Struggle to learn

Written by Jim Chaput
After a 19-year career in financial services, Jim left a leadership position to focus on health and fitness. Jim is a Master Practitioner of Applied Movement Neurology and holds Certificates in Applied Functional Science and 3DMAPS from the Gray Institute. His passion is empowering people to help resolve the pain, tension and insomnia that prevents them from living well.

Or maybe I should have titled it, To learn, struggle. We tend to learn more through our struggles than when things come easily.

I remember a presentation in which the speaker talked about all of the ideal ways of doing things and didn’t address how to overcome issues. During the Q&A, people asked for advice on how to deal with specific challenges they were having. The presenter’s response, “I’ve never had those problems.”

Seriously? If you’ve never had to overcome any significant challenges, how much have you actually learned? If you hold yourself out as an expert, I expect you to have some insight into solutions to common problems.

Would you rather learn from someone who never had to struggle or someone who figured out how to overcome significant challenges?

1 Comment

  1. Georgina

    I’d very much expect anyone I’m learning from to have experience in the good and bad, and have made it to the other side. I have struggles, if they can’t help with them then what’s the point?