How do you best learn? Positive reinforcement? Admonishment for mistakes made? Writing and re-writing the lessons learned? Something else?
And when you learn something, how do you internalize that lesson?
For Blain Stumpf, his lesson came “after a solo cross country.” His instructor “had some scolding for me,” Blain wrote to me in an email.
So, Blain’s lesson came from admonishment of a mistake.
“I won’t go into details,” wrote Blain. “But I wrote the attached to show my instructor I did learn something.”
And there it is. Putting thoughts and feedback on paper is how Blain internalized the lesson.
Is it enough to say I will never do that — whatever that is — again? Or do you take it further? Like Blain.
Don’t let the lessons of experience go to waste. Internalize them.
