How To Create A Personal Learning Plan Leary

We might like to think nosotros are lifelong learners. But how do nosotros know if we're are really learning as much every bit we could be? In this episode we discuss how to create a hunger for learning and how to develop a personal learning plan.

This episode'southInspire Me quote is from Henry Ford:

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."

Nosotros tin push button ourselves to excel in every dimension of life. How exercise nosotros know, all the same, if we're learning more than than we did before? How do we know we are stretching ourselves, or settling at a plateau.

Leary ponders Proverbs 27:7, "He who is full loathes honey, but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet." Basically, it says at that place's not bad benefit to hunger. We can learn from even the worst situations. And there's an implied danger to exist "full." In that condition, we won't even learn from the best of circumstances ("beloved"). As Armin noted, that's pride—and it goes before the fall.

So how exercise we increase our hunger? As with our hunger for food, nosotros tin can either lower our intake and starve ourselves (not ideal), or increase our metabolism with exercise. That means nosotros put ourselves on a program of intentional learning.

Leary drew a contrast betwixt, what he called, intentional learning and utilitarian learning:

Intentional Learning	Utilitarian Learning
Interest-driven	Needs-driven
Regularly washed	Advert hoc
Mostly wide scope	Mostly narrow scope
Longer duration	Shorter elapsing
Multipurpose; unclear purpose	Singular purpose

Neither is better than the other. We need both. The challenge is to non let today's urgencies trump learning intentionally.

And then how do you create a personal learning plan. That's the Challenge Me for this episode. Leary shares the approach he's taking. First, create a document and split up your plan into iii sections, or areas of learning:

Interests/Curiosities Areas of learning to stimulate your creativity. Think of these as your artistic walkabouts.
Professional development Areas of learning that can raise your career, but, for which you are not looking for an firsthand answer.
Personal evolution Areas of learning to enhance your spiritual, relational, physical, and fiscal condition.

In each department answer the three questions:

What sources of curriculum volition I employ? They could be books, magazines, blogs, videos, online course, formal courses, coaching, even education.
What commitments will I make? Prepare a timetable for going through a chosen curriculum.
What is a satisfactory measure of completion? What does graduation expect like in your learning plan? How will you celebrate information technology?

The keys to intentional learning are to have a plan, create the space and habits necessary to support it, and to capture cardinal learnings from it.

Resources mentioned or related to this podcast that may exist helpful to you:

Read Slowly to Benefit Your Brain and Cut Stress, Wall Street Journal, September 16, 2014
How to be a better beginner, Episode five of Reinventure Me outlines v unproblematic things to stretch your learning
Why y'all should be a lifelong apprentice, Episode 7 of Reinventure Me share 4 reasons to stretch your learning through apprenticeship
How to create habits for your adjacent great offset,Episode 21 of Reinventure Me volition help yous remember virtually the best way to beginning a habit
How reading can pb to your side by side great commencement, Episode 23 of Reinventure Me discusses half dozen benefits of reading the former-fashioned style
Leary'due south Personal Learning Programme, Leary'due south take-abroad activeness from the Challenge Me segment for this episode
Armin'southward Personal Learning Program, Armin's accept-abroad activeness from the Challenge Me segment for this episode