OK, confession time. My hardest habit, often, is Habit 4: Have confidence in yourself as a competent, effective learner. Of course it depends on what I'm trying to learn, but some things feel too hard to even attempt, don't they? I mean I can figure out to start a blog, but can't imagine that I would ever be able to learn to draw. Never got past stick figures. I've read that anyone can learn to draw, and maybe that's so, but I suspect that's where the confidence factor comes in.
The good news is that confidence can be built. I would have never dreamed a year ago that I could learn some of the things these quests are built around, so maybe there's hope?
Easiest habit? Habit 3: View problems as challenges. Something that's come with working in libraries for so long. I had a boss that used to say, " I have an opportunity for you." Code for, here's a hard one. I used to laugh and hate hearing that, but I came to see that he was right. It does help to try to see things that way, even though that's often the biggest part of the challenge, isn't it?
No comments:
Post a Comment