Curiosity Management

How can we be learned people? The answer lies in using our curiosity. When we come across things that we feel curious about, what do we do? We find answers for them. A-ha! This is the way to being learned people.

Curiosity Management Process

1. Be curious.
2. Create opportunities for us to be curious.
3. Record what makes us curious.
4. Ask questions.
5. Find learning resources.
6. Ask learning resources questions.
7. Record what learning resources help us to answer the questions.

As we answer more curiosities, we learn more. As we learn more, we become learned people.

Be Learned

My most often used email signature is

Regards :-)

Be learned

whatidiscover

Stephanie asked does to be learned means one have learned everything and stopped? Is it possible to learn everything?

I replied be learned is my life's purpose. One cannot learn all but can learn more. Purpose is a direction not destination. I agree to her view in one of our conversations that one can never be the best because once one reach best, there is a higher level to go.

I have 2 questions to guide me if I have been more learned

1. What is the 1 new idea I discover this week? ( 1 new idea rule )
2. Am I more learned this moment than the moment before? ( The now rule )

Blogging is part of working

While I was watching Fred Wilson's talk at Google Talks, the thought of his blog has become part of how he works caught my attention.

How he work:

1. Before presentation, post slides on blog.
2. Blog readers give comments.
3. Review and incorporate comments into slides.
4. Thank readers.

This leads me to thinking one can shift from working alone or working with colleagues to working collectively with one's social networks. This proves that there is value in social networks for corporations.

Sense from:

Fred Wilson at Google Talks

1:55 - 3:50 mins

How do Alan Webber manage ideas

How do Alan Webber manage ideas?

1. Keep a stack of 3 x 5 cards.
2. Listen and observe.
3. When heard an idea that clicked with you, pull out a card and write it down.
4. Review the cards.
5. Catalog the cards into files.

Sense from:

The next big idea in management: 3 x 5 card

Alan Webber

8 characteristics of effective idea process

8 characteristics of effective idea process

1. Ideas are encouraged and welcomed.
2. Submitting ideas is simple.
3. Evaluation of ideas is quick and effective.
4. Feedback is timely, constructive and informative.
5. Implementation is rapid and smooth.
6. Ideas are reviewed for additional potential.
7. People are recognized and success is celebrated.
8. Idea system performance is measured, reviewed and improved.

Source:

Ideas are free

Alan Robinson & Dean Schroeder

Page 144 - 145

ISBN: 9781576752821

How to get ideas

How to get ideas

1. Just ask

Ask your people to come to their regular department meetings with one small idea that will make their work easier or improve the company in some way and that will not require permission from above or significant resources to implement. Have each person present his or her idea and ask the group to discuss it and build on it. If an idea is worthwhile, agree on who will implement it.

2. Offer lunch

Bring in pizza ( or whatever food is appropriate ) and collect and discuss your employees' ideas over an extended lunch. Hold the lunch off-site, if more appropriate. Such a lunch can become a regular activity.

3. When change occurs, ask for ideas

Whenever major change occurs or is anticipated, encourage your group to be on the lookout for the new problems and opportunities created by this change and to offer ideas to address them.

4. Look for that bigger problem or opportunity in a small idea

When an idea comes in that might have broader implications, explore them. Together with your people, identify the larger issues involved and decide what can be done to address them.

5. Work on reluctant participants

When a person is not offering any ideas, talk to him or her and find out why. Encourage and help this person until he or she feels comfortable and confident about giving in ideas.

Source:

Ideas are free

Alan Robinson & Dean Schroeder

Page 58

ISBN: 9781576752821

I to the power of you

Things we learned project

Last Saturday, I watch Stefan Sagmeister's things I have learned in my life so far at TED with the Bucky Group. I was interested in his list of things learned. I search online and found the list. I have a list of things learned too. I shared Stefan's list and my list with the group. I ask them to share their things learned. I got reply from Joo Hock and Michael. I start to see value in creating a project to collect things we have learned.

I decide to start the things we learned project.

What have Stefan Sagmeister learned in his life so far?

What have Stefan Sagmeister learned in his life so far?

1. Helping other people helps me.
   
2. Having guts always works out for me.
   
3. Thinking that life will be better in the future is stupid. I have to live now.
   
4. Organising a charity group is surprisingly easy.
   
5. Being not truthful always works against me.
   
6. Everything I do always comes back to me.
   
7. Assuming is stifling.
   
8. Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.
   
9. Over time I get used to everything and start taking for granted.
   
10. Money does not make me happy.
    
11. My dreams have no meaning.
    
12. Keeping a diary supports personal development.
    
13. Trying to look good limits my life.
    
14. Material luxuries are best enjoyed in small doses.
    
15. Worrying solves nothing.
    
16. Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.
    
17. Everybody thinks they are right.
    
18. If I want to explore a new direction professionally, it is helpful to try it out for myself first.
    
19. Low expectations are a good strategy.
    
20. Everybody who is honest is interesting.
    

Source:

Things I have learned in my life so far

CR Blog

What have I learned in my life so far?

1. Nothing is permanent ( including this list ).
   
2. Things fail when it is not design to deal with changes.
   
3. One can reduces one's ignorance by learning more about oneself and the World around us.
   
4. Sharing what I discover about myself and the World around me is intellectual philanthropy.
   
5. There is power when one knows one can be wrong.
   
6. There is always more than one way of seeing and doing things.
   
7. Listen to people who have unpopular views.
   
8. Do one's own thinking.
   
9. If one does not make choices, choices make one.
   
10. Connecting the disconnects
    

What have you learned in your life so far?

Principles for a new media literacy

In the age of the Internet and blogging, we are creators as well as consumers of media. With the increase of media and the need to blog, we need more sophisticated media literacy. Let's use the following as a guide.

Sense from:

Principles for a new media literacy

Dan Gillmor

Principles of media consumption:

1. Be skeptical of absolutely everything.
   
2. Although skepticism is essential, don't be equally skeptical of everything.
   
3. Go outside your personal comfort zone.
   
4. Ask more questions.
   
5. Understand and learn media techniques.
   

Principles of media creation:

1. Do your homework, and then do some more.
   
2. Get it right, every time.
   
3. Be fair to everyone.
   
4. Think independently, especially of your own biases.
   
5. Practice and demand transparency.
   

Slide deleted notice

I share presentations that I discover on the Internet on SlideShare. I recently received a request from Dave Gray to take down his slides. There are 4 SlideShare users that might want to learn from his slide as they have selected his slide as their favorites. I thought of informing them one by one. I was also thinking is there a better way as other authors might have the same request.

Thinking… thinking… thinking…

Finally I came up with the idea of a slide deleted notice. The notice helps to inform people:

1. Why the slide is deleted.
   
2. Who wants the slide deleted.
   
3. Does the people who wants the slide deleted has ground to do so.
   
4. Where to go to as an alternative.

Corporate open learning resource

What did I observe?

Customers don’t just buy products and services from corporations. They also learn from them. They don’t just learn things that will benefit the corporations’ sales. For example, if they learn how to protect their love ones by buying life insurance, they might buy life insurance from AIA who offers them a free seminar on financial planning.

They also learn things which will not help coporations’ sales. For example, when they watch a video on personal development at Talks@Google, they don’t use Google more.

It will be interesting to see:

Will more corporations release their in house learning resources to the public?
Will customers prefer to buy from corpoations that they have learned from versus those that they did not?

What do I called this observation?

Corporate open learning resource

Big6

Source:

Designer's research manual

Jenn O'Grady & Ken O'Grady

Page 71

Rockport

ISBN: 1592532578

Search

Source:

Understanding Internet search

Matt Leacock