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“Those who learn fastest, WIN” – Rypple
By David Priemer on July 7, 2009 in Thought Leadership “Those who learn fastest, WIN When Dave Spofford , a Rypple user and CEO of Invoice Insight , shared these words with me back in May, I didn’t realize at the time how totally profound they were.
"I've learned a lot about how my mind works by paying attention to how I unicycle," Ben declared in preparation for high school graduation. And from the time he was 12, Ben paid attention to nothing so much as unicycling. When students elsewhere were puzzling over, say, the periodic table, Ben, along with a handful of schoolmates, was mostly struggling up and racing down New England mountainsides, dodging rocks, mud and other obstacles. His "frantic fights to maintain balance" demanded both deep focus and moment-to-moment planning. But they gave him something missing from most classrooms today—a passion for pursuing challenges and inhaling the skills and information (to say nothing of the confidence) to master life's complexities.
Psychology Today: Education: Class Dismissed
