S01E03 The Living of The Knowledge of Life Episode (with Tames Rietdijk)

With Guest: Tames Rietdijk, founder and former CEO at Business Forensics

Check in Question:

• Did you ever play hooky or cut class in school?

Big Ideas:

• Learning as a way of life
• Balance between “living the life of my knowledge, living of the knowledge of life”
• Would lose perspective if I focused my learning on only one area
• Living of the knowledge of life is learning from the signs and your interpretation 
• Sometimes your environment doesn’t always allow you to transform you into who you want to be
• Not using the knowledge of the past to inform the future
• Learning through experiences and reflection
• Putting myself out of my comfort zone to apply what I am learning from books
• The range of people’s opinions from failure to success
• Learning from the feedback of others that is the opposite of the feedback you would give yourself
• The importance of looking at your drivers (sometimes they are hidden)
• The habit of relearning 
• The importance of seeing the business world from the inside, rather than studying it from the outside
• Letting go of people who may be super productive, but who give feedback in a critical manner
• The power of silence
• The sense of reassurance and certainty that comes with data and numbers
• Supporting people to learn and understanding that people’s experience and maturity shifts how they learn
• The difference between mentoring and coaching and how to apply them with those you lead
• A sense of autonomy matters
• Critical and conscious thinking and the importance of being mindful of your own assumptions 
• Recognizing your own assumptions and beliefs, so that you based your decisions on facts
• The older you get, the more knowledge you gain, and the more experiences you have, yet the more stuck you are in your assumptions.
• Thinking your assumptions are the truth makes it harder to step back from them
• Experiencing the knowledge so that you internalize your learning more
• The training triangle between participants, trainer, and knowledge

References:

• Gary Vaynerchuk

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