Learning is an active activity, and experience is only a great teacher if you invest the time and effort to learn from it. That means that you have to take time to ask yourself tough questions and wrestle with the answers. Then you have to change your behavior going forward.
Some great questions to ask in order to learn from your experiences are:
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- What went wrong?
- What did I do wrong?
- Why did I decide to do that?
- What information did I not have (or did I ignore) that would have helped me make a better decision?
We have pre-digested information thrown at us all day every day. Learning from your own experience requires unplugging from the data flow and thinking your own thoughts. It requires a bit more effort, but offers greater rewards.
- Randy Miller, Journyx Director of Services