﻿10 steps to learn anything. Learning is a physiologically
intensive process. It is not easy and effortless. If it feels that way,
you’re probably not learning.It takes dedication and hard work to learn how to educate yourself,
but the rewards you’ll gain over the course of your life by doing so are innumerable.
The following ten steps will help you learn anything, faster and more efficiently.
These 10-step process isn’t a magic formula that will make you instantly smarter,
but it can help you go through the process of organizing your studies before you jump in and
to absorb more of what you learn about by using the natural curiosity mechanism that drives most
of us.The important thing is to develop a system that you can use to teach yourself — a system that
you can consistently apply to get results. Welcome veiwers to another life changing
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Step 1 — Get the big picture It’s important to at least understand a little
bit about a subject before diving into it. Then you can figure out exactly what you need to learn
and decide the best way to do it.Learning is always tricky, because when you first start to
learn about something, you don’t know enough about it to really understand what you need to learn.
What you want to do in this step is to get the big picture of the topic you’re trying to learn about.
Do some basic research on the topic you want to learn about. Instead of reading a single
book on a subject, try to gather many different resources to help you learn. Resources can take
many forms besides just books. In fact, today, with the wide availability of the internet and
all the different content available on it, you can find many resources for almost any topic you want
to learn about. The important thing is that you find a variety of different resources. You don’t
want to be biased by the viewpoints of a single source and you want to have access to as much
information as possible. Don’t spend too much time on this step, though. Remember, the goal isn’t to
actually learn the topic here, but to just get a big picture of what it’s about and how big it is.
Step 2-- Define success When you know what your target is,
you can more easily work backwards from the goal to determine the steps you need to take to get
there.You need to determine the scope of what you want to learn. You have to take the information
you gained in the previous step and use it to narrow your focus to a smaller area,
something much more manageable.Use your reason for learning a topic
to help you determine what the scope should be. You might be tempted to make your scope bigger
and less focused, because you want to learn about different subtopics in your topic area,
but resist the temptation and try to be as focused as possible. You can only learn
one thing at a time. You can always come back later and learn about other subtopics
that branch off of your original topic, but for now, pick one narrowly focused thing and go with
it.The goal of this step is to come up with a clear and concise statement that will define
success for your learning endeavor. Use your timeframe to help you determine the scope. If
you have just one week, you need to be realistic about what you can learn in that timeframe.
Good success criteria will also keep you on track by giving you a target to aim at.Just make sure
it’s something that you can evaluate at the end of this process to be sure you met the objective.
Step 3- Talk to someone who’s already learned it.
Think of something challenging you learned how to do, possibly on your own, from the ground up.
You probably made a lot of mistakes along the way, and in retrospect, you probably know some
shortcuts and tips that could have saved you a lot of time. This is almost universally true;
even the most technical and complex subjects have shortcuts that can be taught by anyone
familiar enough with the material. So it's advisable to seek out and talk to people who
have already learned what you’re learning; ask them for advice, and you’ll probably get it.
Step 4- Write everything down. For multiple reasons, we tend to remember things
better once we’ve written them down. It could be because we’re forced to repeat what we’re hearing
and thinking in a written format, or it could be a psychological “trick” that teaches our mind that
this particular information is worth remembering. Either way, it works. Whether you’re taking notes
or committing a lesson to memory, make a list of everything and anything you come across that might
be helpful for learning your skill.Some of the things you write down might include:Inspirational
goals and milestones, different learning approaches, useful equipment and tools.
Step 5- Make a commitment. The first commitment you make is to yourself.
This is why writing down your goals is so important.The most powerful commitments you
make are to others.Nothing is more motivating than making a public commitment to others.
They will pick you up when you are down and hold you accountable if you
fail. Tell your partner, friends, family and colleagues,
members of your learning group or club. Commit to and work towards the goal with someone else.
Step 6-. Make a Plan. Set aside a few hours to hammer out a good
plan that covers What, How and When. Each part of the plan will influence the others and even your
original goals.Start with your goal, and break it down into the components you will need to work on
to get there.Don’t be afraid to go back, iterate and change things as you go through the process.
Step 7- Immerse yourself in the learning process. By now, you should know that multitasking is bad.
When your brain tries to do multiple things at once (consciously), it usually ends up failing at
everything. If you’re going to learn something, you need to immerse yourself in the learning
process.When learning something new, it’s helpful to ignore the fluff and focus purely on the most
important elements of your subject.The key to this step is to not go too far. It’s easy to get
carried away and start consuming all the resources you have on the module you’re trying to learn,
but you’ll find the most success if you can avoid that temptation. Instead, focus on learning the
minimal amount you’ll need to get started and to be able to experiment on your own in
the next step If you’re taking lessons, or are reading a book, or are watching online videos,
or doing whatever else is necessary to consume the resources you’ve chosen, also look for the
answers to the questions you came up with. Don’t be afraid to go back and play some more as you
discover answers to your questions and learn new things you need to thoroughly understand your
subject matter.Curiosity is a critical component of learning especially self-learning. Isolate
yourself and focus only on that task.You’ll learn much faster and easier this way.Remember,
though, you still don’t have to completely consume every single resource you gathered.
Step 8- Find a way to self-correct. Learning is also an exciting roller coaster of
starts, stops and set-backs that can, at times, make even the bravest passengers want to get
off.That is why the most important qualities to cultivate when it comes to learning are patience
and persistence.Our minds learn best when we’re met with immediate feedback. If something’s right,
we need to feel rewarded. If something’s wrong, we should be corrected immediately;
this also prevents us from practicing or rehearsing the wrong things.
Your system of feedback may depend on an outside party, or semi-constant check-ins with a source
(e.g. a book) to ensure you’re getting things right.Approach every skill learning adventure
as a game, challenge and experiment.Adopt a growth mindset and your mind will grow.
Step 9-Practice consistently. There’s a common belief that it takes about
10,000 hours of practice for anyone to get good at anything -- perpetuated by the book Outliers, by
Malcolm Gladwell. Empirical evidence suggests this isn’t quite true, but there’s certainly a wealth
of evidence that practice and repetition are your best tools for learning. Make your studying habits
continually rewarding; set up milestones along the way, and experiment with new learning tactics to
keep from getting bored.This is the way our brains are wired; the more we do something,
the more important it becomes, and the more entrenched it becomes in our memory.
Step 10- Explain what you’ve learned to someone else.
If you want to test your knowledge on a subject, try explaining it to someone else. This forces you
to reword your innate knowledge, and revisit it from the ground up. It’s a perfect test to see if
you’ve truly internalized something or if you’ve just been going through the motions of learning
and it’s a great way to fill in the gaps in your own learning as you try to explain it to others.
It’s a process that will cause you to really dissect and understand the topic you’re
learning about in your own mind as you organize the information in a way that will make it
understandable to others. When you go through this process, you’ll find that there are many things
that you thought you understood that you didn’t. You’ll also begin to make connections that you
didn’t see before and simplify the information in your head as you try to condense it down and
regurgitate it.It may be tempting, but whatever you do, don’t skip this step. This step is crucial
to retaining information and developing more than a surface-level understanding of a subject.
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