learning as they go.  And that enables them to master the machine much quicker than most adults who are also starting from scratch. 

Active pursuit of your personal development goals provides a steady stream of feedback.  Actually doing things---trying out different approaches—gives you hard data on what works and what doesn’t.  Mobility is the secret.  Constant movement keeps you supplied with fresh answers.  Forward motion feeds you new insights.

Of course-- allowing yourself to learn on the fly carries a price: You must also become more willing to make mistakes.  More trials mean you can expect more errors.  Going forward before you have everything figured out generates a potentially higher failure rate.

But here’s the payoff—it’s in the Learning Curve.   Forward motion offers the fastest education you can find!