Leadership in Action: Dividends and Interest - Inner Motivation Translates into Real Learning

Dividends & Interest

Inner Motivation Translates into Real Learning

Craig Chappelow

There I sat, somewhere in the Guatemalan highlands. I shifted uncomfortably on the hard chair and stared at the woman sitting across the tiny plywood table from me. She was writing a vocabulary word on the brown butcher paper spread out on the tabletop, which served as our blackboard. My head hurt from the strain of almost seven hours of one-on-one conversation in a language I had not used for fifteen years. My backside ached from the undersized furniture. Thanks to the airline, I was wearing the same clothes I had worn when I arrived three days earlier. So how was it that under such uncomfortable circumstances, I was having one of the best learning experiences ...