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Book Review of The Key To Everything by Matt Keller

Unlocking the secret to why Some people succeed in others don’t. ★★★★½ A solid, insightful read on personal growth and leadership! Matt Keller argues convincingly that teachability—the willingness to learn and change—is the true key to unlocking success and reaching your potential. The book is packed with practical advice, biblical wisdom (especially drawing from Proverbs), and real-life…

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“What are your 3 favorite qualities about yourself?”

My three favorite qualities about myself are my intelligence (or: teachability, openness to learning), my altruism, and my authenticity.

I’ve struggled with self-confidence a lot of my life, especially about my intelligence—despite my grades mostly being A’s and classmates, teachers, and professors telling me how smart I am. I’m learning to embrace the ways I’ve been told that I’m smart, and to overcome the ways that I have been taught to think myself not so smart, too. I’ve been working to internalize the “growth mindset,” which is the idea that just because you haven’t mastered something yet doesn’t mean you can’t. Maybe you just need a more patient teacher, or better materials, or more time. That’s where I’m at with math, and I’m working myself up to really diving into arithmetic (where I’m pretty sure I got lost in school) and working my way up into algebra and/or statistics. I’m extremely proud of the progress I’ve made in believing in my intelligence and my ability to learn things I used to believe my brain wasn’t designed to learn.

My altruism/drive to help others is another thing I appreciate about myself. I do this mostly through Facebook group discussions, but occasionally in chat rooms and one-on-one interactions as well, where I take the years of work I’ve put into accepting myself, and establishing and reinforcing my boundaries and my rights to them, and the lifetime of self-doubt and self-reproach that other people are sharing, and try to help people not have to go through all the pain I’ve gone through to get here. I know it can’t all be circumvented, but I like to think my advice and experience helps people avoid some of it, if not at least be aware that those things happen or don’t need to happen. Like the meme says, I am being the Iroh I wish I’d had in my life when I was younger. If I can make anyone feel even a tiny bit better, I feel better too.

Finally, and I think the thing that ties the other two together, is my authenticity. It’s been a rough journey to get to this point, where I am unapologetically just myself. “I’m the me-est I’ve ever been,” I posted somewhere earlier today, and it is true. I’ve accepted aspects of me that I struggled with for more than a decade; I’ve accepted new things I’ve learned about myself in the last decade; I’ve given myself permission to have my boundaries, and to hold people accountable for crossing them, and to cut people off without feeling I need to explain myself if they refuse to respect said boundaries. I don’t care how they feel about them if they don’t care how I feel about things that I ask them not to do or say. I’m proud to be a language, machine learning, IoT, and radio nerd; a gelatin weirdo; a horror story fanatic; a low-key stamp and sticker collector; a well-oiled machine of routine with a 1500+ day streak on Duolingo. I’m someone who’s been through some shit and come out the other side pretty damn well, though who’s still got some breakthroughs left to make. I may sometimes be uncomfortable, but I am never ashamed.

[rogers-mugenyi]

#Teachability " A teacher Can Open the door but a student must walk through it " I am grateful for all my mentors and teachers, mentors and coaches who have taught me a thing or two about life . I am a student of life for life . Who is teaching you currently ? Who are you teaching ? Each one teach one . https://www.instagram.com/p/CIIE8pOrFVc/?igshid=1foo490513gal

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Mr. Fix It

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Most people are used to throwing away anything that breaks. Years ago, the neighboring city had regular days where people within the city limits could sit stuff out on the curb for trash pickup. Furniture, radios, and televisions were all thrown away. It is said that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. In one particular case, it was definitely true…

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Sometime in the second half of the 20th century, “teach them to think” became “teach them thinking skills.”  Correspondingly, knowledge became no longer an inseparable part of ability to think but only material for thinking skills to work upon. Empirical claims for the existence and teachability of “higher-order skills” are weak and confuse skills with abilities. These weaknesses persist in current movements to teach “21st century skills.” With a richer conception of knowledge, much of what pass for higher-order skills may be seen as constituting deeper knowledge of a subject. This paper argues that the complex of 21st century educational needs is better treated as a problem of socializing students into a knowledge-creating society than as an itemizable list of learning objectives. (...) The rise of behaviorism and the emphasis on behavioral objectives may have encouraged the shift to treating thinking as a set of skills, although thinking skills have never leant themselves well to behavioral objectification. But the signal event in mid-century pedagogical thought in America was the publication of what came to be known as Bloom’s Taxonomy (Bloom 1956). The Taxonomy proposed a hierarchy of educational objectives, with Knowledge occupying the lowest level. Ranged in ascending order above it were Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation. To judge by what had gone before and what has come after, this hierarchy marks the birth of “higher-order thinking skills,” the separation of process from content, and the subsequent devaluing of knowledge. In 2001 a major revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy appeared (Anderson and Krathwohl 2001). Although it modernized the original taxonomy in several ways, its overall effect is to further separate skills from knowledge. Whereas the original taxonomy posited a one-dimensional ladder of skills and abilities, with Knowledge occupying one of the rungs, the revised version offers a two-dimensional array, with Knowledge as one of the dimensions, perpendicular to the skills dimension. Thus the separation of skills from knowledge, which was equivocal in the original Taxonomy, becomes clear-cut in the 2001 version. As we will try to show, this is not progress.

Carl Bereiter and Marlene Scardamalia (2018) FIXING HUMPTY-DUMPTY: Putting Higher-Order Skills and Knowledge Together Again [2019]

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Your teachability is the litmus test that will let others know if you are serious about growing in Christ or if you are about your objectives and desires. . #teach #teachable #teachability #learning #education #learn #train #training #humility #pride #proud #grow #growing #growth #litmus #litmustest #christ #bible #godsword #Word #biblicalcounseling #rickthomas #objectives #dsires #agendas #growing #knowledge (at Rick Thomas) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqSwuQPgWRT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1u0j60sfm0wmc

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“It’s a mind-set”

Teachability is an attitude, a mind-set that says, “No matter how much I know (or I think I know), I can learn from this situation”. That kind of thinking can help you turn adversity into advantage. It can make you a winner even during the most difficult circumstances.  Sydney Harris sums up the elements of teachable mind-set: “A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others. a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows”. Business author Jim Zabloski writes,

Contrary to popular belief, I consider failure a necessity in business. If you’re not failing at least five times a day, you’re probably not doing enough. The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get. The operative word here is learn. If you repeat the same mistake two or three times, you are not learning from it. You must learn from your own mistakes and from the mistakes of others before you.

the ability to learn from mistakes has value not just in business but in all aspects of life. If you live to learn, then you will really learn to live.

- Failing Forward

Do you think you have “arrived”, or do you maintain an attitude of teachibility?

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#myreadinglist #goodread #inspirational #leadershipdevelopment @matthewwkeller #teachability #thekeytoeverything (at Seminole Gulf Murder Mystery Dinner Train) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnfEO6eg6pm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1tya5xz8fqats