3 Steps to Check: Are you still GROWING?

What is your Motivational Needs? Our Motivational Needs often reflects how we think and what we want. David McClelland, a psychologist proposes 3 primary needs that success seekers will try to satisfy, namely "power", "Achievement", and "Affiliation".

You have to keep on learning to INCREASE your VALUE, in order to keep in progress in this ever advancing society

STEP 1: Are You still Learning New Things?

Don't let the moment you step out of school to be the time you STOP learning.

Asian parents always tell their kids: study well that's the only way to succeed. Yes, education is very important to open our minds, but education is not confined to the four walls of classroom. Coursera is an online platform with interesting online courses from world top universities (e.g. Rice, U. of Michigan, Princeton, UPenn, etc.) that you can take, paid or unpaid. You can also go to Udemy to search for other online lessons uploaded by Subject Matter Experts in their fields.

STEP 2: Do you Teach Others?

In order to deliver VALUE to others, we have to constantly increasing our VALUE by learning and developing ourselves. When we teach others, we will realize how much we know, and it challenges us to learn more and be more proficient than our audience.

STEP 3: Could you Create new content for the field of your expertise?

If you have been doing the same things in your job for a few years now, you may have the skills and expertise to pass on to others. Consider creating content to teach others, and you can do this creatively (e.g. creating training material, writing magazines, blogs, videos, etc).

How are you growing? Leave a comment below!