Journaling for Learning
Written by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD, Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Copyright 1997-2008.
Description
One of the most critical skills to learn in life is the ability to learn from life. If you're like most of us, when you think of learning, you think of classrooms. This is probably true because you had learning in mind when you signed up for the classes, sat through their lectures and took their tests. Yet the most important things that you've learned in your life probably were not learned in a classroom. If you can go through life with learning in mind (as you did in your classes), then you can greatly expand your capacity for learning and living. This is the basic premise of continuous learning.One of the most powerful and highly accessible methods to learn how to learn is ongoing journaling. Many people seek journaling as means to learn more about themselves. They start journaling, but soon stop. Ironically, their journaling might have already taught them something very important about themselves: they want to learn, but they don't want to work to learn it! As with most important forms of learning, journaling takes some effort -- if only to write down for the day "I don't want to write anything today!"
One Simple Format for A Private, Learning Journal
Learning is often interpreted as enhancing your knowledge, understanding or perceptions or attitudes, or behaviors or skills.
1. What learning have you accomplished (or are you accomplishing) lately?
a) What experience spawned that learning?
b) What learning did you accomplish from that experience?
c) How can you carry this learning forward to improve your life? Your work?
2. What learning might you accomplish in the near future?
a) What experience might spawn that learning?
b) What learning might you accomplish from that experience?
c) How might you carry this learning forward to improve your life? Your work?
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The following books are recommended because of their highly practical nature and often because they include a wide range of information about this Library topic. To get more information about each book, just hover your cursor over the image of the book. A "bubble" of information will be displayed. You can click on the title of the book in that bubble to get more information, too.
Orienting and Training Employees
The following books are recommended because of their highly practical nature and often because they include a wide range of information about this Library topic. To get more information about each book, just hover your cursor over the image of the book. A "bubble" of information will be displayed. You can click on the title of the book in that bubble to get more information, too.
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