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Jul 27, 2026 43 min

Learning Is Leadership: David Preston

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What if everything you think you know about "learning by doing" is wrong? In this episode, UCLA lecturer/ former LA Times writer and author of "Academy of One" David Preston unpacks the real science of how humans learn, why compulsory schooling isn't the same thing as learning, and what separates leaders who build people from leaders who just manage them. David shares the wild story of how a single classroom moment led him to spend a month with a student's family in Mongolia and Tibet, and how it permanently changed how he sees education. He also breaks down why willpower can be trained like a muscle, why "hate the medicine, take it anyway" beats motivation every time, and why real change is never incremental. It's sea change. A conversation about learning, leadership, servant leadership, and staying human in an AI-driven world.

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