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What Does Being a Learner Mean?

What Does It Look Like?

If you choose to do it (because it is your choice), you

■ Make yourself into what you want.
■ Have a teachable spirit.
■ Risk asking anyone anything.
■ Work to be knowledge-based not opinion-based.
■ Have a compulsive curiosity to know all that you can. (Some
people question whether curiosity can be taught, and I say that
it better be self-taught!)
■ Create a culture of innovation and creativity.
■ Learn to be a fast, clear thinker.
■ Have a good knowledge pedigree.
■ Are a student and never stop learning.

Jack Falvey, CEO of Makingthenumbers.com, has had over 36 bylined
articles published in the Wall Street Journal, has written eight books,
was a “careers” cohost on Good Morning America, and teaches at
University of Massachusetts Boston. He says:
Life begins when you graduate from college—anything before that
is ancient history.... Students getting ready to enter the world of
business always ask about how long the training program is.
“Forever” is not the answer they are looking for. Those who accept
the fact that they have just been appointed director of training for
themselves will go further and faster than others.
Learning the fact of the day is just the beginning. Finding out
from customers what is going on in the trade so that pieces of the
puzzle will begin to fit together is a never-ending project if you are
to keep up with an ever-changing big picture. Technology moves.
We all must move with it. Where it is going is always a good
question to study.