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    What Did You Learn Today?

    Friday, October 12, 2007, 06:56 AM EST [General]

    I wonder if any of you know the name Leo Buscaglia. I learned a very powerful thing from Leo and would like to share it today. Leo Buscaglia use to appear on PBS. He had a course at UCLA called Love 101. At 19, he was my real first introduction to seeing the big picture in life and a whole new perspective. As a kid from the inner city streets of Boston, this wasn't exactly a common theme amongst my peers, however it spoke to me loudly.

    During one of his PBS presentations Leo talked of his childhood. He was from a traditional Italian family and at dinner his father would ask each of his children, "What did you learn today?" If you didn't come up with something you may have learned at school or some other way, you had to get up, go to the encyclopedia and learn something new.

    Now imagine if you learned one new fact each day, how much would that matter? Think back a month, 3 months, last year at this time. If you learned one more thing each day, no matter how simple, what would you know today? My dear friend Ron Eslinger said to me after I mentioned I had so many books I have yet to read that sit in my study, "Tom, I promised myself I would read one page each day. Before I knew it, I was reading all those books I didn't before." Same concept applied... and very effective.

    So... what did you learn today?

    Tom

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    I LOVE Leo Buscaglia's book "Living Loving and Learning". It changed my life too. Thanks for bringing back the memories.

    At that time I was also reading Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled. Remember that one! Great book.

    Cool.

    Celeste

    Celeste
    October 12, 2007
    09:56 AM EST

    Hi Tom:

    Many wonderful memories reading "Loving Each Other"! At a time when I was estranged from my kids, I bought three copies; kept one for myself and gave the other two copies to my kids for Christmas (they were in their early 20's at the time). This book brought us back together as a family.

    As to the ongoing learning thing, I tend to spend at least an hour or so per day (sometimes a lot more) online and with books and magazines studying information on hypnosis and NLP. That could be anything from reading over and practicing scripts, learning new techniques, marketing ideas, etc. It's not a chore - it's something I always look forward to doing!

    I just want to add that you are never too old to learn. I thought it might be difficult to do at my age, but letting go of that barrier in my mind has opened up a wonderful second career for me. So as I near the end of my sixth decade of life, next week I'm looking forward to taking the NLP Masters course with Wil Horton. I know I can do this. Besides, Wil is such a great teacher, failure just isn't an option.

    Best regards,

    Sheila
    October 12, 2007
    02:17 PM EST