Wherever you find yourself in the creative world – filmmaker, musician, artist, teacher – one important part of surviving is being a great learner. After all, how else can you improve your craft without learning along the way? It’s about learning from your last audition, learning from your peers, and learning about yourself. And for us creative types, this is often the best part of the job. We found a great article on the NAfME website detailing the 7 qualities of great learners, as written by researcher and author Kirsten Olson – read on to discover these qualities:
1. Great learners see learning as pleasurable. Develop your passion through intensive learning that involves focused concentration and a sense of challenge. Recognize that “failure is a huge part of the enterprise.”
2. Great learners have learned that effort is more important than inborn ability. Kids with disabilities sometimes can deal with these through their other abilities and through persistence. In Olson’s words, “Thinking of yourself as an entity always ripe for development is a mark of learners who go boldly forward.”
3. Great learners tend to have a strengths-based view of themselves and others. “This attitude,” says Olson, “is at the heart of learning resilience.” Figuring out what you excel at and practicing being satisfied with these traits can help you learn.
4. Great learners practice letting go of negative emotions, of flipping the script on what might be regarded as a failure. Let failure go—don’t brood on it. Pick up where you fell and move on.
5. Great learners are unusual problem-solvers who know how to ask for help. These people are both supported and supporters of others in their quests.
6. Great learners don’t let the institution define them. Although they take their educations seriously, they often question labels and define their own paths.
7. Great learners have passions. Research literature describes the importance of passion, curiosity, and deep interests in dealing with challenges.
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