"You Cannot Create Experience, You Must Undergo It." — Albert Camus
One
way to enhance learning is by doing. If you want to learn how to drive, you
have to drive. Humans are natural learners. They learn from everything they do.
When they watch television, they learn about the day's events. When they take a
trip, they learn about how to get where they are going and what it is like to
be there. This constant learning also takes place as one works.
If
you do something often enough, you get better at it -- simple and obvious. When
people really care about what they are doing, they may even learn how to do
their jobs better than anyone had hoped. They themselves wonder how to improve
their own performance. They innovate.
Since
mistakes are often quite jarring to someone who cares about what they are
doing, people naturally work hard to avoid them. No one likes to fail. It is
basic to human nature to try to do better and this means attempting to explain
one's failures well enough so that they can be remedied. This self-correcting
behavior can only take place when one has been made aware of one's mistakes and
when one cares enough to improve. If an employee understands and believes that
an error has been made, he will work hard to correct it, and will want to be
trained to do better, if proper rewards are in place for a job well done.
Human
beings can definitely learn by hearing, reading, watching, seeing, and
analyzing…but when it comes to getting results you simply cannot learn better than
to learn by DOING. The best way to learn about continuous improvement is to
simply try to make things better and learn from our mistakes.
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