Damm if it was done like this we would have not wasted blah blah blah
I wasted X years of my life in school
and what not.... I am sure you may have encountered these lines few or many times a day or week or month or whenever.... but something that can change these lines is the attitude within you that somehow we ignore... Yes I am talking about the learning attitude... Well you might end up saying I am a curious A** so I want to learn everything... but just go back a few years and count how many times you have used a word *waste*... A recent incidence and something that happened a few weeks ago just got me to write more about this... I would like your opinion on a few words said by different people here and then we can talk about the Learning attitude...
I think everything that is coming to me is a new learning for me... so whichever Technology or Project I work on is going to be the Best for Me -- Seetha
I think I wasted all this time on been this project... I have learnt No new thing -- Some One I dont want to disclose
Recently Ahh... I got a complete different requirement but anyways I dont think my work is a waste cause I learnt how to mount a NFS on a windows box for a linux machine -- Phil
Before I could waste more of my time doing this I think I should walk off -- Someone recently
Well so all of this teaches me that their is a breed in the world who knows and thinks that everything that they do is going to add something to their knowledge and is going to be a valuable earning for them and there is another breed that thinks that something that is not known is only learning... be it Technology or any other thing.... Which one do you think you gonna get on? For me obviously it should be the former .... and why not... Project Management teaches me new thing everyday.. one way or the other... been a father teaches me a new thing every day, playing a husband teaches me to make different excuses to keep awake late and work or watch TV ;) new learnings everyday.... So for those whom who think that ONLY that thing is a learning which they did not knew then their age is not enough to identify what they have to learn....
So here a few tips to those who really want to be on the side of learn from everything that comes to you...
1. Be Curious
2. Be Inquisitive
3. Listen and think to what others say
4. Question them not for the sake but to know why they say what they say
5. Confusion is a mother-in-law of failure.... either is bad without the other
Hope you learn something from this post ;)
I have to agree with this classification.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, there are very few people who look at what they've learnt from any 'so-called' waste of time activity.
Not being a very good manager, I usually leave such persons sinking in their self pity. I've found it very frustrating to try and help them out of it, because usually for most of them, everything is a waste of time.