Quotes About Development

creativity is the mechanism that allows learning to seep into our being and become practice.

Hope is a function of struggle. If we want our children to develop high levels of hopefulness, we have to let them struggle.

courage to develop that potential.

I'd love to skip over the hard stuff, but it just doesn't work. We don't change, we don't grow, and we don't move forward without the work.

The ultimate goal in receiving feedback: a skillful blend of listening, integrating feedback, and reflecting it back with accountability.

Stuart Brown, psiquiatra, investigador clínico y fundador del National Institute for Play, además de autor de un maravilloso libro titulado ¡A jugar! La forma más efectiva de desarrollar el cerebro, enriquecer la imaginación y alegrar el alma[45].

Love is not something we give and get. It is something we nurture and grow.

Just under half of the leaders we interviewed initially talked about courage as a personality trait, not a skill. They typically approached the question about specific skills with a "Well, you either have it or you don't" answer.

Bill Gates wrote this in a New York Times op-ed: "Developing a systematic way to help teachers get better is the most powerful idea in education today. The surest way to weaken it is to twist it into a capricious exercise in public shaming. Let's focus on creating a personnel system that truly helps teachers improve.

Asking leaders to answer this question is almost always difficult because they quickly move to believing that if people are doing the best they can, they don't know how to lead them. Their strategies of pushing and grinding on the same issues must give way to the difficult tasks of teaching their team, reassessing their skill gaps, reassigning them, or letting them go.

when we know better, we do better.

who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and who has the courage to develop that potential.

Maya Angelou talk about how when we know better, we do better.

My other quasi-selfish goal is this: I want to live in a world with braver, bolder leaders, and I want to be able to pass that kind of world on to my children. I define a leader as anyone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and who has the courage to develop that potential.

complexity is one of our greatest teachers.

Unfortunately, the trend in many organizations is to design learning to be as easy as possible. Aiming to respect their employees' busy lives, companies build training programs that can be done at any time, with no prerequisites, and often on a mobile device. The result is fun and easy training programs that employees rave about (making them easier for developers to sell) but don't actually instill lasting learning.

gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering. I wanted to develop research that explained the anatomy of connection. Studying connection

According to research, confusion has the potential to motivate, lead to deep learning, and trigger problem solving.

But developing fundamental skills through disciplined practice is what gives players the grounded confidence to dare greatly.

The same way you feel a muscle "burn" when it's being strengthened, the brain needs to feel some discomfort when it's learning. Your mind might hurt for a while—but that's a good thing.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

The only way to become a better writer is to become a better person

With every sentence you write, you have learned something.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.