319: How to Never Stop Learning with Bradley R. Staats
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 10 July 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Bradley R. Staats discusses the essentials of dynamic learning, the best practices of a compelling learner, and the value of mistakes and asking questions.
You’ll Learn:
- The 4 elements of dynamic learning
- How we are our own worst enemy when learning
- How to reframe how you think about mistakes
About Bradley
Bradley R. Staats is the author of Never Stop Learning: Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive, and is an associate professor of operations at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan Flagler Business School. His research examines how individuals, teams, and organizations can learn to improve their operational performance to build a competitive advantage, integrating work in operations management and organizational behavior to clarify how and under what conditions individuals, teams, and organizations can learn at their best.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Sponsored message: ZipRecruiter is the smartest way to hire
- Book: Never Stop Learning by Bradley Staats
- Research: Sticking With What (Barely) Worked: A Test of Outcome Bias
- Research: Action bias among elite soccer goalkeepers: The case of penalty kicks
- Research: Making Experience Count: The Role of Reflection in Individual Learning
- Research: Commuting as Role Transitions: How Trait Self-Control and Work-related Prospection
- Offset Negative Effects of Lengthy Commutes
- Book: The Once and Future King by T.H. White
- Research: How Best-Self Activation Influences Emotions, Physiology and Employment Relationships
- Book: Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McChitis. |
| 0:16.4 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here |
| 0:21.0 | for episode 319 with Brad Stots. |
| 0:24.0 | Brad has some great perspectives to help reframe a couple things that might be holding you back |
| 0:28.8 | when it comes to learning and growing and improving all the time. |
| 0:32.3 | So you'll learn one, the four elements of dynamic learning. learning and |
| 0:35.0 | learning and growing improving all the time. Two, how we can often be our own worst enemy when learning |
| 0:39.0 | and three, how to reframe how you think about mistakes. |
| 0:42.0 | So if you've got to take a look at the show notes or the transcript or the... how to reframe how you think about mistakes. |
| 0:42.6 | So if you've got to take a look at the show notes or the transcript |
| 0:44.8 | or the links to items that we've referenced, |
| 0:46.6 | it's over at awesome at your job.com slash f-3-19. |
| 0:49.8 | And while at awesome at your job. |
| 0:51.6 | I encourage you to check out some of our nifty things. |
| 0:53.8 | One nifty thing is the 10 days to winning at work email course. |
| 0:57.4 | So if you'd like to slash an average of 80 plus minutes of waste |
| 1:01.7 | out of your work week, well, you can do so by getting 10 bite size |
| 1:05.4 | lessons sent right to your email box, one a day for 10 days. Now here's Brad's story. |
| 1:12.0 | Bradley R Stots is the author of Never Stop Learning. |
| 1:14.8 | Stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and thrive. |
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