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By: Productivity advice from the sage — Internet Time Blog | Training Blog

Productivity advice from the sage — Internet Time Blog | Training Blog — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:46:28 +0000

[...] in my continuing quest for a handle to describe the learning aspects of getting things done. (See Learning is not enough or Clark Quinn’s Beyond Learning.) I’m struggling to come up with a term that [...]

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Productivity advice from the sage — Internet Time Blog — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:03:47 +0000

By: Brainwave Entrainment

Brainwave Entrainment — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:14:46 +0000

I totally agree with this, you have presented it very clearly! In much the same light, I’ve always felt there is a vast different between being knowledgeable and intellectual. Wouldn’t it be great if the education systems began to take all of this into consideration?

Sally

By: Ken Allan

Ken Allan — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:34:25 +0000

Kia ora Jay!

I take it all back. I’ve just found the definitive . . . by Shelley Gare, ‘The Triumph of the Airheads’, Park Press, 2007.

It explains it all, and you’re right! “If you’re smart, be smarter: play dumb.”

Ka kite anō
from Middle-earth

By: Laurie

Laurie — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:40:20 +0000

I always thought the model should have back and forth to the learning. I know my behaviors are best changed when the learning takes place over time as I access it as needed.

By: Ken Allan

Ken Allan — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:15:50 +0000

Kia ora e Jay!

An interesting posit, that “learning is a necessary but insufficient condition for working smarter.”

I was introduced to the necessary shift to ‘work smarter not harder’ in the early 90s. Before that we had been told that working harder was what was needed.

Now the quality of that smartness isn’t cutting the mustard, you say, because learning isn’t enough. I say you’ve got it partly wrong.

What’s happened is that we’ve been conning ourselves into believing that working smarter is all that is needed. In the interim, some of us have forgotten what learning was also required to work hard – and learning (good habits) is needed for that; the alternative is laziness. As well, some of us rested on our laurels during times when working smarter was indeed all that seemed to be needed.

We now have to work harder AND work smarter, for just working smarter is no longer enough. So some of us have to learn how to work harder (the getting things done that you refer to) while continuing to learn other things so that we can also work smarter.

There’s a pattern emerging here.

Catchya later
from Middle-earth