Learning
A view from the balcony
Gustave Caillebotte

Flow
Event

The Varieties of Learning Experience
Person World
For example:
• learning to talk
Emotional Know who • learning to crawl
Know how • learning your ABCs
Cognitive Know where
• learning to fear the number 13
• learning to meditate
Physical ... • learning to speak French
Co-creation • learning the way to the store
Sensory • learning who to trust
• learning with my pal Sally
Social/EI • learning how to sell
• learning Ruby on Rails
• learning where the answers are
• learning to negotiate
DNA, innate, inherited • learning to play piano
• learning to rollerblade
• learning to taste wine critically
• learning to cook bread
Learning is adaptation. • learning to lead effectively

Evolution
Adapt
Die

Evolution
DNA
Adapt
Learn
Die

Evolution
Learning = Adaptation
Fit with the ecosystems Optimal connections
that matter to you. to people and
knowledge.

Evolution
Learning = Adaptation
Fit with the ecosystems Optimal connections
that matter to you. to people and
knowledge.
Are your people learning and
growing fast enough to be
successful in the future?

Evolution
Learning = Adaptation
Fit with the ecosystems Optimal connections
that matter to you. to people and
knowledge.
Are your people learning and
growing fast enough to be
successful in the future? Yes

Forgetting Curve
with reinforcement
Retention

Effect of reinforcement
with reinforcement
Retention

Push Learning Pull Learning
Passive student Active learner
Others set curriculum Learner defines content
Courses, workshops Conversation & discovery
Grades Competence
Obedience Independence
Learn on your own Learn in groups
Unchanging Knowledge is
knowledge transitory

Learn what you
Act now
need to know
Get rid of what Unlearn what’s
you no longer need obsolete