Enemies of Learning

Yesterday, Houston's Nonprofit Leadership Collaborative featured another remarkable speaker , Julio Olalla, founder Newfield Network.  He shared 14 Enemies of Learning and I will add two more:

1. Inability  to admit that we don't know
2. Blindness to blindness (we don't know what we don't know)
3. To live in permanent assessing (judgment)
4. I don't have time
5. The lack of inclusion of somatic learning (body)
6. The lack of inclusion of emotion in learning
7. Gravity (inability to laugh/play)
8. Triviality (joke at the expense of others)
9. Confuse having opinions with knowing
10. Belief that gathering information is equal to learning
11. I can't learn because of who I am
12. Inability to grant others the  authority to teach us
13. Only asking how and why questions
14. Addiction to answers

I add:

1. Lack of interest
2. Addiction to success

He emphasized the importance of learning by sharing that until we expand what we know, we will continue to do more of the same actions and continue to receive the same results. That's a compelling case for continuous learning!