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Reflection is the pivotal way we learn.
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The leader knows better than anyone that the fundamental problems of life are insoluble, but persists anyway, and continues to learn.
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Leaders learn by leading, and they learn best by leading in the face of obstacles.
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Adversity has a great deal to do with the development of leaders. Either it knocks you out or you become a bigger and better person. – Alfred Gottschalk
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Everywhere you trip is where the treasure lies. That’s learning from surprise, as well as adversity.
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The higher the stakes, the more opportunities there are for learning – and, of course, the more opportunities there are for failures and mistakes.
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…when we learn that a memory is wrong, we feel stunned, disoriented, as if the ground under us has shifted. It has made us rethink our own role in the story.
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None of us like learning that we were wrong, that our memories are distorted or confabulated, or that we made an embarrassing professional mistake.
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…marriage… forces couples to face themselves, to learn more about themselves and how they behave with an intimate partner than they ever expected (or perhaps wanted) to know.
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You keep the message separate from the messenger. In this way, we might learn how to change our minds before our brains freeze our thoughts into consistent patterns.
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