157: Why It’s Essential to Struggle with Learning
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2014
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Do you find yourself struggling with changing your behavior? Real learning is hard, but keeps you from making the same mistake again.
I wrote this article a few months ago: Sorry, I Don’t Love Learning
Have you seen this scene in the Matrix?
I mentioned the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell*
Practical Advice
1. Ensure that it’s something important for you to learn
- I mentioned the book Soar With Your Strengths by Donald Clifton and Paula Nelson*
2. Get comfortable with being uncomfortable
- “When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.” -Zig Ziglar
3. Recognize that what you’ve been able to change your behavior on is really challenging for others
“Every single time I get on a plane I’m really glad that the plane is not being flown by someone who just always loved planes.” -A teacher quoted in Building A Better Teacher by Elizabeth Green*.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you find yourself struggling with changing your behavior? |
| 0:04.4 | Me too. |
| 0:06.4 | Today why that's okay and perhaps even the best way to learn. |
| 0:10.9 | This is coaching for, episode 157. |
| 0:14.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:19.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:26.0 | This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac. |
| 0:30.9 | This is a weekly coaching show to help us all be better leaders through improved communication, |
| 0:37.0 | human relations, and personal leadership, and that is the topic of our show today looking at how we change our behavior and why we often struggle with it. |
| 0:50.0 | And you know there's a lot coming in the coming weeks on this show. |
| 0:54.4 | There's four or five interviews already recorded. |
| 0:57.0 | I've got lots of wonderful guests and perspective for you in the coming weeks, |
| 1:01.0 | but I wanted to step back this week and look at where we are this |
| 1:06.8 | time of the year and for those of you listening to this at the time it airs it's |
| 1:11.8 | early September 2014 and this is the time of the year for a lot of us and a lot of parts of the world where |
| 1:21.2 | speed picks up again a lot. Kids go back to school in a lot of parts of the world. |
| 1:27.2 | Businesses tend to pick up their their you know work and work and agendas and tasks because everyone's finally done with summer vacations |
| 1:38.6 | for the most part, at least here in the Northern Hemisphere. |
| 1:41.8 | And, you know, it is just that kind of a time of year that a lot of us |
| 1:45.6 | are gearing up for a lot of work before the holidays hit just a couple months away I know |
| 1:50.9 | it's hard to believe and we all are juggling a lot I know I am |
| 1:55.3 | right now and it is also the time of year when a lot of people begin to think about |
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