The Greatest Teacher – Listening – Part 5

Contrary to popular belief, experience is not the best teacher, Examined Experience is. And the Greatest Teacher of all is Someone Else’s Examined Experience.

When we take the time to learn from someone else’s experience, we position ourselves to glean essential life & leadership lessons in a great way. Here’s how:

1. Examine Someone Else’s Experience. Take the time to listen to the story, the emotion, the lead in & the follow up to the story.

2. Learn from it. Don’t just listen to it, review it later during some alone time.

3. Apply it to your life. Draw parallels from their experience to your own.

4. Commit to not ever learn that same lesson again. The test of greatness is not having to learn a lesson twice! If someone else goes through the pain, heartache and agony to learn a lesson, we disrespect them to have to learn it again because we didn’t apply their lesson to our life.

Each one of us have access to the greatest teacher on earth. Someone Else’s Examined Experience.

Who do you need to listen to and learn from today?

Just a bloggish thought,

Matt