{"id":3783,"date":"2011-02-28T09:24:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T17:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redfindevelop.wpengine.com\/blog\/?p=3783"},"modified":"2020-10-05T13:12:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T20:12:32","slug":"knowers_and_learners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/knowers_and_learners\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowers and Learners"},"content":{"rendered":"

At breakfast earlier this month, my friend Roy Gilbert<\/a> made an offhand reference to two types of people, knowers and learners. It was a distinction I’d never heard before. But I liked the idea of identifying someone as a learner, just because it’s so hard to make any change to our identity, unless part of our identity is itself a commitment to change.
\nAt work I often marvel that the self-professed raconteur doesn’t become, for just one meeting, a sphinx. Why doesn’t the tried-and-convicted critic shock everyone just once with a simple affirmation? Why can’t I do these things? I don’t know.\u00a0A few days after I met Roy, the great Twitterer\u00a0Eric Barker<\/a> pointed out a Harvard Business Review article, “The Best Way to Use the Last Five Minutes of the Day,” suggesting how we can become learners<\/a>:
\nEvery day, before leaving the office, save a few minutes to think about what just happened. Look at your calendar and compare what actually happened \u2014 the meetings you attended, the work you got done, the conversations you had, the people with whom you interacted, even the breaks you took \u2014 with your plan for what you wanted to have happen. Then ask yourself three sets of questions:<\/em><\/p>\n