Reflective Practitioner

The price of greatness is responsibility (Winston Churchill); we all have the responsibility to learn. If we are open to others, there is always something we can learn.

Are you a learner? Early in my ministry journey, I heard someone say that you could tell when a person stopped learning by looking at the copyright dates in their library. It’s an interesting reality; of course, today we have podcasts, DVD’s and lots of seminar options which didn’t exist 20 years ago!

Even so, the truth is that once we stop learning we're toast.

A great quote that shows this reality is from Jeff Rosenberg, Senior VP, Product Management at Google:

“Keep on challenging yourself, because learning doesn't end with graduation. In fact, in the real world, while the answers to the odd-numbered problems are not in the back of the textbook, the tests are all open book, and your success is inexorably determined by the lessons you glean from the free market. Learning, it turns out, is a lifelong major.”