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I’d like to welcome some new readers—my classmates in the Spectrum Center’s “Secrets & Lies” writing workshop. Thank you for sharing your work and giving me the opportunity to share mine with you. And we owe many thanks to the instructor, Max Regan, for all of the useful feedback and fresh ideas for improving our writing. © 2007 Edward F. Gumnick I’ve always enjoyed learning foreign languages. Between sixth grade and graduation from college, I studied a total of 12 academic years of various languages—Spanish, French, Italian, German, Latin, and Ancient (Attic) Greek. During my high-school and college travels abroad, I eagerly absorbed a few words of several others. I can count to five in Rumanian, say “thank you” and “goodbye” in Polish, and ask “What is your telephone number?” in Dutch. A high-school friend taught me how to say “Would you like to take a shower with me?” in German, but I’ve never had occasion to use it. In the last several years, I’ve spent a lot of time exploring ways to broaden my understanding of the Universe and of my little corner of it. One way that’s produced striking results was a course I took last summer called Mastery of Learning. It’s taught by Chris Welsh, whom I met by way of Mattison Grey, a client, coach, and friend of mine. (You’ll read about Mattison in future blog postings.) Chris calls Mastery of Learning “an evolutionary program designed to rekindle your curiosity and give you the tools to satisfy it.” He presents the course as a series of one-on-one training sessions. He customizes his presentation to suit the interests, needs, and schedule of the learner; in my case, there were five sessions, each about three hours long. Each session combines teaching, training in specific learning skills, and some very masterful coaching to bring clarity and focus to what you’re learning. It’s essentially a course in learning to learn more effectively. But at the same time that Chris is working with the learner to cultivate some very useful learning skills, he introduces …more
© 2007 Edward F. Gumnick WHEREAS: I have been meeting many interesting, interested people who’ve expressed curiosity about my ideas and, specifically, my writing, And WHEREAS: I enjoy spending lots of time talking to those curious people, but there are only so many hours in the day, And WHEREAS: I often find myself repeating the same stories and observations over and over again to different people, And WHEREAS: Spoken conversations, though delightful, usually produce no permanent record that can be shared with others, And WHEREAS: I want to cultivate the habit of producing publishable written material on a regular basis, And WHEREAS: I have ready access to the medium of the Internet and to the tools of blogging, THEREFORE be it resolved: That I will establish a weblog and post material to it on a regular basis; that I will make its existence known to such people as might be interested in reading it; and that I will be curious to see where it leads. © 2007 Edward F. Gumnick |
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