Hello again!

Well, you didn't expect me to say much more than that, did you? I may be old fashioned, but bloggers are awfully public about their personal lives. I suppose if they were older they would know better. I mean, I might want to be President some day. So I'm not going to pile on any dirt anyone can dig up later. That's just foolhardy.

But this blog is an assignment in learning about Web 2.0. (I can hardly wait for Web. 3.0.) And I'm supposed to write my reactions to yesterday's lesson on the 71/2 habits of highly effective lifelong learners. Specifically, which habit is easiest and which is the most difficult. Well, that pretty much speaks for itself, I think. I mean, the easiest, of course is the first, Begin with the end in mind. Only breathing is easier than putting a thought into one's mind. I might decide, for example, that the end goal is to be a billionaire. That's easy. The other habits, which are steps toward reaching that goal, are more difficult to a greater or lesser degree. The most difficult of the habits is Teach/mentor others. First, I need to have completely learned for myself what I plan to teach. And second, I have to understand the learner's learning style and the ways to communicate to that learning style compared and contrased to my own learning style and know how to communicate to the learner the various dynamics of the subject matter as it relates to the learner's prior knowledge and life experience and the learner's interpretation of that knowledge and life experience based on the learner's world view and receptivity to my style of communicating that subject matter based on the learner's learning style through the filter of a contrasting learning style and possible clash of world views based on varying interpretations of different life experiences and interpretations of events. That in itself would seem to require more preparation than any of the other habits listed. At least that's the way it seems to me. Anyone beg to differ?