IN SEARCH OF COMPETENCE

Pileated woodpecker pecking for food and possibly a home... they chip out multiple locations in search of home

Learning is about becoming incompetent on our way to getting better.  If you’re not open to the tension that is caused by knowing you could do better, it’s unlikely you’re willing to do the work to get better.  As you’re doing that work, there’s the satisfaction it brings, but also the knowledge that just a moment ago, you weren’t any good.

FROM: Seth Godin’s Daily Blog.

REFLECTION:

  • Are you willing to try new things? 
  • How willing are you to risk being “incompetent” to learn?
  • Imagine the satisfaction from being able to do something that you thought you couldn’t or showed improvement by risk and action.
  • Try something new…