Becoming a Lifelong Learner
Generosity
Becoming a Lifelong Learner
Description
In this episode, Scott sits down with Mike Chibbaro to discuss the value of maintaining humility and curiosity throughout our lives. As an avid reader and learner himself, Mike shares how he has cultivated habits in his own life to prevent complacency and pursue an expanding imagination.
KEY POINTS
- Lifelong learning is a developed discipline born out of necessity by recognizing our status as created beings.
- Good leaders are good learners, as evidenced by historical leaders like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Grace Hopper.
- Complacency, entitlement, and laziness hinder the learning process, but curiosity and humility promote it.
RESOURCES
A Powerful Mind: The Self Education of George Washington by Adrienne Harrison
Lincoln's Battle with God by Stephen Mansfield
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Old Abe: A Novel by John Cribb (historical fiction)
On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain by Ronald C. White
Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age by Kurt Beyer
The Golden Thirteen by Dan C. Goldberg
Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible by Howard Hendricks
Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant
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