Chapter 42. Learn Continuously
Learning is an essential ingredient in preparedness. It is also a lifelong pursuit. Leaders prepare themselves and their organizations for success by embracing and enhancing their ability to learn.
MacArthur was one of the lucky ones. The love of learning caught fire within him while he was still a schoolboy. He quite eloquently described the transformation it engendered in his attitude toward his studies:
There came a desire to know, a seeking for the reason why, a search for the truth. Abstruse mathematics began to appear as a challenge to analysis, dull Latin and Greek seemed a gateway to the moving words of leaders of the past, laborious historical data led to the nerve-tingling battlefields of the great captains, ...
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