Passive learning is just absorbing information. Active learning means taking ideas from other domains and testing them in your own work. Top leaders don't just read more; they experiment with what they learn.
Where you see the difference between passive learning and active learning? It's not just learning for learning's sake, you know, which can make you book smart. It's what do you do once you learn something? Do you put it into action? The best leaders, most successful people, they're not avid learners. They've taken it a step further. They've become active learners. So they seek knowledge wherever they can find it, and then they apply it. And they say, what if I did this this way? I might be a different person, or I might have a different business. But hey, if they're doing this over at Amazon, and I happen to be running a restaurant business, how could I take what they're doing there and apply it to my business and put it into action? I think that's what the best in the world do, is they seek it out and then they put it into action.
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