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Learners and Knowers

I read recently that legendary basketball star, Michael Jordan, once said, “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted with the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

When we fail we have two choices,

  1. We can complain about how unfair the world is and play the role of victim, or
  2. We can ask, “What am I meant to learn from this? What is the message? How can I use this to help me grow?

When someone presents us with an opinion with which we disagree, or judges us harshly, we have the same two choices: complain and play the hurt victim (our wounded ego speaking), or pause and seek the hidden insight behind the remarks.

Carl Jung once said, “Thinking is difficult.  That’s why people judge.”

Do you choose to learn from your failures? Or do you choose to judge yourself for failing? When you are criticized or faced with an opinion with which you disagree, does your ego cause you to push back and defend your position, or do you say, “Tell me more, I want to learn”? The difference is between an open mindset and a closed one; between being a “knower” versus a “learner”.

Are you a knower or a learner?

Learners and Knowers

Learners and Knowers

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