147: Master These 11 Skills That AI Will Never Replace | Learning Agility

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2025 is here and the pace of change has never been fasterare you ready to thrive in a world where AI accelerates

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everything but can't replace the most essential human skillsthat's why we've created a special 11p part series on the

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learn itall podcast to help you master the skills needed toFuture proof yourself and your career from self-awareness to listening and

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developing trust these are the traits that will make youirreplaceable in an Ever evolving Workforce I'm Damon lby

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CEO of learn it and two-time bestselling author and I'll beyour throughout the series joining me is Dr Mickey Fitz

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Workforce capabilities drawing from Insight from theirsurvey of over 28,000 professionals we'll unpack 11 skills in

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let's dive into today's top skill our skill that we'retalking about today is learning agility and I really believe

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and I say this on podcast all the time and to the customersI really believe that learning agility could be the

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number one most important skill for today and in the futureso today what

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I'd like to do is have you explain what learning agility isand why it's important

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um and I know that you're also going to share three actionsto take to be a more agile learner so let me just turn it

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over to you yeah yeah right on Damon yeah thank you and yeahI'm super excited to talk about this topic as as

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you'll hear me mention you know I'm sure I'll tell a storyyou know of I uh you know the opportunity to nerd out about

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nerdiness right but um learning agility we oftentimes hearthat word agility or

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agile and we think about like physical fitness or maybe wethink about project management and like the agile style

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really but what we're talking about with learning agilitythis is one of the top skills as you mentioned top skills that

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any professional any industry can exhibit on the day-to-dayto be more successful in their career and

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essentially what agility is is it's about anticipatingchanges Trends working yourself towards them so

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learning building skills retooling yourself Reinventingyourself instead of

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doing what I think a lot of people do which is kind of likeprotect themselves or defend themselves away from that

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change and so agility is about leaning forward and um reallyconnects quite a bit actually to growth mindset and you

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know learning agility as you mentioned is super important umyou know I mean I think about even our our motto at learn

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it companies grow when their people do right you know theorganizations that are successful these days are the ones

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that are investing in their learning from the top all theway down to the bottom and everywhere in between and

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it's it's super critical because our worlds and our ways ofoperating and our ways of doing business are rapidly

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changing and so if we're not learning if we're not keepingup with that if we're not adapting our businesses are over

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with right the skills that we had that were amazing andawesome skills five or 10 years ago may not even be relevant

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skills anymore and you know Damon it's it's really scary andand I don't know

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it's dangerous to me when I see these organizations thatmaybe they're going through I mean there's a lot of companies that are goingthrough tough

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Economic Times right now it is a challenging economy butit's very scary to me when I see organizations that are

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like oh we don't have um we don't have Learning andDevelopment here we cut that out of the budget or um you know

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we're not we're not engaging in in professional conferencesand learning it just costs too much and my response is

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always like how do you actually put a dollar amount on theability for your employees to learn and grow to keep the

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success of your organization alive so I'm really excited totalk about this and like you said I have three action

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steps um that I can share um with you um but I can alsoshare share a little bit of a couple of stories or something if

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we want to go from there well let's start off with a couplestories about

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learning agility and I'm happy to share some as well andthen we'll dive right into the three action steps yeah yeah

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that sounds good you know um when I was thinking about thistopic Damon it it made me think about a book that I know

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is one of your favorite books and one of my favorite booksin fact our first conversation I don't know if you remember this but our firstconversation

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that you and I ever had um I call it a conversation itdidn't feel like an interview but we talked about one of my favorite bookswhich is Ryan holidays

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the obstacle is the way and it was published 10 years agonow which is crazy um we did a book club on it last

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year at learn and one of the things in that book Theobstacle is way the title comes from Marcus aelius um one of the

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ancient Greek stoics right talking about essentially thatthe things that look like they're they're problems in our

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Pathways become the action forward that we need to takeright and and I think about that is such a perfect

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encapsulation and and ever since I read that book 10 yearsago that has become such a a personal motto or ideology of

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if something looks like a problem smells like a problemtastes like a problem touches like a problem it looks like an

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obstacle it's the thing that I need to learn to work throughum I think for a lot of folks these days that maybe is AI

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um that could be different technology systems different waysof doing business certainly four years ago a lot of people

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learning how to work in a work from home virtual environmentbut this is the path forward and you know I I also think

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about for me the big game changer about learning agility umI'm I'm sure that you read this book I'm sure many of our

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listeners have as well too Malcolm Gladwell is the TippingPoint um which I had to look that up that came out in

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2000 which is nuts right like that feels like it just cameout a couple years ago but 24 years ago good old Malcolm

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Gladwell um and he talked about the types of influencerswithin organizations and this connects so much

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to learning agility um one of those types of influencersthat he talked about are information mavens and these

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are people who love to gather up a ton of of information andwhat they do is they help transform and re and and

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reinvent themselves and influence those people around themand that to me is such a perfect definition of learning

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agility I think for me it changed my thought of myself as anerd or geeky or

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something like that to I'm an influencer with action and forme learning about

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information mavens learning about learning agilityabsolutely has been one

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of the keys to my success over the last 20 plus years is myability to learn and influence grow has allowed me to do the

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things that I've been able to do in my career so learningagility is absolutely the gas in the fuel tank for many

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individuals and organizations so um Mickey can you give mean example of

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like you just mentioned that learning has helped you grow inyour career do you have anything that stands out

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specifically yeah I mean I think about something as simpleas YouTube um you know I I anywhere from fixing a broken

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refrigerator to to um you know identify my my early learningum before there

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were courses and workshops about AI stuff I think for bothof us was watching a whole bunch of YouTube videos

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and kind of seeing who's out there talking about whateverand the what I love about that is that you can go out

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to a place like YouTube or something and and just look forother people like you

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that are talking about the topic that you're interested inand people are genuinely interested in sharing their

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knowledge and that has been transformational for me I I'velearned learned so much from different folks that uh function in my role as a

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facilitator or trainer um that has completely changed theway that I think about the work that I do and these

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aren't folks that you know I've not met them in real lifebut again learning agility is about kind of looking at

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opportunities to sponge up information in all sorts ofdifferent Corners so Mickey let's look at it from the reverse

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let's say you're like in my book I like to refer to learn italls versus know-it-alls if you're a know-it-all and

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you're not open to learning what what are the downsides whatcould happen to you as an individual in your career

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yeah yeah the picture that I just got in my head Damon issomebody who's kind of painted into a corner kind of backed

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into a corner um I think for for certain periods of time wecan be relevant and

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subject matter experts on something but if we don't continueto engage in learning and be willing to be flexible

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and and Gumby and nimble like right um what we do is is weback ourselves into a corner and we close ourselves off and

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and those are the folks when I look around at at people thatI know these are the folks that aren't accelerating

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in their careers these are the organizations that aren'tgrowing in the way that they wanted to and I think so

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much of that comes from people's you know I don't need tolearn any new stuff right I'm mid-career I know everything

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that I need to know I'm a vice president to fill in theblank well the problem with that is that people see learning as

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a oneandone sort of activity instead of being you know anagile learner and seeing this as a this is something we do

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every single day of the week no I I think that's great andyou know obviously you and I are on the same page

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one aha moment for me really was when I was about I'm 52 nowand so when I was

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about 38 I've always been a big book reader I you know Ikind of emulated my dad he was a big book reader I was about

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38 years old and I was thinking to myself why am I doing allthis reading and studying and and everything and is

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there really that much more to learn um is it make that muchof a difference and then I came across that great Gandhi

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quote which was Live Like You Will Die Tomorrow learn likeyou will live forever and I really for some reason

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stuck with me and I I just went I just accelerated mylearning from there and I

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I got up to about 40 books a a year and um but one of thethings I want to add

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you know for our listeners out there and we're going to getinto the three steps in a second but we had this guest on the show David Katzand one of my favorite

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quotes of all time is learning without doing is treason soit's one thing to to

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learn but you also got to find a ways to to process it andexecute it but let's

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start off with the learning part what are the three actionsthat an individual can take to be a more agile learner yeah

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absolutely and I love that story and and I love that that uhyou know that uh interview that you had with David that

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has been um a real ideology that I've taken on recently formyself as well and um you know these three action steps

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Amon that I'm going to share with you they're going to startfrom the individual perspective but they're going

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to um the pathway forward is to the organizational piece andso I encourage everybody who's listening and watching

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to think about what does this mean for me but what does thismean for us and in the organization or organizations you're

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part of um the first step that I encourage people to do andI use this word sponge right because that gives us

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such a good visual but you think about a sponge sponging upLiquid sponge up new information wherever you can right the

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traditional thing that a lot of folks think is reading booksright and you and I both incredibly Avid readers audio

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books physical books whatever it might be um you you knowspending a lot of time on AI tools and doing queries right

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oh my gosh you can go down like very deep rabbit holes umwith your different queries you know LinkedIn um I love

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different talk radio shows you know YouTube videos all thissort of stuff the thing that I always tell people

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though is that you need to schedule this in and beintentional about it you can't see learning as this tack on add-on when

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I have some time sort of thing um these earbuds that I'mwearing um are very small and Nimble I keep them in my

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pocket all the time and the reason for that is I never knowwhen I might have an opportunity to listen to five or 10

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minutes of the audiobook that I'm working on or the podcastthat I'm working through right or you know downloading stuff so that when Idon't

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have data service when I'm out walking in the woods orsomething like that um if I don't want to listen to the birds I can listen tomy podcast right but I

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have to schedule it into my calendar you have to beintentional about that there's very few people that just have

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time to sit back and read in a quiet sort of space right youand I both have young kids there's no such thing right

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we have to build this into our lives right the second yeahgo ahead what I'd

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like to add you know for the fir for the first one is forlisteners out there it's also important as you hear Mickey

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and I speak about what works for us it's different foreveryone everybody

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learns differently so maybe reading isn't for you and maybeyou want to watch documentaries maybe you learn from

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being in the flow at work well being in the flow at work isis a really important one for all of us but find

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what works for you you know don't force something you knowif if you don't like reading a physical book and you spend an

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hour doing it and you don't retain anything it's not worthyour time uh what I like to you said Mickey about

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scheduling that time I had a conversation with Andy Storchon this

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podcast as well and Andy said that he carves out 15 to 25minutes every

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morning reading and that compound time has led him to readlike an astronomical

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uh when I say astronomical maybe 30 40 books a year so Ireally think that taking the time and scheduling it and

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keeping to it like for me I like to read for 30 minutesevery morning you know that's my thing I I I get it done I also

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want to point out that having a growth mindset and beingopen you could learn

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from everyone so a lot of times my wife drags me to uhevents that I don't want to go to and sometimes I'm in a bad mood

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about it but a lot of times I I find myself in a situationwith somebody talking about something whether it's art

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or crypto something that I know nothing about it's okay tobe vulnerable and say hey I don't know anything about this and

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but if you actually are present and you're asking questionsand you're listening that's another great opportunity to learn so for you

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listeners out there we're not talking about only learningyou know exactly job related things but just being open to

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learning uh new stuff now let's move on to step number twoyeah step number two

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actually you just mentioned a minute ago Damon which ishaving a growth mindset um and uh you know I think about I for

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for many of us if we're if we're truly honest with our lifeexperiences we've probably learned more from our failures

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and missteps and mistakes than the things that were justoutright successes um I um our our mutual colleague and

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friend Meredith Bell had um your friends uh Jay Dixon on umtalking about helping

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athletes transition into the professional world right andone of the things that he talked about that I just loved was this idea of afailure resume

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um this idea of like understanding and owning those thingswhere you've had those missteps and like what did you

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learn about that and when I talk about growth mindset thebig the big takeaway for me the thing that I would offer to

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everybody is this idea of the power of yet if you add theword yet this is a

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very small linguistic thing but if you add the power of ifyou add the word yet at the end of I don't know how to or I

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can't or whatever that is right essentially what you'redoing is you're opening the door and you're setting a pathway for where youcould be into the

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future right so like I you know I'm not an expert of blahblah blah yet right I

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haven't learned how to blank yet and what that does isinstead of closing

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yourself off from here's these things that I don't know howto do here's these things I haven't learned yet here's these things I'm notexcellent in it's

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essentially saying I'm getting there right like we're allworks in progress so I think a growth mindset is super important recognizingyou know learning

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I know people say learn from your mistakes but truly takinga look at it and saying well that didn't go

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particularly well how do I dissect that understand what thatmeans what do I do with it so that next time it goes from

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being a misstep or a failure to actually being somethingthat's a catalyst for huge success in the future okay yeah I

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love that I love I love that step number two um I hear a lotof great leaders say

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that the real learning takes place out of your comfort zoneyou know just getting out of your comfort zone trying

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things and like you said if if it doesn't work out uh it'sjust not yet uh

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Dan Turner I know we're we're going on down our list DanTurner on on an episode of of of of L podcast said that

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failure is only failure if you don't try or you quit and alot of the best

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learnings come from going out there and and trying things soum I I think that

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that's that's Fant fantastic so let's move on to step numberthree yeah step

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number three and this is where we go kind of really movingfrom the individual to the group or to the

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organization and and that that action step is to learn fromand with other people um there's a great quote uh Bill

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Nye the Science Guy we all know him right he talks abouteach person you meet knows something that you don't right and that's kind ofwhat you talked

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about about going to things that maybe I don't understand orwhatnot but if I can be curious right if I can kind of open

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myself up to everybody that I meet is going to teach mesomething that I don't already know or they're they're going to

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speak about something in a way that I don't understand rightwe all learn things every single day in a way that

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was different from the day before right and when I talkabout learning from other people that's the easier part

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right is is absorbing books watching videos havingconversations grabbing a beer or a coffee with somebody but

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learning with other people is this idea of paying it forwardright um this is one of the things in in Damon I'd like

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I'd love to ask you about this too but this idea of kind oflearning in community or learning within organizations building learningcultures

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um one of the things that um I think that we do very well atlearn it but is this idea of I learned this thing and I

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don't want to keep that to myself I want to pass that backto everybody around me and so here's this video here's a

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voiceover thing that I did of this here I want to showeverybody this not just because we have you know not just

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because we're a Learning and Development company but becausewe're a group of people that want to learn with and from

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each other and so the the idea of kind of gifting that on tosomebody else that's the that's the third action step

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is learning with and from other people and and Damon i' I'dbe curious like how

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do you like how would you recommend from from your VantagePoint how do you how do we set this up within organizations

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how do we build learning cultures within organizations greatquestion and it's

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something that you and I love talking about when it comes tobuilding a learning organiz ation uh a learn itall

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company like we like to call them it starts with leadershipit starts with the sea level and it starts with the CEO

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and I believe it means not not that just they're they'resetting aside funds and

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time uh for their team but I I think that the CEO and thethe other sea level

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suite need to roll up their sleeves and get involved in thelearning and and participate in it join classes or you

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know share uh podcasts that they've listen listen to andthen Champion other people and and recognize other people

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who are getting involved in learning I think that I think itall starts there and like a lot of great leaders I think

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you need to model the behavior of the team that you you wantto have I mean how can you expect people to dive in and

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learn all these things if you're if you're not willing toparticipate yourself I think that that's important I

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also think it's important to if you're trying to have it youknow permeate throughout the organization is you want

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to find a couple uh Champions kind of find a couple peopleinternally who are really willing

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to to take accountability and set up whether it's classes ormentorship

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programs I mean there's so many different ways to go aboutlearning uh there's there's you could work with

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learn it for programs we of course we love that you could docoaching you know one of the if you're on a type budget uh

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one of the things that we like to do is we send somebody toa class it doesn't even have to be a learn it class and

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then they come back and they teach it back and so listenersthink about that you know especially if you're a leader out there um if youhave a tight budget

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send somebody to a conference or a class have them come backand teach everybody else it helps Mak their learning more

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sticky and it Mickey like you said it gives a gift back toeverybody else and it gets all these opportunities to learn

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and I also think it's important that all learning shouldn'tbe just directly on task or work focused um at learn it and

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and I know a lot of other organizations do this as well umthey have a you know a th000 to $2,000 budget maybe a year

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for indiv individual and they're allowed to go take trainingin anything they

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want bringing it all back here Mickey what we're talkingabout is learning agility building the muscle to continue

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to learn it's one thing to pick up the skill which is goingto be irrelevant probably in in six months you know some

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of them um it's another thing to constantly being able tolearn so even if they're not learning something that's

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specific to their job role is still worth the investment asan employer giving them the opportunity and get

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people hungry and excited about learning and so those aresome of the steps I'm

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curious to hear if you have any stories um that go alongwith this well Damon

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you know it just made me think about you and I um you knowwe have some favorite books in common but one of the topics

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that you and I both have in common that we like to learnlearn a lot about is World War II um and again I remember

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that from our first conversation and I think about and I'veheard you a lot that first conversation we did yeah yeah

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we we sure did that's I think we were a hookline and sinkeron each other at that point um but I think about you know

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World War II obviously it's it's many many years have passedright 80 80 years

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since D-Day right just a couple of months ago and um butthere's so much

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this is a significant event the past but here we are in ourpresent still

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learning from the lessons of times 80 years ago right andlike to me that

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that's another definition of learning agility and and youtalk about this that it's not just about I'm learning this skill that's goingto be really helpful

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for me in sales this skill that's going to be really helpfulfor me in marketing but like what are we learning from past

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history or current events or whatever this is to be able tolike fold that into life perspective our ability to you

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know uh convey information to influence other people I thinkyou know that's that's the idea as you said like going

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to an art thing or learning about crypto or anything likethat it may not be something that I initially can see the

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pathways or the connections but then all of a sudden it'syou you do see that connectedness and that's what's so

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powerful about learning is you you recognize after a whileall of this stuff kind of interweaves together into

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who you are how you present yourself what you have tocontribute to an organization what you have to contribute

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to your friends and family too so you I I I love that andyou know um it it does

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make me think though and you know I mean we're we're kind ofuh you know nerd talking to nerd here a little bit but I

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want to Circle back Damon and an ask you a question aboutkind of this you know the first action step I talked about was

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this idea of kind of sponging up as much as you can and umyou talked about kind of being able to uh engage in learning

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however however it makes it work what are some suggestionsor kind of how would you respond I'll come at this from like the deficit

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mindedness I'm sure that you've had some people in your lifebefore have said like yeah Damon that sounds awesome but

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I don't have that kind of time in my day I don't have thatkind of time in my life right now what do you say to those

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folks because I do feel like I hear that way more often nowin the last couple of years than I do of people you know over

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over time well what I would say to those people and this isthis is going to be

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another one of the skills that we talk about in a futureepisode self-awareness is being honest with yourself you know

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and a lot of times the people who who say that they don'thave time they they typically have a victim mentality maybe

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even lack accountability sometimes and I bet you if they satdown and they reflected on the time that they had

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throughout the day yes we're all busy don't get me wrongright but instead of scrolling through uh Instagram or or

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binging on Netflix at the end of the night find time andcarve out time

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listeners I'm not saying you need to spend an hour Imentioned earlier Andy Storch and 15 25 minutes a day you can

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find 25 minutes a day whether it's listening to a podcast asyou drive to

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the grocery store or you you you take your kid for a walkyou can find the

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time it takes to pick up some learning and also you can dothat at work too I

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think that you I mean a whole another topic is aroundmentorship and coaching and all that kind of stuff but you know

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even virtually or um if you're in person if if you are witha a a senior member

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of your team or even somebody Junior you know listen and askquestions these are all opportunities to learn so I don't

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buy in the excuse at all when it comes to when it comes tonot being able to find time for Learning and I you know

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I'm gonna throw you back a question Mickey um that that justkind of popped in my head because you know it's tough

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to create a learning culture um but one of the things thatthat helps with that

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is to whether you have it in your core values or but you youwant to have it in the DNA of people who you bring on board

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and hopefully um for all of those out here listening you'reyou're probably a leader and and you probably have a team

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members who have it in their DNA but as we continue to hiremore do you have any

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recommendations around questions to ask in the interviewprocess or how you can kind of assess out people who have a

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learn itall attitude versus a know-it-all attitudeabsolutely yeah I mean I think yeah assessing assessing

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for learning appetite and learning agility skills I think issuper important right I mean you had um Elias

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Simpson on the podcast talking about you know learning as aas the biggest competitive advantage and we've talked a

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lot about that I think one of the most important things thatthat we can do is those nice open-ended questions that we

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can ask in initial interviews of you know what are threethings that you've learned recently and how did you learn

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that and what did you do with that knowledge um again Ireference back to the very first conversation that you and

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I ever had which is you asked me what are some of yourfavorite books what are you reading right now and what have you done with thatyou asked me that exact

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question was that like a three-hour conversation because wetalked about a lot that time it was it was a couple

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hours it was we we both steamrolled through some other stuffthat we had going on that day but um you know when

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you ask somebody that number one it's that's not the typicalinterview questions that people are ready for you

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know what's your strengths and weaknesses not the that's notimportant um because that is about self-awareness

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which is another topic we're going to talk about but um whatyou're doing is you're assessing number one how quickly

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can somebody tell you what their favorite book is howquickly and and again speed is not everything but it's

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that tip of the tongue thing if I can tell you Damon youknow the book that I'm listening to right now is this and

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you know every night when when you know I'm putting my kidsto sleep and they finally settle in and everything I can't

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wait to get my earbuds in because right you that allows meto know that this is somebody who's really interested in

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learning and again it doesn't have to be books but so Ithink questions um I think the the other creative ways that

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you could ask people about that is you know what are waysthat you're looking to contribute back to the organization

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or contribute back to our industry or our field um that alsogives me a sense

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of what are you doing outside of just earning your paycheckand earning your keep and doing your work within the

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organization obviously we're all here because we're inservice to the org organization but we are in service to an

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industry we're in service to a field we're in service to acommunity and I think asking those types of questions as

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an interviewer my ability to read and understand that wouldgive me that would

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give me so much information about how does this person existin in their world

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right and I can think of there's some been some people thatI have asked questions like that and they you know

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stammer and and and hesitate over it or laugh and say yeahyeah I'm not really I

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don't really do that right like that's not really my thingor I don't have time to read or I don't have time right and

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my response not that it's yeah it is a red flag I mean myresponse is I have a one-year-old and a three-year-old in a

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very busy life and like this is a big value um but it's alsoa necessary value

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I think for a lot of people yeah I mean one of the questionsthat I like to ask

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and listeners I think this is a good bonus one it's kind oflike what Mickey said is share with me what books what

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personal development books do you have on your you know youknow on your bookshelf and it's not about how fast

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they can answer it but if they can't answer it um that'sgreat and then say

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take it at another level okay what did you learn and how didyou apply that I

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think that that's I think that's a great question you knowto see if they read something and if they have an example or

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a story how they applied it another question that u i I liketo ask is

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asking somebody hey at your last company did they have aformal training program and so sometimes people will come back

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and say yes or no and and if if they said especially if theysaid no say okay your company didn't have a formal

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training program what did you do on your own to continue tolearn and grow and

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the individuals who could write away say well you know whatI did I did this this and this I invested in myself I did this

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and this uh compareed to the people said well I didn't doanything because my company didn't take care of me that's one of the reasonswhy I left that that

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shows a lot about ownership right there um so so those are acouple key things

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now we're we're coming up on time I I want to kind of justrecap and help me with the recap um and then I'm GNA have

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you end Mickey with going through the three action steps onemore time but we talked about so many great things we

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talked about why it's so important to learn you know therisks and pitfalls

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what could happen to you personally and for your company ifyou don't have that learning mindset in that learning

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culture we talk about how everybody learns differently youknow so you got to find something that works for you how

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social learning and connection is important how um all thesegreat things

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we talked about so Mickey what else would you want to add tothat that we spoke about and then take it home with

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going through the three steps one more time yeah I would Iwould double down on the social learning piece I think um you

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know learning in Community Learning with each other whetherthat's talking to your spouse partner kids neighbors you

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know being able to share with people what you've learnedwhether it's something that's going on in your community a person you met amovie you

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watched whatever that is that's connectedness right likethat's our relationships I I don't know that people

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spend enough time in relationships with each other not justkind of checklist talking through the things that we're

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supposed to talk to so I think social learning is huge butum so that would be the one I would double down on but if I

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can come back to yeah kind of bring things home with thosethree action steps um super critical and I'd love for people you know like dropus some

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comments drop us a line with other action steps that youwould suggest too but the first one is to sponge up

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information wherever you can wherever right doesn't have tobe traditional sources books workshops anything like

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that it can be really non-traditional sources too and thesecond one is having a growth mindset really looking at um

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Jay Dixon's com uh concept of a failure resume looking atthose missteps those failures what can I do to learn from

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those things but also the power of yet I don't knowsomething yet right it gives you a way a pathway into the future for

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Learning and then that last one again I think the one thatboth you and I really um really want folks to hear which is

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this idea of learning from and with other people so you knowdo do what you can to open yourself and kind of be

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opportunistic and curious with other people um and Pay ItForward right bring what you're learning bring it back to

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the people that you work with the people that you work forsharing videos train the trainer sort of things I love that

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concept I I used to have folks do that of if you go to aconference or some that you come back the next week teach

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it to the rest of us right so those are the three bigConcepts learning agility absolutely I think the competitive

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Advantage for individuals as well as organizations Damon nowMickey you've been awesome here today and we can go on

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forever and nerd out about this never of my wildest dreamsthat I think I would N Out on learning but but I did uh and

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have um how can our audience connect with you yeah yeahplease look me up um

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on LinkedIn Mickey Fitch Collins or you could just searchlearn it and Mickey and you'll find me um I would absolutely

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love to connect with folks send me a message whatever we cando whatever I can do to help support you I'm there for it and one of the thingswe didn't talk

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about because I want you all to connect with me on onLinkedIn as well Damon lmy is um the opportunities to learn and

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grow from the LinkedIn Community which is which is soimportant um you should

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follow Mickey because she she puts out such great content uhI do my best to as

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well and for you leaders out there I think it's importantwhen you're in the interview process to see if you have

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people out there who are engaging on on LinkedIn that'sanother way to see if they have an appetite for learning so

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this has been a great episode what I'd like uh for everybodyout there couple things uh if you like this episode

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please subscribe tell a friend rate and review I'd also likeyou to check out my

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is a special episode on learning agility go to learn it.comand if you find a

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to a free class so take advantage of the learningopportunities that are out there for you make the opportunities for

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yourself and until next time everybody stay curious and keeplearning have a

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great day

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