Just sharing my musing, triggered by Dr Maxwell Maltz's quotes as appended below:

At the end of the day, each and every one of us has to take full charge of our own life, as we navigate the Highway of Life.

To be successful, and to stay resilient, we need to play the game of life to the full tilt.

Drawing upon what Dr Maxwell Maltz and his Psycho-Cybernetics classic have had taught us, we just have to rely on our creative resourcefulness in tapping the goal-striving capability and the six higher-order mental faculties already naturally endowed in our built-in success mechanism to get the ball rolling.

To up our ante and ramp up speed, there are three important things, at least from my own experiences, we must do:

1) increase our level of awareness of what's happening around us [Readers may want go and explore the philosophy of the 7 Levels of Awareness, as postulated by the late Bob Proctor. Just go to the PGI corporate website];

2) increase our learning ability and agility, in terms of knowledge acquisition [Readers may want to join the Learning How to Learn Mastermind Community to gain more insights];

3) increase the bandwith and depth of our strategy repertoire, so as to embrace the Law of Requisite Variety to help deal with evolving challenges - and opportuntiies - of today's VUCA or TUNA world, in conjunction with the foregoing;

If interested, readers can go and peruse the following recommended books, which are perennial favourites of mine:

1. Peak Learning, by Ron Gross;
2. Self-University, by Charles Hayes;
3. The Power of Focus, by Les Hewitt;
4. Choosing the Future, by Stuart Wells;
5. Thinkertoys, by Michael Michalko;
6. Strategy for You, by Rich Horwath;
7. The Anticipatory Organisation: Turn Disruption and Change Into Opportunity and Advantage , by Daniel Burrus; (applicable to every professional, even though it has been written for companies!)

Godspeed to everyone!

From my perspective, I reckon, for all professionals who want to stay relevant - and remain ahead - in their forward trajectory, these evolving initiatives of re-set, re-adjust, re-start, re-focus, rejuve, and renew, have to be the name of the game in today's VUCANT world!

This is akin to productivity strategist Stephen R Covey's 7th Habit of Sharpening the Saw!

Sharpening the saw means preserving and enhancing your greatest asset - YOU!

This is done through taking time to take care for your body, brain, heart and soul!

More importantly, since rapid change is constant, and that our skills and knowledge are finite, it follows that being curious and able to learn new skills and knowledge quickly are also a prerequisite for thriving in the VUCANT world of today.

 The Anatomy of a Powerful Agile Learner:

 A quick visual summary of the five factors of Learning Agility:

Continuing from an earlier post:

Dilip Mukerjea continues to write in his latest book, Learning How to Learn (still in the works; not yet released; this is just a sneak peek!):

In what I term ‘adaptagility’, we need to be adaptive and agile in the VUCA world. 

Curiosity, risk-taking, and reflection are central to Learning Agility. 

People who are highly learning agile have a sense of wonder, a readiness to seek out the unfamiliar, and an ability to unpack this new knowledge in actionable ways. 

In today’s everevolving, ever-challenging business landscape, these qualities are in great demand, seen increasingly as critical to a company’s success, and an individual’s prospects in life. 

In view of the dire shortage of individuals and institutions addressing this issue, I offer the AGILE concept as an option that can be activated in countries across the world, where AGILE represents 

Academy of Governance, Innovation, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship. 

The AGILE Mandate: To get people to see themselves as better than they are; to transport them into the future to spot opportunities, and triumph against adversity, to become torchbearers of excellence. 

AGILE aims to leverage its consciousness of virtues and values, by inspiring its membership to heal the body, feed the spirit, and illumine the intellect, in all walks of life. Its purpose is directed at every level of society, to inspire the creation of ‘leading learners’ and ‘learning leaders’. 

THE CONCEPT OF ‘ADAPTAGILITY’ WITHIN THE AGILE FRAMEWORK 

Tapping into deep processes, harnessing the forces of attraction, influence, and serendipity, and harvesting the fruits garnered from applied imagination. 

Learning to dance to the rhythms of sfumato = openness to uncertainty and ambiguity, willingness to embrace the unknown, and yet maintain perspective. 

‘ADAPTAGILITY’ is the confluence of being adaptive and agile in a quest to catalyse human INTELLIGENCE = sensing, thinking, feeling, responding ~ in an ambience of space, time, energy, and information...through continual creative expression and improvisation. 

With purposeful engagement in the domains of governance, business, education, and social causes, we have to meet and defeat the whirlwinds of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. 

Competitive intensity is escalating. There is a premium on speed, flexibility, and innovation. Thus, there is a call for the ‘spirit of enterprise’ to awaken at all levels of society. 

The activities within the AGILE Framework are designed to impart a range of skills for immediate application: to reduce complexity, accelerate learning, extract clarity from clutter, convert extensive information into intensive insights, and recognise design beneath disorder...all directed at applications that engender peak-value Returns on Imagination (ROI). 

AGILE embodies the ideals of Samurai Service, which enables us to become able, and helps us to help others in soulconscious ways. 

Following such precepts, we engender and inspire Soul-Smart Leadership. 

This means that real power, as true as an electric current... the power of the inner reality, the engine of the highest ideals of being human, gives wings to our dreams, rides the waves of creativity, and illumines the darkness of ignorance, all of which is AdaptAgility in Action!

Dilip Mukerjea writes, in his new book, Learning How to Learn (still in the works, for this is a sneak preview):

THE CRUCIAL 21st CENTURY MANDATE FOR LEARNING AGILITY 

Learning agility is the X-factor that can propel individuals and organisations ahead in a VUCA world relentless threats, challenges, and opportunities. This characteristic applies to students, executives, and leaders in the domains of education, business, and governance. 

[The VUCA world refers to one that is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous]. 

Learning agility measures an individual’s learning ability and learning orientation to learn, unlearn, and relearn. Imagining a metaphorical dashboard, it indicates an individual’s learning preferences and drive towards excelling in continuously changing scenarios. 

The elements that would enable to shift, learn, and transform coalesce into the acronym CURE: cross-skilling, up-skilling, re-skilling, expert-skilling. 

Learning agility refers to the essential behavioral competencies that predispose an individual to learn new things faster than others. 

Learning orientation refers to crucial cognitive competencies that allow a person to learn quickly by identifying patterns, logical rules and data trends. 

Learning agility is a combination of skills that enables a person to learn, relearn and adapt to changing situations easily. It comprises both the ability and the attitude to learn, and is critical for nurturing a future-ready workforce that can adapt to changing work environment. 

Learning agility is not necessarily an academic skill, rather it encapsulates an individual’s ability and passion to quickly study a new problem and use their own learning process to gain deep understanding before making a decision. 

Korn Ferry encapsulates Learning Agility as the Organisational X-Factor. This phenomenon is sometimes described as “knowing what to do when you don’t know what to do”; it requires an open and receptive mindset. 

Those who demonstrate strong “learning agility” in the guise of mental agility often excel at being able to study, analyse, and understand new situations and new business problems. 

When an organisation and its staff members are agile, and inevitable changes and challenges occur, employees and work processes are less likely to become stressed, because this is a normal way of working. Korn Ferry research informs us that Learning agility encompasses five factors: 

Mental agility—embracing complexity, examining problems in unique ways, making fresh connections, and staying inquisitive. 

People agility—being open-minded toward others, enjoying interaction with diverse groups, bringing out the best in others. 

Change agility—willingness to lead transformation efforts, continuously exploring new options. 

Results agility—delivering results in tough situations, responding to challenge, inspiring others to achieve more than they thought possible. 

Self-awareness—being reflective, understanding strengths and weaknesses, seeking feedback and personal insight.

A brand new book is in the works by Dilip Mukerjea. It's entitled:

Learning How to Learn. 

It's going to be jam-packed with skill-sets, tool-sets, action-sets and mindsets for navigating the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

It will also share a gamut  of strategies, tactics, hints and tips on how to enhance your learning agility.

This is just a provisional front cover.

QUOTES TO PONDER

from economist and author of Unlimited Wealth, Paul Zane Pilzer:

1) "Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things fastest."

2) "Success in business depends largely on your adaptability skills - the ability with which you learn new things."

3) "How much you discipline your mind to step out of its routines and and look into new ways of doing things that you haven't yet adopted is what will determine your economic potential!"