hey everybody don georgevich here and
today i want to teach you
how to learn something new and what i
want to do is give you a framework of
three simple steps that i use when i
want to learn a new skill and if you're
anything like me you have a burning
desire to learn more about something new
and it could be anything i mean it could
be gardening could be cooking investing
starting a business playing an
instrument doing yoga whatever it is
you're interested in now i believe that
everyone has a desire to learn new
things but some people they just don't
do anything about it and maybe you know
what i mean maybe you've been there
before i mean it might be more of a wish
for some people but a burning desire for
others now i'm committed to
self-improvement i love pushing myself
and bettering myself but there have been
many times when i wanted to learn more
about something
but i didn't do anything about it maybe
you can relate to that i mean it may as
well have been a wish for me but there
are other times where there was no
stopping me and i learned that no skill
no matter what it was but even if it's
just a wish for you that just means
you're interested
and you're not totally committed and
that's okay but what i want to do is
show you how to learn
new things and the process that i go
through and hopefully
when you can see how i do it you'll be
able to apply that same framework in
your life so that you can get the result
that you want because wishing for that
new skill or knowledge
isn't going to get you there
now if you're interviewing for a job
they might ask you you know how do you
learn new things now i'm not going to
cover this topic as an interview
question but as a framework that you can
use to learn new things and now if you
were asked this question in a job
interview you would simply describe the
framework that you use to learn new
things whether it's the one that i share
with you today or your own version now
learning new things
is both easier than it's ever been and
it's also harder than it's ever been and
i know that sounds a bit of a like a
contradiction but it's easier today
because of all the limitless resources
you have at your disposal i mean there's
so much free information on the internet
where people are willing to show you how
to do something i mean just because
simply because they just want to share
how they did it and there's no end in
sight to that information i mean you
could easily find 100 experts on
virtually any topic who are willing to
teach you something
so that alone makes it easy and hard you
know on who to decide to watch but the
flip side is you have limitless choices
too which makes deciding what you want
to learn that much harder i mean do i
want to do this do i want to do that i
mean you have maybe you have 10 things
that you want to learn but you're not
sure which one to start with plus our
attention spans have been reconditioned
to be much shorter than they used to be
i mean no one wants to watch a five-hour
training video to learn a new skill i
mean no one wants to invest that much
time in something because
they might miss out on something else
now i mean it's impossible to compress
five hours of training into five minutes
it just doesn't work but that's what the
internet has done to us and it seems
like no one wants to invest any serious
amount of time on anything i mean you
can only scratch the surface in five
minutes which means you'll never get a
good understanding of that topic so
here's what i do when i want to learn
something new now the first question
that i ask myself is why
why do i want this you know why do i
want to learn this what is the benefit
of it
you know what will it do for me how will
it help me grow i mean if i don't have a
big enough why then it's just a wish for
me so before i act on learning something
new i need a big reason of why
i want to do that i mean let's say you
have a list of five things that you want
to learn write them all down and
determine the benefits of those and
prioritize them but this is the most
crucial part because if your why is not
big enough it's not strong enough and
you're not 100 serious about it you'll
never follow through you'll dabble with
it and you'll put it to the side now the
second question i ask myself is who who
is the best at what i want to learn so
if i'm interested in learning a new
cooking skill i'll look up the best
chefs to see how they do it
if i want to learn how to run a marathon
i'll find the best athletes and study
them if i want to start a business i
might look at some of the great
entrepreneurs like mark cuban and study
everything that they do the key here
is finding the best person who is the
best at what you want to learn and then
modeling them you want to compress
decades into days it might take you 10
years to go down the same road as mark
cuban you know and all the experience
and all his ups and downs but if you
just studied him read his books watched
his videos you could save yourself years
literally almost and learn literally
almost everything about him i mean you
still have to apply it but at least
you'll be applying proven strategies but
the key here is modeling not copying
what they do but modeling them look at
what they do figure out how that applies
to you and then you know once you start
digging into one expert and how they do
it you'll learn of how other experts and
how they do it and then you'll want to
explore and model them as well now at
this stage you're just learning and
you're gathering knowledge the next step
is immersion this is the most important
one and it's where most people fail
immersion means that you are 100
committed to achieving the result you're
looking for i mean every day you are
relentlessly focused on studying the
experts if you're learning something new
you should plan to totally immerse
yourself
every day for at least 30 days i mean
anything less than you're dabbling and
if you're dabbling you're going to lose
sight of your goal and you're going to
quit and the last step is application
this is where you hardwire your new
skills into your nervous system i mean
you need to apply what you learned or
you'll never be able to go deep with it
you'll understand it intellectually but
not cognitively which means you'll never
be able to explain it to someone so that
they can understand it you'll not be
able you'll never be able to teach it i
mean this is the hardest part but you
need to find a way to do it up to this
point you came in with a big why of why
you wanted to do it and then you found
and studied the best people you modeled
them and now you need to put it into
action this brings to mind an old
chinese proverb
where the journey of a thousand miles
begins with the first step you need to
begin i mean maybe your goal was to
learn something new so that you could
teach it to other people and to apply
that you need to find some people that
you need to teach it to and that might
be hard at first but start with one
person and then teach it to them and
then look for another and look for
another and soon you'll be teaching 10
people or you can make youtube videos
like i'm doing right now that teach
people how to do something i mean you
just have to start and when i started
making youtube videos i thought they
were pretty bad
but i had a passion for it i loved it so
i kept pushing myself and digging and
doing better and better and after a
hundred videos or so i actually got a
little bit better so i'm still trying to
develop that skill and
make videos that are better than the
ones that i made yesterday and i've been
teaching people how to interview for
jobs and now i want to make videos that
teach people how to be better how to
improve themselves how to improve their
lives how to solve problems those are
those are things that i enjoy doing and
much of what i teach are the things that
i discovered in my own journey through
my life and i like to show people how i
overcame tough problems how i was faced
with certain challenges and what i did
with them so if i can save someone the
trouble of what i went through then i
want to do that
so
that's really all i have for you today
on this one
you have four steps to learning
something new you have to start off with
a big why
of why you want it why it's important
then you have to look to who you're
going to study and model who are the
experts find them seek them out i mean
you don't have to get them personally
that that can be kind of hard reaching
out to mark cuban asking him to coach
you but
he has a lot of material out there on
being an entrepreneur or if you're you
know you're looking to improve you know
your tennis game you know you can study
some of the great tennis players you
have to start
and then after you find somebody you
have to immerse yourself you have to be
committed for at least 30 days you have
to keep pressing and digging and
learning and conditioning yourself for
30 days otherwise you're just dabbling
and then at the end you have to apply it
if you don't apply what you learned
it's just gonna
vanish out of your mind and it'll be
gone i mean maybe you'll retain a little
bit of it but it's through the
application
where you're you're teaching it to
somebody you're explaining it to
somebody you're implementing it whatever
it is
that application is going to hardwire it
into your brain so that that skill
or that knowledge sticks with you and
you know it more than just
intellectually you know it cognitively
which means you can apply it you can
teach it you can you can use it as a
tool
so
i hope these four steps have helped you
kind of create maybe your own framework
of you know how you can learn new things
and you know to improve your life so
that is all i have for you today my
friend i wish you all the best in your
life and i will see you in the next
video take care bye now