BUS 110 Week 6

 Tis week's study re-affirmed something about myself I've known for a long time. I enjoy knowing as much as I can. I often think about characters in some of my favorite shows or movies and realize that so much of most plots rely on someone knowing a lot. I hope I never come across as an arrogant jerk when sharing my knowledge as some characters might like Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory. Instead I hope to be helpful, and trusted for what I know. Along with this is my natural teaching ability.

An example is when we were trying to help a student understand the time it would take an aircraft to taxi into position. After telling them the taxi speed (in knots) they were confused. I wanted to relate to them what that meant in a familiar way by stating the miles per hour speed. But I didn't know the conversion. Nobody in the lab did. More than fifty years of aviation experience in a training lab at the FAA Academy and no one knew the conversion of knots to miles per hour. I had to look it up. I prefer to already know, but I guess I have to learn it somewhere first. Anyway, after I looked it up I took it back to the instructor and the student. Now I know that. I can remember that and help relate it anytime another student needs. I think as long as I remain in this field I will remember this piece of information I looked up one day to help teach someone.

This is important to me because it helps me understand how I learn and why I retain certain knowledge while other things I've learned just don't stick and I have to re-learn them over and over. I know that if I am preparing to teach someone something, what I learn in preparation for that I learn more fully and deeply than anything else.

As I read in "So You Want to Be an Entrepreneur?" which talked about having specific knowledge to start a successful business, I realized that some of it was based on experience. I don't know that I can simply learn how to have the ability to raise money (as it says) without learning through trial and error. But for me, learning how to do something just for myself isn't as useful as learning it in order to help someone.

Hopefully this will transfer not only to my studies in school, but also to learning what I need to know to start a business or move into a new career field.

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