DY_POTENTIALS

LAW TWO

ALWAYS MAKE YOUR LEARNING GREATER THAN YOUR EXPERIENCE...
Continual learning is essential for lifetime growth. You can have a great deal of experience and be no smarter for all the things you’ve done, seen, and heard. Experience alone is no guarantee of lifetime growth. But if you regularly transform your experiences into new lessons, you will make each day of your life a source of growth. The smartest people are those who can transform even the smallest events or situations into breakthroughs in thinking and action. Look at all of life as a school and every experience as a lesson, and your learning will always be greater than your experience.
Our ability to learn continually is what enables us to always have a future that’s bigger than the past. There is a method to doing this. Every experience you’ve ever had has two parts to it: the things about the experience that
worked and the things that didn’t work. By worked we mean that those parts of the experience moved you forward, adding to your sense of capability and confidence. By didn’t work we mean the opposite: those aspects of the experience blocked or undermined your sense of capability and confidence.
Once you identify these two aspects of every experience, you begin to become aware of new ways to maximize what worked, and to bypass or eliminate what didn’t. New insights, wisdom, and better, more effective ways of taking action become possible. In the process, the experience is transformed into a source of growth and gains new positive meaning.