I was at a train station recently and noticed a book shop promoting Summer Holiday Reads and it made me think about what we get (knowledge, escapism…) when we take time to read (or listen to!) a book.
I’m not on holiday anytime soon ☹ but it reminded me of something that happened with a project I’m working on which involves trying to pass some knowledge to a specific group of people.
In working out how to do this someone made the point that we can’t just hand someone a book and expect them to learn without following up on progress and supporting learning to make sure changes in behaviour were more likely to happen.
What do you think about this?
While I agree that following up to support learning is important I also know that it’s not always an option.
So, can you just read a book and use it to help you do certain things better? Absolutely. Instead of a follow up from the author you use a self-driven process involving note taking, reflection, discussion and action to see if an idea or thought serves you better than what you were doing before.
I feel that to thrive as humans we need to have a process like this. If this is true should we more often encourage the use of this process by firstly tapping into the motivation that will drive the change in behaviour (a really important part of the process which is too often missed) and then giving people access to useful information in its simplest form and then leave them to it to find their own way?
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