The One Percent Better Podcast

To Whom it May Concern: Please accept my highest recommendation for lifelong learning.  It’s a mindset, a practice, a habit.  One that literally gets better every day.  Believe it or not I have only known lifelong learning, or kaizen, or continuous improvement as it is sometimes called, for 20 years.  As I stare down my 42nd birthday, it startles me to try and remember so many wasted moments in classrooms across in Pennsylvania.   I day dreamed in an elementary Catholic school, where viciously underpaid teachers were doing the best they could.  My mind wandered in a private high school where kids with IQs beyond belief thrived as I clawed to keep up.  When I got to college, something clicked and I began asking questions, listening to the words the teacher said as well as the vital meaning behind them.  My grades improved as I learned how school worked, but even then, between Division I baseball and other priorities, I largely excelled in classrooms that featured motivated, creative teachers in the front of th