I am not sure who said that first but Confucius said it slightly differently. He said, “If you love what you do, you will never work another day in your life.”

The HBDI measures your thinking preference. I think of a preference as some thing I like, something that ‘turns me on’.

The two best places to see preferences at work are at school and at work. At school our preferences have an enormous effect on the subjects we choose. At work they have the same effect on the jobs we like.

The link between thinking preference and subject and job choice is strong.

Remember, the HBDI does not say you can or can’t do a job. It does, however, give big clues as to how you will do a job and how much you might enjoy it.

“To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.” Sister Mary Lauretta.

I know that!

Or I thought I did until last week.

I spent last week running a Certification program, especially designed for people in education. Running it with me was Julia Atkin, known to many of you for her work into Integral Learning.

The combination of Integral Learning and Whole Brain Thinking made a powerful mixture.

The big aha of the week for me was in ‘knowing’. I have a very strong preference for the C and D quadrants and an equally strong avoidance for the A and B quadrants. I thought I knew something when I knew it in my quadrant of preference, the C and D. But what I discovered using Julia’s approach to learning was that the most powerful and complete learning occurred when I knew something for all 4 quadrants of the Whole Brain Model.

Using an approach she calls the Mu Dictionary, Julia is able to show what ‘to know something’ really means.

“I know that!” Now I do.

Michael