Often you don’t need to learn theory by attending a course or reading – you can extract it yourself from examples and analogies that you’re already aware of. It’s an incredibly powerful way to learn and make highly memorable connections in your mind.
Use What You Know
Learning is attaching what you don’t know to what you do know. By starting with something you already know and using it to trigger what you think you don’t know (hang in there, I’ll explain!) you create something that’s always at your fingertips, rather than having to learn completely disconnected new theory.
It’s like the difference between being able to derive formulae back in maths, vs memorising one. Anyone who knew how to derive formulae knew how powerful this was.
Here’s What I Mean
Well, I’ve just done it in the paragraph above. If you want to learn productivity, then choose an example of something you already know that’s very productive, and pick out the ingredients that make it so productive. Write them down. There’s your lesson.
Or use an analogy. You might ask yourself how doing your work each day is like going on a flight somewhere, with a take off time, and landing time, and so on. I did this in a recent blog post myself which you might find useful.
Free Lesson on How to Make More Money
If you want to learn how to make more money, extract the lessons from people you know who have made money, or again, choose an analogy. Maybe somehow you could relate making money to earning respect from people and question how they’re similar. You might decide that to earn respect you must keep promises and provide value to people. You might realise that to earn more respect you should provide even more value, and do it to more people, so they all respect you. You might realise that doing it once isn’t enough, but doing it again and again means they’re bursting with respect for you. Then you might realise that it’s the same rules for making money.
Einstein said that everything is connected to everything else. So sometimes, do away with books and external sources, and see what useful lessons your mind can conjur up based on what you already know. It’s a powerful and cost effective way to learn, and you can do it anywhere you like.


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