Do You Train?

Training, coaching, mentoring are all strategies to move you forward. What keeps you from training? Find out why that excuse won't work in this mini podcast.

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Transcript

Do You Train?

Let me ask you something: Do you train?

Now, I don’t mean just in the gym. I mean training, coaching, mentoring — the stuff that helps us get better at just about anything.

The real question is: Do you have the discipline to train? That’s something I ask myself from time to time.

Years ago, I caught a TED Talk by writer Josh Foer — it was all about memory training. And it hooked me. I thought, “Why not give it a try?” So I set out to train my memory. Just for fun, I learned the names of all Shakespeare’s plays — and I’ll be honest, I’ve never even read him. I learned the order of Dickens’ works, and I memorized the list of all the U.S. Presidents in sequence. And I did all of that in less than a day.

That experiment got me thinking bigger about training. Because here’s a fact you can take to the bank: there’s so much in each of us just waiting to be brought out. A healthier body. A sharper mind. A better golf swing. Even a new hobby you’ve always wanted to pick up. You can train yourself in just about anything.

Now, back to memory for a second. People will sometimes tell me, “Wow, you’ve got a good memory.” And almost immediately, they’ll add, “Mine’s terrible.” But you know what I’ve learned? There’s really not “good” or “bad” memory. More often, it’s just untrained.

Same goes for your golf game. Same goes for quilting. Same goes for . . . well, whatever you want to get better at.

My brother-in-law had a great observation of those who take to training and those who don’t. He said, “There are people who spend 25 years in the insurance industry and repeat their first year over and over again.” I’m sure that applies to all occupations.

So, no big secret here: training makes you better. Even at using your own brain. The only thing I encourage you to notice is this — you’re not stuck where you are. You’re not locked into what you can’t do. You’re trainable. You just have to be willing to train.

Saying, “Oh, I’m all thumbs” becomes thumbing your nose at your self-imposed limitations when you decide to train.

Now, maybe knowing Millard Fillmore was the 13th President won’t win me any awards. But here’s what it tells me: the learning train hasn’t left the station — not for me, and not for you.

All the best,

John