I find myself coming back to learning again and again these days. Some people say that planning is learning. Some say that change is learning and learning is change. Some say that the meaning of life itself is to learn. I’ve used learning as one of 6 core values that changes a good job into a great job in my new project, projekt arbejdsglæde.

So if learning is so important, then teaching must be equally important, so here’s an article with some good tips on how to teach. And we’re all teachers to some extent, especially leaders.

It’s great stuff. I especially like the deep respect for the student/pupil. I’m thinking that you can’t really teach anybody anything. You can create a situation that allows people to learn – which can be vastly different.

There’s a very important talent, a discipline, that is almost totally ignored these days: Silence and solitude.

We’re talkers. We speak, argue, discuss, put forth. We seem to express ourselves mostly by what we do and say, and we measure others by the same yardstick. But there is a value in silence and solitude that I think we’re forgetting. Being alone with your own thoughts allows you to learn something about yourself and your current situation that you might miss if you’re always talking and doing.

I hade the privilege of trying 48 hours of silence last year, and it was a beatiful and terrifying experience. Two days with no TV, nothing to read, noone to talk to, no phones, no internet, no nothing. Or actually nothing but nothing. Two days with plenty of time to slow down and discover what went on inside my head.
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