Love and Work

It Just Clicks

Dr. Don, Strengths Finder

On your journey, you’ll often bump into people who want to teach you new skills. And typically they’ll do this as though there is nothing already there inside you. Before you arrive in the classroom or the training session, someone broke the skill down into steps and then applied a sequence to the steps. Then you are taught the steps and the sequence and encouraged to do “deliberate practice” in order to acquire the new skill.

This approach works, sometimes, and is necessary, sometimes.

But other times when you are introduced to a new skill, it will feel as if you’ve done it before. You don’t need the ...