Seth Godin on Learning:
Learn something new and difficult and valuable. Learn it today and continue learning it tomorrow.via Three simple and difficult steps by Seth Godin.
Showing posts with label Learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Learning. Show all posts
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Learning - Seth Godin (Tue 21 Mar 2017)
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Learning - Gina Trapani (Wed 22 Mar 2017)
Gina Trapani on Learning:
Doing is learning. Doing it badly? It’s still learning.via Modern JavaScript for Ancient Web Developers by Gina Trapani.
Monday, May 2, 2016
Learning - Eric Kim (Fri 29 Apr 2016)
to learn is to be alive. And to be alive is to createvia Never Stop Learning by Eric Kim.
Back two weeks now from a quick one week tour around Adelaide and the surrounding areas. Stunning ancient landscapes and expansive skies wherever you go. Awe inspiring and back here after some wandering. Thanks Eric.
Monday, November 16, 2015
On Writing - Sam Esmail / Karl Quinn (Fri 06 Nov 2015)
Sam Esmail on Writing:
write what you knowvia Mr Robot creator Sam Esmail: The revolution will be televised by Karl Quinn.
Often feel I really don't know, what I know, if that can make sense. And, maybe that is what I've been trying to do here the last six and half years - to find out more about myself, what I have experienced, felt, learnt and come to know.
As U2 sing in Beautiful Day:
What you don't know you can feel it somehow.One of my favourite lyrics ever. It describes who I am and why I behave the way I do, both in life and my random uncomfortable writings.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
On Figuring it Out - Jim Goldberg / Time Lightbox (Mon 24 Sep 2012)
Jim Goldberg (*) [via photographsonthebrain (*)] writes:
In order to figure this [..] stuff out, it’s trial and error and experimentation, and takes some time and hard thinking.Note to self: Shutter Speed, Focus, Focal Length and ISO.
A side note. Jim is working on:
A previously unpublished series titled Coming and Going is being reworked as a series of Japanese small books.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Learning ..
Hidden in one of Drew Ginn's recent Blog Posts is this little piece on pushing yourself, motivation, challenges and learning - something I have done a lot of over the last 8-9 months. Thought I would pull it out here so that I can remember this great little piece of writing. Here it is:
[..] I learned to ride my rhythm, to find my own groove and to sit on the knife edge with fatigue, discomfort and sweat surrounding, penetrating and leaving me. At no stage was it intense like a rowing race or a super burst of effort. It was an experience in sustaining a level of force which body and mind was saying, 'BACK OFF'.
Like some sinister and shadowy creator holding an emotional gun to my head. Tempting as it might have been I had committed to the 7 days and on the last to having a great ride with heaps of challenge.
You could say I learned what I have learned before and now I have been reminded of it again.
Stretching and challenging is healthy. It requires us to keep pushing and to keep seeking motivation for why we would continue on. Why I asked my self on more than one occasion during the 7 days. Even as I spent the day at back home yesterday I was still asking why.
Placing your self in a challenging situation forces the questions to be asked.
I did this by going to Tassie to train with a good friend.
To train in a way which would force the questions to come thick and fast and they did and with each and every moment which one appeared I toiled and churned it around to cultivate and see what I would learn about self, others and the World I am in.
Again I say why? To learn is the only answer which I could find. To Learn, but why? It gives life.
Maybe. It brings clarity. Not always. It energises, YES, but it can also be draining.
Why then would I do any of this? Why would you? To be challenged is something which for sometime now I have said is a reason for my motivation. Maybe challenge is not enough.
Challenge without the acknowledgment of the learning required and needed is only one side of the coin. What happens if every time we toss it and it only ever landed on the challenge side.
We might assume that is all there is. Every stage, moment, event, session, day, hour and minute if challenged we might eventually find little else but a sense of seeking something which never ends.
Flipping the coin, the moment, experience and our perception can bring light to the other side or even sides. Maybe less a coin and more a cube it is with multiple sides and perspectives. A cube like RUBIX which starts out perfect with all colours separated on each side.
Then with everyday the play, the games, and events acting to jumble the cube until we finally realise it is rearranged.
How we feel about that becomes essential and what we do with it becomes simple a challenge. From this rearranged state we might begin to work to find the form or the essence of this box or cube. Learning to work with it in what ever state jumble or un-jumbled becomes important I think. Living with and learning from it. The challenge of it, the frustration and the joy.
So there it is I have gone away for 7 days of challenge which was more about learning than anything else.
Orange Bike - Toulouse - Fri 25 Sep 2009
[..] I learned to ride my rhythm, to find my own groove and to sit on the knife edge with fatigue, discomfort and sweat surrounding, penetrating and leaving me. At no stage was it intense like a rowing race or a super burst of effort. It was an experience in sustaining a level of force which body and mind was saying, 'BACK OFF'.
Like some sinister and shadowy creator holding an emotional gun to my head. Tempting as it might have been I had committed to the 7 days and on the last to having a great ride with heaps of challenge.
You could say I learned what I have learned before and now I have been reminded of it again.
Stretching and challenging is healthy. It requires us to keep pushing and to keep seeking motivation for why we would continue on. Why I asked my self on more than one occasion during the 7 days. Even as I spent the day at back home yesterday I was still asking why.
Placing your self in a challenging situation forces the questions to be asked.
I did this by going to Tassie to train with a good friend.
To train in a way which would force the questions to come thick and fast and they did and with each and every moment which one appeared I toiled and churned it around to cultivate and see what I would learn about self, others and the World I am in.
Again I say why? To learn is the only answer which I could find. To Learn, but why? It gives life.
Maybe. It brings clarity. Not always. It energises, YES, but it can also be draining.
Why then would I do any of this? Why would you? To be challenged is something which for sometime now I have said is a reason for my motivation. Maybe challenge is not enough.
Challenge without the acknowledgment of the learning required and needed is only one side of the coin. What happens if every time we toss it and it only ever landed on the challenge side.
We might assume that is all there is. Every stage, moment, event, session, day, hour and minute if challenged we might eventually find little else but a sense of seeking something which never ends.
Flipping the coin, the moment, experience and our perception can bring light to the other side or even sides. Maybe less a coin and more a cube it is with multiple sides and perspectives. A cube like RUBIX which starts out perfect with all colours separated on each side.
Then with everyday the play, the games, and events acting to jumble the cube until we finally realise it is rearranged.
How we feel about that becomes essential and what we do with it becomes simple a challenge. From this rearranged state we might begin to work to find the form or the essence of this box or cube. Learning to work with it in what ever state jumble or un-jumbled becomes important I think. Living with and learning from it. The challenge of it, the frustration and the joy.
So there it is I have gone away for 7 days of challenge which was more about learning than anything else.
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