To write...

If my learning is connected to my writing here on the blog I haven't learned anything in the last 5 months! Writing at this moment a chapter about how important it is to document your learning, to write it down. So... a good moment to walk the talk. Anyway it's the beginning of a new year so also the time to take up things again. But I'm not going to make a list containing all the things I want to learn till the summer of 2011. That's something I learned: it's easy to make lists but there's where it ends for me. It doesn't function.

My plan for the coming period is exactly what I'm doing now: writing down daily, weekly what has been learned. Or maybe that's already to ambitious. Writing down experiences, questions, observations is probably more realistic and more interesting. Becoming more and more aware that this is the essential element in learning: reflecting, giving words to experiences, becoming aware. Not a very structured and planned way of learning but maybe that's how life is; unplanned and only a little bit structured.

It doesn't mean that I don't have wishes, desires and needs towards learning new things. For example I'm totally into playing the guitar in the last months and I'm getting better every day. But I don't have to write that down in a plan because I just play every day. To write down that I want to improve my Italian doesn't make my Italian better.

So...writing down things is my objective for the coming time. Well...accompanied by some thinking of course. Not all on this blog, would be too much for this blog I guess. I will buy myself a nice, easy to take with you, notebook to write. Old fashioned with a pencil! And then there is still my Dutch blog and Twitter!

Life is wonderful these days when you want to write!!! You will read from me!