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One form of practice that helps us learn from experience, as the neurosurgeon Mike Ebersold recounted in Chapter 2, is reflection.

In order for practice to be effective, learners need to be able to tell how they are doing. This is particularly important for skill development, because practicing something incorrectly can be worse than not practicing at all.

As helpful as it is to have another person mirroring for us, we can also engage this process on our own. Being self-reflective is what builds emotional intelligence. As we understand our own motivations, they can no longer govern us autonomously or behave destructively in our relationships. In reflecting on psyche’s experience of events, we learn t

The reverse seminar, particularly if done on a regular basis (some of my clients hold one every two weeks, with different clients) provides the mechanism to expose the staff of the firm (juniors and seniors alike) to the thinking of business people.