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You can drive a screw with a nail file or pound nails with a rock. Sometimes that’s just the fast, reasonably efficient, solve you’re looking for.

Pretty much everyone agrees we ought to be honest. Assuming honesty is a given in your learning partnership, the next question is, how open do you want to be?

If you’ve ever waited for someone who was waiting for you in another location with the same name (“I’ll meet you at Starbucks”), you know how people use the same words without meaning the same thing.

The best learning is hands-on. Literally. If you want to get inside a Bible text, and let the text get inside you, grab a writing utensil and go to it.

Two or three people who trust each other become a churning, learning machine (Just look at the remarkable learning partnership between Larry Page, Sergey Brin and their Google CEO, Eric Schmidt).

How can I deal with a person who talks too much?
How can I encourage a person who doesn’t talk at all?

Depending on where you’re from, the idea of creating a safe room may seem like a non-issue.

Depending on where people in your group come from, creating safety may be Job One.

Regardless of the number of people in the room, monologue (be it a motivational speech or a father lecturing the kids) works with a learning unit of one.

Nobody you want in your small group is looking for another meeting to attend. Trying to recruit business people into an aimless small group is, as they say, a fool’s errand.

Peer to Peer learning is an order of magnitude more demanding that Do It Yourself learning. Peer to Peer learning requires coordinating schedules and locations, finding common ground, hashing out a shared vocabulary, accommodating mistakes and working through disagreements.

The point of peer to peer learning is synergy—the condition in which the total effect of your learning partnership is greater than the sum of your individual efforts.

You can drive a screw with a nail file or pound nails with a rock. Sometimes that’s just the fast, reasonably efficient, solve you’re looking for.

Pretty much everyone agrees we ought to be honest. Assuming honesty is a given in your learning partnership, the next question is, how open do you want to be?

If you’ve ever waited for someone who was waiting for you in another location with the same name (“I’ll meet you at Starbucks”), you know how people use the same words without meaning the same thing.

The best learning is hands-on. Literally. If you want to get inside a Bible text, and let the text get inside you, grab a writing utensil and go to it.

Two or three people who trust each other become a churning, learning machine (Just look at the remarkable learning partnership between Larry Page, Sergey Brin and their Google CEO, Eric Schmidt).