Tag: Learning

What do we do to inspire ourselves each day?

Posted on by philipdodson


What do we do each day to inspire ourselves?

Do we read books that are likely to make a difference and help us create something that matters or do we read the Metro?

Do we listen to educational podcasts or listen to just music?

Do we read blogs or articles that inspire and educate or just trawl through click porn on Facebook?

Do we stop and ask questions to learn from others or do we chat about weather?

Obviously, we can’t spend all our time getting inspiration and education and there is no harm to chatting about the weather. 

However, as with everything in life, we can choose just how much inspiration we have each day in our life and how we can use that to move closer to our dreams and goals, whatever they may be. 

Validating

Posted on by philipdodson


We all have an opinion on most subjects. 

That’s OK, we are all entitled to our views. 

How often, though, have we formed opinions without validating them, perhaps without looking at any evidence to support our views?

OK, so we may only be validating them via the web or a book or another person’s opinion. To certain extent we are then only validating them with another person’s perspective. But we are at least looking at some stats perhaps or anecdotal evidence or a survey/study etc. 

However, at least attempting to verify something we hold as a view has to better than not doing that. 

After all, we may find out while doing our research that there are other perspectives to something we believed was black and white, cut and dried, and simply a ‘fact’.

Opening up our mind to information allows us to be better informed with our views.