Key Takeaways
- If you tend to view your attempts at things as being either wins or failures, try reframing these situations.
- A failure is only a true failure if you learn nothing from it. Failure is how we learn!
- We’ll review five key ways we can learn every day.
We live in a culture of winning or losing. While that’s okay if you’re playing a game or watching your favorite sports team, it doesn’t work so well to view our daily lives this way.
In life, we’re either winning or learning. This is because we learn from failure – and the only true failure is if you learn nothing at all.
So how do we ensure we’re learning? There are five key ways we can learn every day.
1. Read something every day. It doesn’t have to be lengthy, nor for a long period of time. Just make sure to read. It’s a time for you to be silent and it allows your brain to make new connections when you read.
2. Have a daily challenge. This can vary for people, but one example is to do deep work, where you spend time thinking, writing out ideas, doodling, and allowing yourself to really collect your thoughts.
3. Learn from others. You’ll never know what untapped knowledge someone has unless you ask. By engaging with others, you’ll broaden your own knowledge, and you might be amazed at what you can learn from them.
4. Test things out. This is something you’ll want to do in many areas of life, but especially when dealing with money. Oftentimes, people don’t test things out when it comes to money. They decide to jump into the stock market, or they hear about Bitcoin and go all in. Instead, try buying just a little. Get a feel for the ups and downs and, in the process, learn. Does it work for you? Does it not? Give it a test before you commit.
5. Finally, teach or coach others. If you really want to learn a lot about something, teach it to someone else. In order to do so, you’ll have to get it down pat.
Being a lifelong learner is really rewarding. Try incorporating these ways to learn and see how they enrich your life. Until next time, enjoy.
Gary
If you’d like to read more on this topic, here are a few of Gary’s previous posts that you might enjoy:
