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Inwardly-directed double-loop learning works faster and better when the knowledge worker is a reflective person, or when he practices internal attention. Learning is a feedback process, and learning is facilitated when the knowledge worker installs a feedback loop within himself. The key to this feedback loop is internal attention.

via External Attention Can Block Your Learning « Apin Talisayon’s Weblog.

Starting to see some real thinking here. Learning isn’t just something we did in elementary school through college while hitting the books. There is a way we can do it and it can be trained into us.

Main ideas are to not be distracted all the time. Look inward, both in your organization and internal to you for deep causes of things. Apin, in his blog suggests root causes discovered inwardly for inaction can be organizational culture, policies, standards, and leadership styles. But you have to pause from the distractions of the work that must be done to notice these.

This is my biggest complaint with businesses. I see a culture that consumes itself with these distractions so as to fill ones mind to a point where there isn’t capacity for sincere self or inward reflection. Our egos don’t allow penetration because it puts our identity at risk. Being who I am is too important to be open to change. And the consequence is non-development. And if you are not moving forward you are moving backward.