
One of my favourite comedians, Emo Phillips, tells his audiences that he learned about women the hard way - from books.
In a recent conference session about learning, we split into small groups of three and were asked to each share a story of a time we had recently learned something, preferably as a consultant and preferably from a project with a client.
After we told our stories, which definitely came from direct experience, not from books, we then discussed what constituted the learning. Were there elements in common that might suggest a definition?