John Wooden on Learning
I’m reading Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion
One of Wooden’s strengths was his ability to grow continually. One of his best known quotations is this: “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”
On the critical importance of lifelong learning (especially after tasting some level of success), he writes:
It is very easy to get comfortable in a position of leadership, to believe that you’ve got all the answers, especially when you begin to enjoy some success. People start telling you that you’re the smartest one around. But if you believe them, you’re just the dumbest one around. That’s one of the reasons it’s extremely difficult to stay at the top-because once you get there, it is so easy to stop listening and learning.
Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion
How are you continuing to learn and grow?
Wow. I think that I’ll never finish the growing stack of books that I want to read. Do those speed-reading tapes work?
Matt,
Wooden is a great read. It can be consumed in small pieces profitably. No need for speed reading.