- Value your listening and reading time at roughly ten times your talking time. This will assure you that you are on a course of continuous learning and self-improvement. — Gerald McGinnis President and CEO of Respironics, Inc.
- It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.— John Wooden Hall of Fame Basketball Coach
- As long as you’re green, you’re growing. As soon as you’re ripe, you start to rot. — Ray Kroc
- Let the wise hear and increase in learning,and the one who understands get guidance. – Proverbs 1:5
teachability… teachable… capable of being instructed or taught…
The great value that the book of proverbs seeks to instill in a person is teachability, the willingness to grow in wisdom no matter how far long a person already is…
here are some things you can do to maintain with a teachable spirit:
- Read, read and read some more… set a monthly goal
- listen to friends, colleagues, and critics… Ken Blanchard said, “feedback is the breakfast of champions”
- look for mistakes and learn how to correct them
- be open to new ideas… new ways of doing things… Ovid said, “you can learn from anyone even your enemy”
- give praise to others when they are right and you are wrong…
- schedule a yearly get away to attend a conference
- get a mentor… stay connected with a group of friends, pastor, colleagues
- surround yourself with people who are better than you… yet never forget that a teachable spirit is able to learn from anyone
- always push yourself, never think you have arrived, Churchill said, “the most important thing about education is appetite.”
- humbly give and share what you’ve learned by investing in others
John Wooden said, “it’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” So keep up a teachable spirit, it will take you places you never thought of.
Walter Bright 