Monday's Inspiration -- LEARN, DO, TEACH , The Key To Mastery!

By Greg Perry, Kirkland Realtor

So what about formal education?  You know --what we do through high school, then college.

Here's what some notable people have to say about education:

"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing."

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) U.S. essayist and poet.

"They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing."

Douglas Yates

"[Education] consists mainly in what we have unlearned."

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer.

Many of the brightest minds that the world has seen seem to have rather harsh things to say about formal education -- the kindergarten through college part of our lives.  Perhaps it is because they discovered that real learning comes after doing.

I stay in the learning process.  I go to at least 4 seminars per year and take the best classes possible for real estate, my profession.  What I have found for myself is that almost everything I hear in a class or seminar is lost.....unless I put at least one thing that I heard into action.  That is where experiential knowledge happens.

Over the years, I've heard Brian Buffini, a mentor of mine, say the key to mastery in anything is a 3 step process.  LEARN - DO - TEACH.  I believe him, because I've experienced mastery in a few disciplines with this formula.

Don't stop your learning with your formal education.  No matter what you do for your occupation, keep in a continuing education curve.  Find at least one idea in every seminar or class that you take and make an intentional effort to implement.  After you make the idea into a working discipline (a standard of practice) , share the idea with someone else and you'll be on the road to mastering it.

JUST DO IT!