With the perspective of needing to increase technical competence in mind, we thought about the simple reality “we learn,” and that’s what we adopted. It was something that every member of the crew did every day. It seemed to be the basic element that unified all of our actions. No matter what we were doing, we would figure out how to extract the maximum learning from that event. Our philosophy was that we just didn’t have time to add a bunch of lectures, but the submarine gave us hundreds of opportunities a day to learn. Once we started looking for those learning opportunities, we found them
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