Ready to learn

Created on August 02, 2012

2012   ·   Learning   Teaching

Jason Fried paraphrasing Clayton Christensen on why someone can’t be taught until they’re ready to learn:

“Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question – you have to want to know – in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.”

Read the rest: What are questions? via Signal vs Noise

Also, check out Clayton Christensen’s site here.



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