How To Learn Better (Since We All Need To Learn To Learn)

When we think about a fundamental flaw of our society, it seems to be teaching how to learn and then allowing people to actually utilize this.

What I'm saying is that by putting someone in school, yelling information at them, and asking them to regurgitate that information with no new ideas, doesn't seem like learning to me.

Learning is the ability to grow, connect ideas, use prior knowledge and past experience, and combine them within a mental model that individualizes information.

Honestly, its the most magical thing and once used properly it becomes an addiction unlike anything else.

My Quest To Learn More

It all started when I was coming out of my post-depression/overweight phase and actually realized that through reading I could learn, grow and figure out how to improve myself.

It bit my like these damn ticks which are giving everyone lime disease, except, luckily, I got the drive for knowledge.

And thus it began my quest to learn, read, learn more and connect ideas in order to solve everyday life experiences.

In our day and age it seems like no one sits there and thinks, which is a problem.

Learning and growing comes from internalizing information and making it unique.

Not from reading, memorizing, and then circling a,b,c, or d.

How To Learn Betterer?

Well I'm going to dive into learning much more in depth, as this is built out, I do have a quick and easy way to really truly learn better.

Start with one book.

Just one idea, one book, and yes it needs to a book.

Why?

Because with articles, tweets, and a synthesis of information that seemingly gets shorter every year, we end up only following these short thought sequences of others.

When a book, requiring lengthy thought sequences and a lot of time, allows the reader to jump into a thought, built out and methodical, until it was solid enough to write a book.

And yes, I know there are shitty books, there is shitty everything.

But starting with one book is a perfect place, and make sure it is contextually relevant to something you want to learn, do or just read about.

This gets the thoughts going, and really kicks into gear the mind.

Next, start a journal, nothing fancy, but just something to write ideas in. 

What happens is you start to read, and then create ideas based on the work, record them, and let them soak up eventually creating something unique that you learned almost entirely on your own.

Personally I read between 4-10 books at a time, switching from chapter to chapter and gathering not only information of one books and its ideas but a melting pot of ideas that play out between the books (normally when they follow a similar subject like physics or personal development.)

Yes, I Think This Is Both The Easiest Way To Start Learning and Thinking For Yourself

"Stay Woke" is a phrase becoming more popular today.

It literally is the practical ability to wake up and really think for yourself. 

And once this happens, thoughts, learning and growing becomes so easy.

Thanks for reading,

Austin

photo cred by order:

• oliver thomas klein
• Kiwihug
• Jermey Perkins