Desire to Learn
Leader is supposed to learn continually: so should a manager. Without continuous learning, there is stagnations in a manager’s career and boredom sets in. In offices, there is often rejoicing at the thought, thank you God, it’s Friday!” why? Does God differentiate between Sunday and Monday? Does the sun say, “Because it is Sun-day today, I will get shine brighter and on other day, I will not do my work?”.
When, you get stuck in routine, are trapped in fixed ways of thinking and doing things, and there is no new knowledge or learning, boredom is bound to set in. Then you require breaks, weekends and vacations.
This is not to say that you should not have holidays and tie with family and friends. But every day can be day of celebration; your Monday can be a beautiful as Saturday and Sunday.
Every day is a celebration because every day, you are learning. And you will never get bored of yourself. You hate the days when you have no work to do. That does not mean you become workaholic, you love your work and find joy in it. You read books, listen to music, watch movies and go on long drives with family and friends.
You can achieve this if work is not considered a “task” to be completed., but an opportunity to learn. One may think it is easy when you are the owner of a company or your own boss. This is not true. Some people who are not owners but professionals and managers. But they do not live their lives from one weekend to the next, one increment to the next or one job to the next.
They have desire to learn. They work very hard and learn a lot. They learn by reading official reports, listening to others, travelling or resolving a problem in their companies. They draw on the experience of seniors and juniors, their children, families, friends and their mentors. They learn from professional journal, newspapers, televisions channels, movies and from meetings, seminars and professional courses. They imbibe life lessons from watching the sunrise a passing cloud or the movement of an ant. Because they have a learning mindset, they learn from anything and everything.
The whole universe become their university. And in that state of mind, they become deep thinkers, meditative in nature, and are able to find solutions to complex problems.
“happy learning”
