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Do Something Different

‘Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.’

Kevin Meyer
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 12:01
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Acquiring new knowledge and perspectives helps you grow within your general area of comfort or interest. To really grow, you need to stretch yourself outside of that comfort zone by learning or experiencing something completely different. In addition to acquiring the new skill, knowledge, or experience, you also create confidence in your ability to break boundaries. This can help you awaken to your true meaning.

A couple years ago, I came across an article by Heather Kelly on CNN.com (“Mark Zuckerberg’s Bizarre New Self-Improvement Goal”) about how Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg sets an annual “challenge” goal:

Every year, the Facebook CEO sets some sort of challenge for himself. In 2009, he vowed to wear a tie to work every day to show he was serious about Facebook’s growth (and possibly get a break from the signature T-shirt and hoodie he wears to every public event). In 2010, he tried to learn Mandarin.

The annual challenges sometimes make headlines, most famously in 2011 when Zuck vowed to eat animals only if he had killed them himself. That pronouncement led to a mixture of backlash and praise from animal-rights activists.

This year [2012], the famously introverted Zuckerberg is seeking out more conversations with actual humans.

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Submitted by dvanputten on Mon, 02/27/2017 - 11:15

Growth VS Development

Dr. Russell Ackoff wrote a book called "Difference That Make A Difference." It is a wonderful book; short, consice and full of thought provoking concepts. The book is considered a glossary of distinctions in words that are important for management. In the book he defines growth vs. development. Growth is an increase in size or number. A pile of trash can grow but it cannot develop. Development is an increase in competence as a result of learning. 

Your path of development is impressive and I thank you for sharing and promoting behavioral change.

Sincerely, Dirk

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