Hi, I'm Kevin Eikenberry, and I'm here
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Today, I'm urging you to stop
being an intermittent learner.
Are you ready?
Let's get started.
I bet you've never thought
about the fact that you are an intermittent learner,
but I bet you are, because it all started in school.
You know, school starts back to school.
We all go back to school to get started with school.
And then summer begins, school ends
and we're out of school and we're in our summer.
And then when we've done that a bunch of times, then we graduate
and we finish with school.
And maybe beyond that, more recently even, or after you finished some school,
we take classes and so we want to learn something.
So we take a class to learn it.
All of these things prove that we learn intermittently.
Now, we can certainly learn from these events.
There's nothing wrong with any of that, but it doesn't always
get us the results we want, so we should stop doing that.
We should stop being an intermittent learner, or at least
being only an intermittent learner instead
of being an intermittent learner.
We should be a continual learner which looks like this.
Read every day.
Read something
every day in an area that matters to you to make a difference for you.
Doesn't have to be a lot, but read something every day.
Watch or listen every day.
Maybe watching this is a good example of being a continual learner.
It's not really an event.
You're spending three or four or 5 minutes to get an idea,
to get an insight, to get you something to help you be more effective.
I want you to reflect every day, look back on what has happened
and what worked and what didn't, and spending 5 minutes reflecting on your day
will set you up to be more effective in all of your tomorrows.
And lastly, ask every day, ask curious questions of yourself.
Ask curious questions of those around you.
Ask others who have succeeded at something or who are better at something.
Then you ask every day.
Now I've just said four things. Read.
Watch and listen. Reflect and ask every day.
And you can say, Listen, I don't know how I can do all that every day.
I'm not saying you have to spend 30 minutes
doing each of these things every day.
But what I am saying is that we need to move past
thinking about that as a sense of being overwhelmed
and just created as a part of the cadence of our life.
A little
bit of reading, a little bit or listening or watching.
A little bit of reflecting, a little bit of asking.
We do those things and we are becoming a continual learner
rather than waiting for a chance to take a class.
Rather than waiting for the chance for someone to tell us
we can go to an event to be a better learner.
Stop being only an intermittent learner.
Let me close with today's tweet.
The best learners learn continually, not intermittently.
Events alone won't help you develop to your full potential.
Well, I hope you found this to be useful.
And if you did, you can come back for future episodes.
Hope you'll do that.
But I want to point you to
something that we're doing that at first might seem like an intermittent event.
It's called Virtual Leader Con, and you can learn more about this
at Virtual Leader Con Tor.com.
And if you're listening to this or watching this before September
the 20th of 2023, you had the chance to join us.
Now you don't have to join us for all of the two day event.
You can pick a session to join us as one of those every day learning events.
Or you can say, I want to take action on having all of it
available to me so that I can continue to learn from it over time.
Either way, I hope you'll take advantage of Virtual Leader Connect.
It's our gift to you.
You can attend completely for free.
Virtual Leader Connect. Com.
And if you missed the live event, still go there to learn more about
how we can help you on your ongoing learning journey.
Oh, we found this useful.
Hope you'll be back next week for another episode
of Remarkable TV and the Remarkable Leadership podcast.