{"id":6607,"date":"2023-11-28T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T08:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=6607"},"modified":"2023-11-14T15:59:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T22:59:07","slug":"stop-learning-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/stop-learning-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Learning Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>If you try to learn everything about any topic, including Lean Six Sigma, you are more likely to become confused than productive. Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/842565951?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m Jay Arthur, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lean-Six-Sigma-Demystified-Second\/dp\/0071749098\/\">Lean Six Sigma Demystified<\/a>\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/demo\/\">QI Macros [software]<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;You know, when I went to college I got 148 credits in systems engineering, but actually I&#8217;ve only ever used four of those credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fortran\">FORTRAN<\/a> and CDC Assembler Level Programming. You know, that&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve done in my life is write code, right? So, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Differential_equation\">differential equations<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laplace_transform\">Laplace transforms<\/a>, all that stuff. I learned all kinds of things&#8230; hey, never used that.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I found the same thing is true in Six Sigma, I&#8217;ve learned a lot of stuff but I still use\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/control-chart\/\">control charts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/pareto-chart-excel\/how-to-pareto-chart\/\">Pareto charts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/histogram-excel\/\">histograms<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/fishbone-diagram-template\/\">fishbones<\/a> and some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/matrix-diagram-magic\/\">Matrix diagrams<\/a> 99.9% of the time. So maybe you don&#8217;t need to know everything to do anything.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Figure out what works and start using that. You can add other things in later, but don&#8217;t try and learn everything because it&#8217;ll be exhausting.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week: Let&#8217;s stop learning everything. Let&#8217;s start using key tools, solving problems, making the world a better place; hassle-free healthcare, hassle-free America.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you try to learn everything about any topic, including Lean Six Sigma, you are more likely to become confused than productive. 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