Lessons Beyond the Classroom

I was blessed to be taught that working hard and being brave enough to take risks has a high level of reward. School taught me how to “play the game,” but never actually helped me retain knowledge longer than a year or so. Most of my retained learning came from wanting to do the work, learning how to do the work through motivation, and doing the work enough to want to be more effective at it.

That looked like:

• Reading books I thought were interesting
• Watching others
• Formulating my own ideas and presenting them
• Doing enough to get caught being wrong
• Finding 100 ways not to do something
• External pressures forcing me to grow