After decades of facilitating and hosting gatherings, you might think the learning stops. It doesn’t. Here is why I am still investing in learning to facilitate, and why I hope you will keep learning too.
The Moment You Stop Learning
The late and very great Will Wise, who I co-wrote Ask Powerful Questions with, used to say, “The moment you stop learning is the minute you start dying.”
And Will lived into this more than anybody I know on planet Earth. He passed away with the book Wake Up Grateful open on his desk. Cancer sucks and those last couple weeks were very hard, and yet he was reading a book, learning about how to wake up grateful.
Why I Am Still Investing in My Own Learning
So why am I still learning to facilitate? I run this practice hosting, in my biased opinion, the world’s coolest, best, most interactive, engaging, unique conference and summit for some of the top facilitator, leader, educator, and group trainer kind of people, called the Connectors Summit every December.
And yet I am still learning. I’ve spent way over $200,000 on my own learning and development. Spending time with mentors. Reaching out to people that I otherwise wouldn’t connect with.
I do that because I believe the minute that I stop learning is the moment that I start dying.
From Lifelong Learner to Lifelong Liver
I know in this connector community that we’re creating, there are a lot of people who identify as lifelong learners. And I would invite you in this moment to learn an updated name for that: being a lifelong “liver” (not the organ).
Meaning: someone who is continuously committed to being alive.
One of my favorite quotes on planet Earth is, “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do that,” because that’s what the world needs, people who have come alive by Howard Thurman.
Why I Teach This Stuff for Free
It’s why I teach all this stuff for free. It’s why I’m paying money to record this YouTube video and then share it for free. It is to create this culture of learning about what I think is one of the most impactful skills ever.
And it’s the embodiment of being a connector. Being somebody who sees two parties that otherwise wouldn’t communicate super well and does something to bring them together and create this different level of cohesion.
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Fill Your Bucket
If this interests you at a heart level, not a brain level, and this video really clicked with you, and you’ve been teetering on, “I don’t know. Should I come to the Connectors Summit? I’ve been following Chad’s stuff for a while, but this is an investment.” Turn up.
When you meet with folks who watch videos like this, your bucket will fill to the very brim and you’ll leave quite alive.
Want to go deeper? Register your interest for the Connectors Summit this December, a live virtual experience where facilitators, trainers, and leaders come together to practice, connect, and reset.
Have an awesome day. See you in December.
