Human beings are all lifelong learners and always have been. In terms of this programme (yes damn it I will spell the "English" English way, you can throw as many red squiggly lines under "programme" as you like) the hardest Step would be step 1 "Begin with the End in Mind". This is difficult because, left to my own devices, I would learn things as required, or as they piqued my interest, so the end would be quite clear. Before we start to learn anything new, we need to ask ourselves, "why am I prioritising learning this?"
I suppose with 23 Things, the goal is to keep up with the programme and learn about things I didn't even know existed, with the idea that they will be useful later on as a librarian.
The easiest step would appear to be "play", however, in a culture that values time as money, this could also be quite difficult, in terms of allocating time to do so. Genuinely useful and innovative things do not come into fruition in times of "deadlines" and stress, but when we are just "messing about".
The easiest step would be step 2, Accept responsibility for your own learning, because I always have and I find it very enjoyable to learn new things; the human brain gets sleepy without new subject matter!
Toolkit Shopping List:
1) Headphones
2) Enthusiasm
3) Time
1 comment:
I think enthusiasm is a very useful thing to have in your toolkit. I think that with this, you should be able to sort out the other challenges just fine.
It's the wanting to do it that makes people able to do new and different things, I think.
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