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Teaching Smart People To Learn Summary

E. Article Summaries

Teaching Smart People how to Learn
By Chris Argyris

The author contends that most successful people are adept at solving problems, but they don't really know how to learn. They are able to solve problems and overcome many organizational obstacles, but when it comes down to examining why there are obstacles and looking at the underneath dynamics of the problem they are unsuccessful. They lack introspection and the ability to see their own part in the problem and hence are not able to learn from it. Failure forces people to be introspective.
There are two types of learning. Single loop learning which involves the detection and the correction of a problem. Double loop learning asks, "Why is there a problem"
Most successful people have little experience of failure and thus have little reason for introspection They then build up defensive behavior and blame others for what has happened when they are involved in some type of botched plan.
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