Learning how to learn

Where does your information come from? Who? Why are they choosing to give you that information? Is it a part of their job or are they in a role / have a certain type of relationship with you that enables information to be given to you? Clarifying that relationship with clear parameters is essential from the start, otherwise it can be messy as to whose job something actually is. Some of the negotiation difficulties working through relationships can be about where the information has come from? What happens if ‘this’ ‘is’ what someone was taught to share? Information that can be handed down over generations can be full of use. However it can also have been designed to be used in a specific way and only have a certain pre-determined outcome. Learning how to learn involve understanding the opportunities being given to you because of an internal process where feedback is taken from all sources. Thinking in pictures or taking photographs of all of the ‘evidence’ around you as you go through years and years and years of learning is what gets linked together. It is the details within those pictures and those conversations across all settings, with all of the people whom you have been involved with over the course of your life span or over the course of your professional learning career that important value is to be not found…