Better Insights, Better Results
One of the most effective ways I've found to save a lot of time and energy is using mentors. While nothing replaces experience, mentors can help guide you to the right experiences and avoid some unnecessary experiences. They can also help you make meaning from the experiences you have, by providing a new lens or vantage point.
Bloom's Taxonomy of learning domains is a map of learning levels. Bloom chunked learning into 3 domains: Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor (or thinking, feeling, and doing.) If you think of Bloom's Taxonomy as a map of learning domains and levels, you can use it to evaluate your expertise in a given topic. If you create or deliver training, you can also use Bloom's Taxonomy as a checklist for helping you structure and organize your training material.
Learning a new problem space can be a challenge. Especially when there's no map. While writing books for the past several years, I've learned a more effective approach for chunking up and solving problem spaces. Each new book is a new problem domain. I can't afford to churn or be inefficient while ramping up. I've basically learned how to get myself and my teams up to speed faster by using a process. This process has served me well. I hope it does the same for you.
I find chunking my notes from lectures and training helps me turn insights into action. I chunk them into three categories: actions, insights, and notes. This simple refactoring helps me quickly find the actions or my “ah has” without having to fish through a laundry list of reference points. I bubble these to the top so I can find them at a glance. The act of refactoring my notes also helps remind me of the most valuable parts, which is usually the new distinctions …
“All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.” — Martin H. Fischer Do you have a Growth Mindset or a Fixed Mindset? A Fixed Mindset is where you believe you are either good or you are not. It’s a static view. With a Fixed Mindset, you depend on innate ability, and you don’t …
