If we want to learn faster, we have to approach learning differently. Here are five ideas to learn faster:
1. Connect Your Life Goals with What You Want to Learn
If you don’t know what your goals are or dream life should look like, you don’t know WHAT to learn and, worse, you won’t be COMMITTED to truly learning it. Advanced learning requires clear focus and a definitive WHY for learning – without these you won’t stay disciplined enough to learn anything with real depth.
2. Follow an Example. Avoid Starting from Scratch.
With no model to begin from – no example or strategy you are following – you’re reinventing the wheel and doomed to waste time. So, what proven framework, person, strategy, or step-by-step instruction are you following in order to learn this new area?
3. Make a Practice of Mastering Skillsets
A practice is a recurring habit or routine that deepens your skill in any given area. The important thing here is to make a daily practice of anything you truly want to learn. Without daily exposure and immersion in the area you are trying to learn you will never achieve mastery. Learning must be an everyday discipline.
4. Get Feedback to Grow
As you begin something new, all leaps forward, all major advancement, rests on getting immediate feedback and direction. Learning is a social process, so ask other people for suggestions and direction as you move forward so you can adjust your approach.
5. Have a Deadline
Without a timeline for developing your competencies, you’ll never act or you’ll fall off track. No deadline means guaranteed distraction. So, WHEN do you need to learn this new topic or reach the next level of skill? What’s the consequence if you don’t learn it by then? Knowing the answer to these two questions will accelerate your learning.
Have a timeline to that mastery so that way now you have a competency map you’re building up.
- You know what you need to learn.
- You have people you can learn it from.
- You can practice it with these habits.
- You can get feedback from these types of people and experiences
- You know you have to do it and get good at it at this certain timeframe.
Follow these things and you will start to learn faster.
* Source: Brendon Burchard – How to LEARN Faster