Why develop a learning habit?
Hopefully, our value study on ‘Ike loa has answered the “Why learn?” question for you. Why make it habitual? The word habit has a bad rep; when the word is said we will normally think of bad habits like smoking or chewing our fingernails, but creating good habits is one of the best things we can do: Good habits put us on automatic pilot with good practices. This habit riddle, which I had first heard in a Stephen R. Covey workshop, explains this best: “I am your constant companion. I will push you forward to success or I will drag you down to failure. I am completely at your command. 80% of what you do, you might as well hand over to me and I will do it promptly and I will do it correctly. I am easily managed; you must merely be firm with me. Show me what you’d like to have done, and after a couple of lessons, I will do it automatically. I am the servant of all great people. Alas, I am the servant of all failures as well. All who are great, I have made great. All who are failures, I hav
