Stuff I Learned Yesterday

John F. Kennedy once said, “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” The name of this podcast is Stuff I Learned Yesterday and I begin each episode with the phrase, “I believe that if you aren’t learning, you aren’t living.” Learning is incredibly important.

Learning comes from a myriad of sources. It comes through formal classroom instruction. It comes from laboratory environments. It comes through mentoring or tutoring. It comes from experience. It comes from making mistakes. It comes from observation. It comes by asking questions. Read More...

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I don’t know if you heard or not, but my family and I just returned from a trip to Hawaii. Don’t worry, I won’t be talking about our time there again today. Instead, I want to tell you about something that happened as we were preparing to make the trip.

Before we get to that part of this story, let me give you a little backstory. I was born at a very young age. When I was 11 years old my 6th grade teacher noticed that I was having trouble seeing the chalkboard and told my parents that I should have my eyes checked.

The eye exam revealed that I not only needed glasses, but I needed them badly. I don’t know what my vision score is, but based on the thickness of my lenses, it’s bad. Without my glasses the whole world is a massive blur. One time when I was in 9th grade a kid pushed me down and my glasses came off my face. I was literally crawling around on my hands and knees fumbling around for them like you’ve seen on TV shows. Finally someone else came along and they were kind enough to find my glasses and give them to me. Read More...

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Today is the Friday Forum!! In today’s episode of Stuff I Learned Yesterday I share contributions from Bryan. You can participate in Friday Forum by visiting our Feedback Page or calling our voice feedback line at 304-837-2278. Read More...

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On the playground at soccer practice the other evening, my daughter met a new friend. She was one of Jonas’ teammates younger sisters, and because I was on playground duty – I was able to overhear their entire conversation. They were not fast friends. In fact, though they played together well, and from a distance seemed to really enjoy each other’s company, their conversation was pretty heated. It started in a very typical, “My dad is stronger than your dad” sort of way. The little girl coolly proclaimed while swinging back and forth from the monkey bars “I am the best at everything!” To which Marin replied, “No, My Bubby is. He’s really good at everything.” I didn’t intervene, because I was enjoying for a moment how highly Marin was speaking of her brother.

Then, the littler girl again repeated her proclamation, that she was the best at everything, to which Marin replied, “ Actually, did you know that everyone is special and good at something? We are all created for different things with different purposes.” The little girl said, “Yeah! I knew that!” and by the end of the night, they were calling each other best friends. Their resiliency and ability to get over their own egos so quickly to become fast friends was impressive and admirable.

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Years before I met my wife and we had our baby I heard a song about being a parent that stuck with me. The song is by Paul Simon and its called father and daughter. I really liked the song right away and I was still years away from being a father myself.

The chorus goes like this... Read more and listen to this episode...

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