Leadership with Passion through Kokorozashi
The key ingredient to success? Passion.
Finding your kokorozashi will unify your passions and skills to create positive change in society. This GLOBIS Unlimited course will help you develop the values and lifelong goals you need to become a strong, passion-driven leader.
Learning agility is a critical aspect of personal and professional development in today’s rapidly changing world. It is the ability to effectively adapt to new and different circumstances, much like how organisms evolved by adapting to their environment.
With an abundance of information and opportunities available, the challenge for learners is to identify what they want to learn and then find the most effective way to do so. This is where learning agility comes in. By answering questions about what to learn, why to learn it, and how to learn it, individuals can build the skills needed for long-term success.
It is important to understand that learning agility is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Each person’s preferred style and environment will vary. Whether you prefer self-study, group learning, or a blend of both, the key to success is to find what works best for you and to invest your time and energy into things that you are truly motivated to learn.
Leadership with Passion through Kokorozashi
The key ingredient to success? Passion.
Finding your kokorozashi will unify your passions and skills to create positive change in society. This GLOBIS Unlimited course will help you develop the values and lifelong goals you need to become a strong, passion-driven leader.
In his GLOBIS Unlimited course “Learning Agility,” GLOBIS University lecturer Jake Pratley shares how you can develop your own learning agility to be more efficient and practical in your learning.
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Jake Pratley: Learning agility is the ability to adapt to different circumstances effectively. If you think about evolution, for example, the organisms that could adapt to their environment more successfully were those that went on to evolve. Learning is the same thing.
We need to be able to adapt to changes that are coming around us and successfully learn. In today’s world, the challenges when we try to learn something are very different from the challenges that we had maybe twenty or thirty years ago.
Back then, when you wanted to learn something, it was quite hard to find the information in many cases. Right now, we’ve got the opposite problem: There’s too much information, too many opportunities. And so, the first challenge we need to overcome is being able to identify what we want to learn.
And then, when we we’ve decided that, we need to think about how we can learn in the most effective way.
We have the same problem with how there’s so many ways to learn these days. Whether you learn by yourself, with other people, or on different platforms, you need to make that choice that’s going to be most effective for your learning style.
Learning Agility Strategies for Long-term Success
Answering certain questions effectively is what really gives us learning agility.
The first step, understanding is very, very hard. For example, I’m living in Japan, and I want to learn Japanese. How can I do that? I can pick up a book and try to study by myself. I can enroll in in classes online or face to face. I can make Japanese friends. I have friends who speak very fluent Japanese, and they’ve learned just by going to bars and making a lot of friends.
Questions for an Agile Learner
You have to decide if you want to learn this. Is this an area that you want to invest your time and energy in? That’s a question that we need to answer.
Then, you [ask], “What is the best way to achieve this? What is the way that’s going to actually give me the skills that I need in the time that I’ve got available? Will it be something that I want to continue?”
If you’re someone who prefers to go out to bars and socialize, maybe you should [learn by making friends] rather than being in a classroom. You may not be able to continue to motivate yourself if it’s in an environment where you don’t feel so comfortable.
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