The document discusses the blessings of teachability, including wisdom, extended life and prosperity, and honor. It then explores why people struggle with teachability, such as wanting their own way, feeling they know how to succeed, and laziness. The document provides strategies that people use to dodge correction, like ignoring it, being wise in their own eyes, resisting, and scorning correction. Finally, it offers keys to teachability, such as changing mental models, changing action models, applying teachings, and learning from precept or pain. Teachability involves learning from instruction and correction.
7. Teachability’s Blessings
Proverbs 3:1 My son, do not
forget my teaching, but keep my
commands in your heart, 2for
they will prolong your life many
years and bring you prosperity.
12. Why Do We Struggle
with Teachability?
1. We want to have our own way.
13. Why Do We Struggle
with Teachability?
Proverbs 1:30-... since they
would not accept my advice and
spurned my rebuke,
14. Why Do We Struggle
with Teachability?
31they will eat the fruit of their
ways and be filled with the fruit
of their schemes.
15. Why Do We Struggle
with Teachability?
Proverbs 22:15 Folly is bound up
in the heart of a child, but the
rod of discipline will drive it far
from him.
16. Why Do We Struggle
with Teachability?
•Folly:
•Arrogance:
17. Why Do We Struggle
with Teachability?
Ecclesiastes 9:3 This is the evil
in everything that happens
under the sun: The same destiny
overtakes all.
18. Why Do We Struggle
with Teachability?
The hearts of men, moreover,
are full of evil and there is
madness in their hearts while
they live, and afterward they
join the dead.
19. Why Do We Struggle
with Teachability?
•Madness:
20. Why Do We Struggle
with Teachability?
2. We all feel like we know how
to make it in the world.
21. Why Do We Struggle
with Teachability?
Ephesians 2:3 All of us also lived
among them at one
time, gratifying the cravings of
our sinful nature…
22. Why Do We Struggle
with Teachability?
and following its desires and
thoughts. Like the rest, we were
by nature objects of wrath.
23. Why Do We Struggle
with Teachability?
Common mental models:
We not only have our mental models.
We ARE our mental models.
24. Why Do We Struggle
with Teachability?
3. We may be too lazy to change.
25. Why Do We Struggle
with Teachability?
Proverbs 19:16 He who obeys
instructions guards his life, but
he who is contemptuous of his
ways will die.
39. Keys to Teachability
Romans 12:2 Do not be
conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of
your mind so that you may prove
what is God’s will, his
good, pleasing and perfect.
43. Keys to Teachability
Ezra 7:10 Ezra had devoted
himself to the study and
observance of the Law of the
Lord, and to teaching its decrees
and laws in Israel.