From the course: Cultivating a Growth Mindset (2018)

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Studying vs. learning

Studying vs. learning

From the course: Cultivating a Growth Mindset (2018)

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Studying vs. learning

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- When Steve Jobs was at college, he happened to randomly drop in to a calligraphy class. It was an area that sparked some interest but he didn't think much of it. Fast forward many years later, Jobs was developing an innovative word processing program and had a spark of inspiration. Wouldn't it be fantastic if you could write in different fonts rather than the one size fits all fonts that was available at the time? If Steve Jobs had been studying word processing at the time, is unlikely he would've learned anything about calligraphy or fantasy type fonts. But he had an interest in learning about obscure and random concepts for no other reason than these fields sparked an interest. And through that experience of learning, simply for the joy of learning rather than studying courses that lead to a qualification, he creatively changed the course of word processing forever. When we thing of learning, we can automatically assume we need to study to reach that end goal of acquiring a new…

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