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No. 29 - Get a learning habit. It is easy to neglect professional, career, and personal development. It is easy to drift along and assume we are picking up the new knowledge, skills and habits necessary to be the chosen one, or get the assignment we want, or win a competitive piece of business. In the closing stages of a decision that affects our future, it is usually too late to learn a new trick, find a new edge, or change the course of consequence. See below for development suggestions that are easy to adopt.
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in Reading More on No. 29 Eleven practical ways to gain some development momentum: 1. Scare yourself. Look up a University course curriculum aligned with your expertise. The longer you have been out of full time education, the less you will recognise. Even if you have just finished the course, you are likely to find that new students are studying new things. 2. Scare yourself some more. Assume that half of everything you know about your area of expertise will be useless within two years. This is especially true for those selling complex things to businesses. Even if things aren't changing this fast in your space just yet, assume they will be soon. In some disciplines, the half-life of know-how is less than a year. 3. Scare yourself some more. Find out how many people in your discipline are graduating from Universities in India and China each year. The world is flat. If they can't do what you do from where they are, it is easy for the best amongst them to come and work in your neighbourhood. 4. Scared enough yet? If you are ready to commit a little more time to development, then put it in your diary and make it a 'must do' high priority. Even five minutes a day will make a difference. Five minutes a day would be 152 hours or 19 days of learning a year. 5. Make it a habit. If you schedule a regular study or practice session, discipline yourself to fulfil your commitment at least 21 times. It takes about 21 sessions for the activity to become a habit and once you are used to doing it, it will be easier to continue than stop. 6. Start reading the best books related to your area of expertise. If you hate reading, commit to read just five pages a day. Instead of or as well as reading, listen to the authors read their own books. Many of the best books have been made available as audio titles. 7. Make use of dead time. You can listen to audio titles while walking, driving, exercising, gardening, and doing chores. Load up your ipod or mp3 player with the best material you can find. 8. Do some internet research to find out who writes the best ezines on your speciality and sign up for them. You may not have time to read them all however, if you don't get them you wont read any of them. 9. Learn to read faster. It is easier than you think. Especially when you are looking just for new things that you don't already know about. You can buy or attend speed-reading and photo reading courses. You can buy books and audio programmes. With a little patience, you can find the information online, for free. 10. Set yourself SMART development objectives. Specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time bound. Decide what you will learn and by when. 11. Keep a learning record. Write down headings to represent the things you learn and re visit your log regularly. Doing so will freshen your memory. After a while you will own the learning.
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