in circles.....

For the moment I stopped my little study on ‘development in self-directed learning’. It doesn’t mean I’m really finished but I wrote down what I found out till now and will certainly take things up again in the future. Simply no time in the coming weeks. But so far I’m quite happy with what I did.
The main conclusion is that I found out that my initial question on what would be steps to develop as a self-directed learner shouldn’t be the question to continue with. As I already wrote in the last blog I think the linear thinking behind the idea of steps and stages is to limited. At the same moment that puts me into a quite challenging position. How to approach things when you don’t want to think (or not only) in a linear way? I’m quite used to think about things in a linear way. Being at the same time aware that I don’t act like that. But to understand things I use ‘linear thinking’. There are models looking at human behaviour that use circles, which is anyway a step out of ‘a simple line’. But also there you see certain steps that lead to improvement….. it still is a line…
Well…I’m sure I’m not the first one thinking that linear thinking doesn’t solve all problems so there must be a lot to find on that topic. Which will be my next move. But will take some time. For the coming weeks a full agenda where I hope to meet some people that can discuss this challenge and help me further.