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This Mindset Shift Changed My Life — And Gave Me the Courage to Leave My Well-Paid Full-Time Job. Discover the power of unlearning as Amy Chambers shares her journey of changing her mind and its transformative impact on her life and career.

By Mark Klekas Edited by Mark Klekas

There is always something new to learn.

And for the most part, humans are pretty good at learning new things. But what's a little more difficult is to unlearn — especially when it comes to unwinding bad habits or unhelpful thought processes. Mark Bonchek wrote about this subject in Harvard Business Review and summed up the issue:

"The problem isn't learning: it's unlearning. In every aspect of business, we are operating with mental models that have grown outdated or obsolete, from strategy to marketing to organization to leadership. To embrace the new logic of value creation, we have to unlearn the old one."

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