Post India and back in the throws of real life I find myself with a lovely new home, a satisfying new job, a legal battle and my favourite bottle of fireworks that is my emotional life. I learned so much in India: what I needed, how to balance my mind and as I am finding out ...how to evade myself!
Last week I found myself amongst 80 truly global colleagues in Lisbon, Portugal at a conference targetted at "performance". I dutifully partook in the workshops, finding an inner resiliance that broke through my cold, nausea and general flatness to ensure that nobody took my lack of energy as a sign of me being "just another buyer". I also absorbed two sessions by British speaker/trainers.
Little alcohol passed my poorly lips on "party night" so I was attentive and aware of both speakers. The majority of my co-pros were only enamoured with the second speaker; a vigourous, creativity-inspiring chap who I'd seen before at a Risk event in Cambridge, however, I think they missed a trick. Speaker number one talked repeatedly about the simple value of reflective learning.
Reflective learning is at the core of what I have become. India gave me the chance to put my regular adult life (built of mistakes and successes) under the microscope, it allowed me to study those parcels of experience and to understand the lessons that were wrapped up in them. All work is, is a microcosm of life and speaker number one's message (received by those who were neither too hung over nor too arrogant to take it on) had the potential to be supremely performance enhancing. In order to maintain and capture my own reflective learning, I have created "Learning Space".
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Little alcohol passed my poorly lips on "party night" so I was attentive and aware of both speakers. The majority of my co-pros were only enamoured with the second speaker; a vigourous, creativity-inspiring chap who I'd seen before at a Risk event in Cambridge, however, I think they missed a trick. Speaker number one talked repeatedly about the simple value of reflective learning.
Reflective learning is at the core of what I have become. India gave me the chance to put my regular adult life (built of mistakes and successes) under the microscope, it allowed me to study those parcels of experience and to understand the lessons that were wrapped up in them. All work is, is a microcosm of life and speaker number one's message (received by those who were neither too hung over nor too arrogant to take it on) had the potential to be supremely performance enhancing. In order to maintain and capture my own reflective learning, I have created "Learning Space".
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