Training is 10%, Attitude is 90%

In the corporate world, we depend a lot of training programmes to get our executives prepared for the new challenges, new technology, new domain, new skills ! Rather, we most of the time, depend only on training as our risk mitigation for something new and unknown.

In my experience, training is only an initiation, but does not result in skill upgrade immediately. And, the time to acquire varies very largely across individuals...

This fact only got re-inforced with my kids. For my kids, every day, every situation is a training. My twin girls have the perfect setting for a comparison (though I am strictly advised not to do this !).

They have been brought up exactly in the same environment (my home), exactly under the same trainers (I mean parents), exactly started with a clean slate (fresh neuron cells). Should this not translate to they acquiring exactly the same skills in the same timeframe !

But alas, as expected, they are learning differently, at their own paces with varied skills. So, it makes me think aloud.. What is the reason ?? Should they not be same since we almost maintained the external factors same ??

The truth is that training is only the beginning and not the end. Capabilities, Aptitude, Interest, Attempts, Desire differ from person to person, baby to baby ! I sum all this under "Attitude".

So, more effort is needed in Attitude to acquire skills !! When babies have attitudes, should we say more about mature adults !!!

Well folks, training is nice to put on paper as a solution, but the truth lies elsewhere...