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Chances were good I would’ve tried more bungee cords to wrap the cages to the post, but when my wife shared her observation on the whole conflict, things turned from defensive posturing to a more offensive outlook. She said, “Looks like your possum is kicking your butt, sweetie!” At that point, it was game on!
<Humor Alert> Life’s lessons seem to come across my path when stupid hits a high point. This is a true fishing story where stupid ran amok and granted me a couple of huge learning moments. </Humor Alert>
Over the next minutes or so I learned that a fat man with wheels on his feet; three degrees of incline; and gravity was a recipe for disaster. Self-confidence eliminated any need to consider those ingredients as potentially dangerous. This was a clear case on not knowing what I did not know. I think that’s called unconscious incompetence. I was wrapped in the comfort of not knowing what was going to happen.
<Humor Alert> Once again the craving to examine learning has taken a turn toward the humorous. This is another true story about the truth that can only be taught from the hearts of family when a dash of duress gets mixed into what turned out to be a learning moment. </Humor Alert>
I stumbled across an untitled draft from June of 2012 (T+14 years ago), and the knee-jerk reaction was to blow it up and return to writing fiction thrillers. Some might call that a distracting, crazy, demented, ADHD moment. That may be …but it’s my crazy, and I’m still not in jail. As my finger hovered […]
<God Alert:>This piece is not my usual rant about some aspect of corporate learning. It still is about learning, but is tagged for the Learning About Living side of the Living in Learning blog. Some might ask, “Why combine something like this in a corporate learning blog?” I in turn would ask, “How can God […]
Who among us have resisted the urge to pass a finger through the flame of a candle? I certainly recall warnings that fire equals hot equals burn equals pain. Were you warned? I am sure you were, and yet, we all had to learn what hot meant by taking the risk, ignoring the sincere warning of one who had already made that same mistake. Is that a weakness? A flaw? Or is it just part of growing up? Unfortunately, as we leave childhood and pass into and through our teen years, risks are not as benign and simple as candles, and often the stakes are much higher…as are the flames.
Is learning always about improving one’s self? On the windward side of 50 years of age, I would argue it’s not…and…I would argue it is never too late to learn. This post is the first in a new section of Living in Learning. It is dedicated to Learning About Living. For our teenagers’ sake, some of us may have almost as much to learn as they do about living.