by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
I learned something big and useful this week – really useful. After kicking myself for not knowing it already, I grew some humility. Learning comes from unexpected people, times, and places. I resolve to use what energy I have to pay attention for the next thing coming my way.<\/strong><\/p>\n I learned something this week – something big:<\/p>\n You can type just about anything in the URL field of a browser and go somewhere meaningful<\/p><\/blockquote>\n For example,<\/p>\n who was the star of bewitched<\/p><\/blockquote>\n took me to a Google search page with the first site displayed being “Bewitched and the Elizabeth Montgomery Web Site.” (“Bewitched” was a 1960s television show in the U.S.)<\/p>\n Another example,<\/p>\n 2 + 3 =<\/p><\/blockquote>\n took me to a Google calculator page with the answer.There are too many examples to give.<\/p>\n This floored me. I use browsers all day seven days a week and I didn’t know you could do this. It is heart breaking to realize how much time I have wasted by not knowing this. I could have been… And then I could have used the extra time to… And then there is all that other stuff… I have been using this new knowledge all the time since learning it.<\/p>\n I felt so stupid for not knowing this! Deep breath, sigh, wait a moment.<\/p>\n Step one: use this new knowledge to do a better job and save time.<\/p>\n Step two: forgive myself for not knowing it, yet. At least I learned, and at my age learning new things is quite an accomplishment.<\/p>\n Step three: commence the rest of my life.<\/p>\n I learned a big, useful learning from an unexpected source. I don’t even remember what blog I was reading when I learned this. The lesson sticks with me more than the source.<\/p>\n Something else I (re)learned – humility. There is much I don’t know, and not just the latest techno-fad. Basic, fundamental, use-every-five-minutes-of-the-day techniques and tools. Swallow hard here. I will pay attention and I will try to pay attention to everyone I meet. I do not know the source of the next big learning. I don’t know the place, the time, or the person where I will find it.<\/p>\n I will also continue to forgive myself for being human. I have a finite amount of energy. Things will go past me, things that would be good to learn. I won’t catch everything, but that is alright.<\/p>\n Just stay humble, keep noticing, continue to learn, and enjoy each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips I learned something big and useful this week – really useful. After kicking myself for not knowing it already, I grew some humility. Learning comes from unexpected people, times, and places. I resolve to use what energy I have to pay attention for the next thing coming my way. I learned something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6,3,1],"tags":[142,129,126],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","category-observation","category-technology","category-uncategorized","tag-learning","tag-observation","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}