The challenge of using someone else’s strategy

I am too much of an activist to enjoy attending many conferences. My preference is to learn in the cut and thrust of debate. Especially if I have had the opportunity of giving the subject some previous thought. If I rightly understand one of Paul’s teaching styles, recorded in Acts 18:4 where “..he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks”, as a more interactive way of learning. I would have loved to be in that environment.

Those conferences I do attend I find myself wanting to listen to people who have achieved something. I especially enjoy listening to those people that have some interesting and stimulating insight on a given subject. The challenge we face when listening to great achievers is that they tend to talk about a model that they have developed that has worked for them. A one-way flow of information can motivate us to implement a “Ready made idea” without thoroughly thinking it through and asking the right questions.

Deresiewiez writes - “I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about the subject, always the conventional wisdom”. It is so important that we take any idea and really understand how it relates in the context the speaker comes from, and the context that you are planning to implement it in.

To be continued

The challenge of using someone else’s strategy

I am too much of an activist to enjoy attending many conferences. My preference is to learn in the cut and thrust of debate. Especially if I have had the opportunity of giving the subject some previous thought. If I rightly understand one of Paul’s teaching styles, recorded in Acts 18:4 where “..he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks”, as a more interactive way of learning. I would have loved to be in that environment.