I loved watching TV and movies as much as anyone else. My childhood was spent with Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse and as I grew older we threw in a little Charles In Charge and Facts of Life. Add to that a few years later with The Wonder Years and more. Now I look forward [...]
The beginning of 2008 has been a strange year for me. Every year, every person I know sets New Years Resolutions. Within two weeks, no one is talking about them anymore because they have all failed. This goes for me as well.
This year, I wasn’t going to set have resolutions, I was setting for [...]
Today Darren Rowse from ProBlogger wrote a post he called “Don’t Just Have a Blog – Learn to Think Like a Blogger”. Well, actually, he wrote it tomorrow since he writes from Australia. But anyway – as a beginning blogger, this post was invaluable.
He was talking about how, in trying to get/staying fit, but [...]
Yesterday Bill Gates wrote an article about the skills you need to succeed. His main point was on the value of ongoing learning.
I also place a high value on having a passion for ongoing learning. When I was pretty young, I picked up the habit of reading lots of books.
It’s great to read widely about [...]
Our lives are overflowing with information. Everywhere we look we are being screamed at by all sorts of media: books , movies, magazines, blogs, podcasts, newspapers, TV shows, and much more.
At some point we have to make a decision about what to do with it all. We have to either turn it off and throw it away, ignoring it all because we can't take anymore. Or we have to sort the wheat from the chaff, figure out what it is telling us, consider what we can learn from it, and implement that practices that can make us better.
Lernr is about that process of learning what we can from different sources and applying it to our lives.
The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
~ Mark Twain