Learning Frames

January 18, 2020 Shane Lester Learning Goals, learning how to learn

Why Self-Help Rarely Works

It’s a new year and your setting goals because want to improve. You are going to have set backs. How do you overcome fear, failure, and frustration Research from the University of Scranton indicate that only 8% of Americans are able to actually achieve their New Year’s goals. In kind, psychologist Richard Wiseman found only … Continue reading Why Self-Help Rarely Works

December 26, 2019 Shane Lester Learning Goals, learning how to learn

How to Breakthrough Failure in 2020

We all tend to think that the amount of effort should equal the reward. When that doesn’t happen that is called the dip. “The dip” by Seth Godin provides insight into the journey of success. The thesis of the Dip is: Winners either quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt at the right failure … Continue reading How to Breakthrough Failure in 2020

December 10, 2019 Shane Lester learing, Learning Goals, learning how to learn

The Journey Begins

I wanted to share the backstory of why I wrote my new book The Learning Maze. A few years ago I did an inventory of my life. I was brutally honest and extremely accountable for my failures as a person, an author, as an employee and I saw how I ignored my callings in life. … Continue reading The Journey Begins

November 30, 2019November 30, 2019 Shane Lester Learning Goals, learning how to learn

How To Learn From Failure

Avoid Denial. If you can’t own a failure then you can’t make it right. No breakthrough in your life will occur if you remain in denial about your reality.

November 20, 2019 Shane Lester Learning Goals, learning how to learn

Learning starts with love

Our understanding of the world is shaped by a hunger for narratives that rises out of our discomfort with ambiguity and arbitrary events. When surprising things happen, we search for an explanation and meaning. We tend to not examine the slow progress of experiences upon our narratives.