“I
was working on the idea that you learn what you do, and not what you
talk about.”
“It
also became clear that there had to be a place where people could
learn how to make decisions by actually making real decisions.
That's how you learn – by doing it. I believed then and still
believe that you learn from your experience of doing something and
from your analysis of that experience.”
“We
had to set ourselves a goal, but we didn't have the slightest idea of
how to achieve it.”
I
chose these quotes because I feel like they relate to me the most. I
feel like these three quotes are closely linked to each other. With
the first quote, I feel this is very true and realized this with
myself recently. It is easy to have a lot of ideas and talk about
them, but the only way to really get a good understanding of what it
takes to do something, or to show people that you are serious about
something is by actually doing it. I have talked probably since I
was a teenager about wanting to own my own business and wouldn't it
be great, etc. etc. But, I never did anything about it, I just had
ideas and thoughts. Now, with where I am in my life, I am just now
staring to go through the process of making this a reality. I still
don't have anything to show that I am doing it, but I know for
myself, that I am serious and taking it a lot more serious than I did
in the past.
The
second quote goes hand-in-hand wit the first one for me. I am gong
through the learning process now at College Unbound. It is a project
for me, but a very real one. If the project doesn't go as I want it
to, it may not be a problem from the CU point of view because it is
all a learning experience for me. It is something that I have ever
done before, but am going though the process so I can learn for
myslef what it is like. Hopefully it works out, but if it doesn't, I
can look back on it and see where I should make changes or do things
differently, and then try again.
And,
the third quote goes right along with the previous two for me. I
have no idea how I am going to achieve my goal, but I know that I am
not going to be able to achieve anything if I don't have a goal to
begin with. Right now, I have a broad goal and as this semester goes
on, I am going to narrow it down in to a defined goal. In the past
years, when I simply thought about owning my own business, I didn't
really have a goal in mind, or wasn't working towards anything
because I always had a job and it wasn't like I needed to do it now,
I could put it on the back burner for a while. Now it is right up in
my face and I know I need a goal in order to achieve anything.
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