If you were in the process of learning something, and as the next step, you were given a choice - reflect 💭 or practice 🏃‍♀️ - what would you choose?

It is common wisdom that practice makes perfect. The more practice we get, the better we become. You've probably heard it before - if you want to become a pro 🌟, put in 10,000 hours of practice. Is it really that simple 🤷‍♀️ ? Can reaching expert status really just be boiled down to time spent practicing?

Not all would agree. About a hundred years ago, a wise man said: “We do not learn from experience…we learn from reflecting on experience.”

It turns out, reflective thinking is a key driver in becoming a learning organization, which is vital for fostering innovation, creativity, adaptability, and productivity.

So in today's quest, we will search for an answer to what reflective thinking is. Why is it so important yet so hard?

If you are a curious bit 🤓 🧠, come along on this week's quest to understand and untangle the concept of Reflective Thinking.

Bit Curious - A podcast 🎙️ about us, humans, working and creating things together 👇.

Enjoy!

Victoria

Each episode´s content stands on the shoulders of giants - on what others have already figured out - scientists and researchers who spent their whole life dedicated to answering specific questions. Huge credit to all those people and their excellent work!

The full list of sources and specific research papers can be found at my website https://www.victoriavallstrom.com/
There you can also find the full transcript and other essential material for the episode

Disclaimer: Keep in mind I am not a scientist in the areas I cover, for example, psychology, neuroscience, biology, etc. I come from the other direction - practical experience working and creating things with other people in organizations. Education-wise, I have a degree in computer science, coupled with university studies in the history of ideas.