Do You Really Want to Learn?

Originally published at ineedamichee.com

Don’t you ever wonder why some people never seem to grow while others seem to can’t help but grow? 

On one hand, you have this group that no matter how much you teach them, train them, expose them to learning opportunities, they’re just stuck. It’s not that they cannot retain any information. Of course, they can but it just feels like you’re talking to a wall. 

On the other hand, you have this group that even if you do nothing else but point them in the right direction, not only do they absorb what you tell them, they seem to go further and learn everything about anything. 

What is the difference? Other than some form of intelligence, what actually moves the needle?

It’s being eager to learn in the first place. 

It’s the mindset.

It’s being self-aware that you need to learn something and having the desire to learn said something as well. 

It’s being able to see that, “Hey, I’m not good at this. What can I do to be good at it?” 

And once you do, it’s not knowledge that you learn and then throw out. 

It’s keeping that knowledge and connecting it to other future and past knowledge that you have.

One Thing You Can Do To Improve

One of the things that I’ve found to be helpful is to write things down in a notebook, rather than taking screenshots or typing things out. It turns out, there’s a science to it. Handwriting something is indeed better for remembering and learning things. 

This is also why, even though some people look at me like I’m crazy that I budget using a notebook rather than a spreadsheet, I still use notebooks. But I digress, budgeting is a whole topic altogether. 

Going back, if you are trying to learn something, I highly suggest that you pick up that pen and notebook and start writing away. You’ll be surprised at the difference this will make.

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