Learning

• We are born as Learners, not as Knowers. — John W Lewis

• We learn by trying, not by doing. — John W Lewis

• If learning is fun then learning about learning should be ecstatic. — John W Lewis

• Perspective drives perception. What you see is what you are positioned to see. — John W Lewis

• Our educational institutions operate from evaluation models, not learning models. — John W Lewis

• Our educational institutions are driven by the tyranny of the tester. — John W Lewis

• We have an education system where there is zero expectation that anyone will understand anything. — John W Lewis

• Learning is the gaining of knowing, satisfied with some degree of reason. — John W Lewis

• The fast learner can recite the answers, but the slow learner can solve the problems. — John W Lewis

• You can teach wisdom to the ignorant but not to the arrogant. — John W Lewis

• The worst possible mental state of any organization is having a poor definition of learning. — John W Lewis

• To become a Thought Leader there is a period of time that must be spent being a Pioneer. — John W Lewis

• Situational awareness requires an understanding of both the observed and the observer; both insight and perspective; both evidence and premise. — John W Lewis

• Too often, we view innovation as an unpredictable event, as if there is no way to prepare for, capture, and initiate the process. — John W Lewis

• Productive goals involve mistakes; inventive goals involve learnings. — John W Lewis

• Creativity has no obligation to work in routine, but innovation does. — John W Lewis

• Appreciation is a required organizational learning objective, regardless whether Bloom can measure it in the classroom or not. — John W Lewis

• When you can teach a course on Critical Thinking, but can’t test the students for understanding, pedagogy is the problem, not the curriculum. — John W Lewis

• All organizations are “learning” organizations – some with more learning disabilities than others. — John W Lewis

• The only real sustainable solution is a real learning organization. — John W Lewis

Knowledge

• It is easier to believe in something than to research it beforehand. — John W Lewis

• Storytelling is mainly about the narrative intelligence required before the telling. — John W Lewis

• My answer is not simplistic; it is elegant. — John W Lewis

• There is no singular without a set. — John W Lewis

• Critical thinking begins with acknowledging your programming. — John W Lewis

• Those who understand the least are the most confident. — John W Lewis

• The real problem with stupidity is that it doesn’t stop at the doorstep of self-assessment. — John W Lewis

• Many graduates are educated beyond their intelligence. — John W Lewis

• Stop seeking concise knowledge and start seeking consequential knowledge. — John W Lewis

• Science becomes an obstacle to progress when we forget that this shorthand term represents the scientific method of reasoning. — John W Lewis

• The reasons for and behind everything we know come from an explanation. — John W Lewis

• What gets measured gets done – but what gets modeled gets measured. — John W Lewis

• You’re either telling the whole story or usurping authority. — John W Lewis

• A Change Agent is only as good as their model. — John W Lewis

• OCR works because of the R. — John W Lewis

• Expedience towards knowing can limit the questions towards understanding. — John W Lewis

• After decades of developing knowledge workers, it’s time to start developing knowledge leaders. — John W Lewis

• Understanding is the knowledge of the whole story from at least two perspectives. — John W Lewis

• If you are just an Expert, your job is about to be outsourced or embedded in a microchip. — John W Lewis

• Without a map we are lost, in geography and epistemology. — John W Lewis

Decisions

• A reflective decision works better when the reactive decision was withheld. — John W Lewis

• Policy-making is mandatory – politics is optional. — John W Lewis

• It is better to decide based on error preference than on preference alone. — John W Lewis

• Data without knowledge is useless. And knowledge without data is a useless education. — John W Lewis

• For matters of the heart, I trust the musician over the scientist. — John W Lewis

• Being reckless is not wreck-less. — John W Lewis

• Life is not a linear equation. — John W Lewis

• I can write, and I can edit, but I can’t edit what I write. — John W Lewis

• If you want to go all out, you have to be all in. — John W Lewis

• In an operating room, I prefer my doctor’s name be followed by M.D. rather than Ph.D. — John W Lewis

• You will not reach your potential until you realize you have more than 5 senses. — John W Lewis

• You can rely on your eyes as long as your goals are not over the horizon. — John W Lewis

• When we don’t think from our sense of balance, we appear like children gathering fish on a pre-tsunami beach. — John W Lewis

• When we don’t think from our sense of balance, we think with the minds of locust. — John W Lewis

• These words are the primary enemy of innovation and sustainability: It works for me today. — John W Lewis

• A lie of omission, ironically, is the biggest lie we can tell. — John W Lewis

• Within dysfunction, authority is granted to those who are the most offended. — John W Lewis

• The implication, not the evidence, is what stops many from accepting the truth. — John W Lewis

• As now fights later, only maturity considers the now we will want later. — John W Lewis

• Stop trying to build trust. Build transparency – the trust will follow. — John W Lewis

Questions

• You will only find answers to the question being asked. — John W Lewis

• Knowledge is no longer the ultimate power – questioning is power. — John W Lewis

• You can lead a horse to knowledge but you cannot make it thirst. — John W Lewis

• All knowledge is just an answer to a question. We should teach questioning skills before knowledge. — John W Lewis

• You are what you ask. — John W Lewis

• Starting with WHY is good but starting with WHEREFORE is better. — John W Lewis

• One man’s HOW is another man’s WHY. — John W Lewis

• Are rhetorical questions really rhetorical? — John W Lewis

• We control our destiny from the balance of curiosity (?) and conviction (!). — John W Lewis

• Curiosity killed the cat, and conviction killed the rat. — John W Lewis

• Three strikes and you’re out because three curiosities brings conviction. — John W Lewis

• Without curiosity, there would be no significant innovation, or significant foul-ups. — John W Lewis

• A fact is just today’s conviction, which may or may not be true, today or tomorrow. — John W Lewis

• Are you fact-finding or truth-seeking? — John W Lewis

• There will always be those who give themselves the false sense of limited choices. — John W Lewis

• Question everything, including the limitations of your perspective. — John W Lewis

• You can keep people from questioning if you can convince them it’s still working. — John W Lewis

• You will eventually lose if you refuse to muse. — John W Lewis

• If a leader is not leading change, then what are they leading? — John W Lewis

• Questioning the authorization process is better than questioning authority. — John W Lewis

Life

• If you want to understand the world, understand organizational learning disabilities. — John W Lewis

• The meaning of life is to determine whether our life has meaning. — John W Lewis

• I explain, therefore I am. — John W Lewis

• Intention is a dimension. — John W Lewis

• Hear at 528 Hz, because we are not just listeners of sound, we are resonators of soundwaves. — John W Lewis

• Find a good addiction before a bad one finds you. — John W Lewis

• It is impossible to deny yourself something and not gain something else. — John W Lewis

• It is impossible to have disruption without both problem and opportunity. — John W Lewis

• Some will sacrifice themselves to give to others; they are the stars. Some will sacrifice others to give to themselves; they are the black holes. — John W Lewis

• Destroy a nation as you would a person - give them what they want. — John W Lewis

• Recognizing that we may want what does not work, that there is such a thing as insidious want, is what separates the adults from the children. — John W Lewis

• The truly ingenious ideas can only come from the truly tortured mind. — John W Lewis

• A horse that has been broken does not know it is broken – such is the nature of blindness – and total control. — John W Lewis

• Though we may stand so close today, you and I travel through space and time on vastly separated planes, which merely intersect, here, and now. — John W Lewis

• Society can be explained, knowing it is full of pampered children that have not yet learned consequence, and unloved children that are still acting out. — John W Lewis

• Our life’s struggle is like an undercover cop, remembering the good of our purpose while surrounded by evil. — John W Lewis

• Falling in love with this world would be like the caterpillar falling in love with the silky cocoon. — John W Lewis

• First we say someone should do something; then a few say they will do it; then fewer still get it done. — John W Lewis

• Flow is normal. Mindless routine is abnormal. — John W Lewis

• Many are Knowers; Some are Learners; Few are Truth Seekers. — John W Lewis