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Good morning, Team
Learning is very simple.
The best definition I’ve heard is this:
Same stimulus. Different response.
That’s it.
You touch something hot.
It burns you.
Next time you see it…
you don’t touch it.
You’ve learned.
The same thing shows up everywhere else.
You’re on a sales call. The customer/client asks a question.
You answer in a way that doesn’t lead to a sale.
Someone more experienced says,
“Next time they ask that, try replying like this.”
Next call comes.
Same question.
Different response.
That’s learning.
Once you start thinking about it like this, you realise learning is happening all the time.
Every day.
Every hour.
There’s the traditional kind: textbooks, theory, studying.
Then there’s self-development learning.
This mostly comes from:
- Practice
- Experience
- Listening to someone who has elevated status in said subject
When you’re younger, it mostly happens unconsciously.
As you get older, it becomes more deliberate. You start actively trying to improve things you care about.
Running.
Work.
Health.
Life in general.
But here’s the interesting part.
Often, we don’t learn at all.
We listen. We nod. We agree. We think that’s a great point.
Then the next time the exact same situation appears… we respond exactly the same way.
Same stimulus. Same response.
The internet is full of brilliant people saying brilliant things.
Podcasts.
Books.
YouTube.
Most of us enjoy hearing it.
But very few people actually change their behaviour when the moment comes again.
There are several podcasts I’ve listened to that have completely changed my life…
apart from the part where I actually change anything.
So now I try to watch for those moments.
When life presents the same situation again.
The same choice.
The same opportunity.
The same challenge.
The question becomes simple:
Will my response be different this time?
If it is, that’s learning.
Everything else is just entertainment.
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