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How to stop missing crucial opportunities for learning and growth
At a certain point in our lives we feel like we’ve learned enough.
University? Been there.
Professional designations and training? You bet.
Paid our dues? Yep.
We fly as quickly as possible through all this learning because we think that once we’re done, everything will be better.
We will be ready.
We will have arrived.
Because there, at the end of all this learning and training, we’ll earn more money, be more admired and respected, and just generally kill it.
But is that true? Do we ever stop learning?
The student and the master
There’s an old proverb I love:
When the student is ready, the master will appear.
What do you think this means?
You might think it’s about a student seeking a master when she is ready for more training.
You might think it’s about a master who seeks a student when the student is ready.
You might think it’s about destiny — that the student and master are drawn together by mysterious forces at exactly the right time.
