https://vivekvsp.com/2011/06/how-not-to-make-learning-a-boring-experience/ The Events in Human Resources and Employee Relations space, and in My World through my eyes. Wed, 29 Jun 2016 13:55:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://vivekvsp.com/2011/06/how-not-to-make-learning-a-boring-experience/#comment-3826 Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:28:06 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/2011/06/how-not-to-make-learning-a-boring-experience/#comment-3826 without a doubt !
the problem is that a class of budding astronomers has at least some people who are by themselves kicked about astronomy and getting better at it, while, say, commercial organisations have scores of people who are convinced by their own experience of outcomes/success that they can get by without any learning.
add to that the popular habit of labelling what others have to say as 'gyaan'/'funda', and the acquired habit of compartmentalising work from all other aspects of life, and the problem of trying to teach people in organisations becomes intense.
even an assimilation of what interests people or what new ideas they have could result in an uninteresting list for the teacher.
i have been in several meetings where leaders have joked about their good performers being rather ordinary/outdated and having results not because of themselves but inspite of themselves. predictably, the discussions then move on to 'how do we develop the next generation of leaders with the ordinary raw material at hand ?'.
wherever the blame could be pinned, we could shoulder some of it on ourselves and make a beginning by trying to unlearn the belief and habits mentioned earlier.

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