{"id":7925,"date":"2025-10-13T01:37:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/?p=7925"},"modified":"2025-10-13T01:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:37:58","slug":"ma-ka-hana-ka-%ca%bbike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2025\/10\/13\/ma-ka-hana-ka-%ca%bbike\/","title":{"rendered":"Ma ka hana ka \u02bbike"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, I\u00b4m bringing you a proverb from Hawaii, no less (thanks, Ryan!): Ma ka hana ka \u02bbike<\/strong><\/em>, which could be translated as \"in doing, one learns\", or in other words: true knowledge is acquired through practice<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a picture of a draft I made a couple of years ago using line drawing techniques, something I learnt from a work colleague (thanks, Valerie!) and that I really enjoyed, despite being terrible at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, why was I terrible at it? Well, because drawing is not something I would have practiced much (or at all, to be honest). At some point towards the end of my childhood, I remember looking at one of my drawings and coming to the conclusion that, given that I wasn\u00b4t any good at it, it was better to give it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now, looking back, I realize I did the same with many other activities: try it once, be mediocre or bad at it, and immediately consider it a lost cause. Sports, arts and crafts, and even cooking for a good few years, all fell into this category. Anything creative and\/or spontaneous requiring skills I didn\u00b4t have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What never crossed my mind back then was that I didn\u00b4t have those skills yet<\/strong>, but I could cultivate them. Back at that time, there was no mention of, or at least I never heard about growth mindset<\/strong> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good news is that nowadays we do know skills can be cultivated and improved. But what\u00b4s the best way to do that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The clue could be in a learning model that\u00b4s one of the most widely used by companies: the 70\/20\/10 rule, which originated in a study from the nineties, and postulates that, in a workplace environment, 90% of the learning is not of a formal nature, but informal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n