I started writing for WRAL TechWire this year—interviewing amazing people like Small Business Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman, Raleigh Chamber CEO Adrienne Cole, and more. But interviewing someone for an article can be tricky—you don't have a lot of time, and you're trying to fit big perspectives into a few little quotes.
Since it was tricky work, I started making time after each interview to reflect on what went well and what didn't.
- Dr. Sarah Glova, Co-Editor of 8&21, Avid Reflector, and Candy Cane Enthusiast
A gift for future me
After I deliver a class or a presentation, I capture notes about what I want to keep, what to change, and what to delete.
My "keep/change/delete" reflection is an important part of my teaching and speaking process.
- Dr. Sarah Egan Warren, Co-Editor of 8&21 and Grateful “Current Sarah”
Courageous Reflection
Go easy on yourself. Reflection — well and truly done — is ego-bruising. Always remember that excellence is achieved by stumbling, standing up, dusting yourself off, then stumbling again. If you study those stumbles, you’re much less likely to fall down in the future.
Reflection is executive functioning.True courageous reflection galvanizes your willpower. It promotes continuous self-awareness, empowers you, ensures you are valued, and gives you the self-awareness you need to quicken achieving your potential.
If you want to ascend, then do what those who are successful do. Reflect on surprise, frustration, and failure.Make it part of your life.
It will pay off.
- Adapted from, “Don't Underestimate the Power of Self-Reflection” by James R. Bailey and Scheherazade Rehman in Harvard Business Review.
Slow down to speed up
Yes, speed matters. But we can’t focus too much on speed—otherwise there’s no time for reflection, and reflection is critical for learning.
For workgroups, part of the learning process should be to continually step back and ask how refining our view of the destination might help us progress even faster.
- Adapted from, “Reflect more to learn faster” by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, Andrew de Maar, and Maggie Wooll Khan, founder of Khan Academy , in Deloitte Insights
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