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Make a change in how you learn – not in what you learn, but in how you learn – is among the easiest and most profitable changes you can make in life. The initial investment is small and the potential benefit infinite. It is like finding gold in a field of gold that has not previously been mined for gold. Among the best little known secrets around, it beats artificial life sweeteners by (s)miles.
The skill of learning is often overlooked because we take learning for granted. The first thing we do when we come into this life, right after taking our first breath, is learning. If you’re like me, chances are you got so busy learning, you never stopped. You never even stopped to learn how to learn – a mistake, because the difference in learning versus learning the right way is enormous. At least it’s what I found from personal experience. I used to think learning about learning was an oxymoron. Now I know it can be the difference between a life and an extraordinary life.
How You Learn Determines Everything
How you learn determines what you know. What you know leads to what you do and don’t do in life – the choices you make. What you do (and refrain from doing) produces the results in life. The sum of your results added up, are your life. Therefore, change how you learn and you change your life! Simple, legal, inexpensive, lasting, good for you, good for others, works every time and never fails.
What Is Learning, Anyway?
All learning involves teaching. In an ideal world the teacher is an actual person in an actual classroom. In the real world the teacher often has no face and the lessons, as well as the exams, just happen. In fact, much learning is achieved in this way, when there is no-one around but you and you find yourself both teacher and student at the same time.
Take a minute to imagine. Does the teacher know about both the teaching and the learning? How are you teaching yourself – what are your teaching style and method? What would you teach? Are you – the student – hungry to learn and explore? Is there joy and harmony between the teacher and the student? To take your life to a whole new level, simply make your vision real – create the best teacher-student interaction you’re capable of. It’s within your control.
What We Learn
What we learn typically consists of learning about the world around us, then about life, then about success, and lastly, about ourselves.
While closely entwined and operating together in harmony, the basic areas of learning – the world, life, success and ourselves – are also separate entities, each subject to its own rules and regulations as it were. You can achieve great progress in one area of learning while remaining utterly stuck and confused in another. There are people who “know everything” but achieve little, as well as people who “know nothing” yet possess the midas touch. It is difficult also to achieve balance, as evidenced by stories of rich and famous disasters – people who are successful in one area of their lives, sometimes exceedingly so, yet unable to transfer success to other areas of their life.
Learn (And Do) More By Learning Less
The first step to a better life is to stop all learning … with the exception of the learning needed, if any, for doing great things (specifically, what you believe are great things). The best way to achieve a truly great life is to do excellent work. The best way to do excellent work is to love what you do. Resolve to work primarily for the sensation you have while working. If you are still looking for what you love to do, limit your learning to what’s needed to find it. Learn to ask the right questions. If you knew today were the last day of your life, would you still go with the plans you had for today? If the answer is “No” for too many days in a row, it might be time to make changes. Do not settle. Keep looking. Do not lose faith.
Learn less and let go. Let go of what you can hold on with your hands, and of what you can hold on with your mind, but never ever let go of your faith and never ever let go with your heart. Your heart already knows what you truly want to become.
Happy new learning and happy new life!
Relevant Quotes
- “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” – Vincent Lombardi
- “Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.” – Steven Covey
- “The whole course of things is to teach us faith.” – Emerson
- “You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.” – Galileo
- “Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.” – Hector Berlioz
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