Monday, February 8, 2016

The learning...

"Learning is the act of acquiring new, or modifying and reinforcing, existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information. The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals, plants and some machines."

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In the age of technologies whatever we learn get obsolete rapidly. Specially in technologies field. It's growing so fast, that it's becoming quite cumbersome to keep up with the update of technologies. But there is some good news, what happens with the technology few things does not change rapidly unlike technologies.

Human behaviours do not change often. It takes decades to shift the behaviour of humans and still few behaviours we carry from our ancestors. Few things we adapt faster like new trend in purchasing and adaptation of new fashions etc but the elements like emotions, body language, religious belief and human interaction take abundant time to change. So, it's worth investing the time to understand and learn these elements. A good salespersons keep these things in his arsenal to grab the best deal. I changed my interview outcome from pass to hire in splits of seconds for few candidates for their behaviours even though they were totally misfit for the position and I got the best performers in the team.

Negotiation, it's very misleading term. Most of the people use it for squeezing the money from the deal but best negotiation outcome must be win win for both parties. It's not zero sum game. Negotiation is all about maximising the values for both parties. When you have to  trade with your opponent in future then it becomes more crucial to get the best deal for the both parties without making other party feel cheated. Would you like to be with the person who have cheated you? So, it's imperative to learn some basics of negotiation. It will help you to maximise the value for your next job switch, your next vehicle purchase and your next real state deal etc.

Law, everything we do is governed by some law. State laws are imposed and encouraged to maintain the discipline in society. But sometime we face the difficulty of not knowing it. It's misused against us by the people who holds the power and authority. So, take some times out from your busy schedule and read them. Few are there which must be used more often but we are not aware of them.

Investing most of us know earning by hard work. But apart from the active income, investing in stock, commodity and real state can be the best source of passive earning and may prove to be the game changers in your life. Take the example of equity. Every company has the story embedded in theirs balance-sheet. Learn to decrypt those stories and then investing in equity is not a risky business.

Learn to Unlearn we give the importance on learning but we forget one most basic thing which we ignore "Unlearning". Unlearning is equally important like learning. If we keep holding us with the the things whatever we learnt earlier, we can't think about new things with different perspective. We can't expect the different result from doing the same thing again and again. So, here it becomes more important we forget the old learning and start afresh.

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