Increasing the Rate of Success by Learning from Others

Observing children's behaviour is very fascinating. The fact that children can learn and absorb very fast are because they are learning from others. While they observe and scrutinize adults' action and speech, they learn. The challenge is to provide them with right principles in life so that they learn the right behaviours.

Learning from others is actually a lifelong process.

I was travelling with a few friends recently. One thing good about travelling with friends, especially in long journey, is the opportunity to chat and discuss many personal stories and experience. It is even more interesting since all the friends were coming from various background and exposure in life and career. For a journey of 6-7 hours each direction, there were plentiful of subjects to talk about.

Without going into details of so many issues, good and bad stories, jokes, men's joke and opinions being talked about, learning from others through this kind of candid but interactive sessions can help us in increasing the rate of success in what we want to achieve:

1. Personal family background can be a factor to achieve success - A well known example is about a successful businessman or stateman coming from a family that has the same success in those areas. Unless we really want to be successful in a totally different area, the family background can be helpful if we were to be successful in the same area;
2. "Old stories" for others, new ideas for you - There were so many "old stories" being shared across in a candid and fun manners. In many cases, you may find that some of those "old stories" can be a refreshing new ideas for you to further explore and relate to what you are doing to achieve your personal goals;
3. Generate new solutions from listening the problems of others - People will always have problems and challenges in their life. "To err is human" is a fact of life. Learning from others also means to listen to their problems and challenges and how they solve them. Talking and listening attentively to people is an enriching experience as we are learning or developing new solutions for the same problems and challenges that we may face in the future.

We need to create and grab opportunities which will allow us to listen and learn from others. Nowadays, many professional bodies and societies are organizing various regular functions allowing their members to network, interact, meet and talk to each others.

My recent travelling with friends in a long journey was another example of opportunity to listen, share and learn from others. By doing so, we may increase the rate of success by learning the right and proven formula and techniques.

Jam