20 Ways to become a Relentless Learner (by Dan Waldschmidt)

Learning is not some magical happenstance that falls all around you. Learning is about capturing the lessons that are happening all around you.

That doesn’t happen automatically, or else we would all be learning the lessons that could make us extraordinary. It takes massive and relentless focus on becoming a learner. And that means going out of your way to make life your laboratory.

You don’t wait for answers to magically appear. You actively look for answers from everything around you. You don’t learn only when you feel like it. And you don’t learn only the lessons that you want to learn.

Being willing to learn is different from hoping you will learn something.

Being a learner means taking what life serves you—fair or not—and turning it into either the best choice or some kind of understanding. It’s using the worst moments in life to plan your future best moments. And sometimes, you need to learn the same lesson a few different ways.

The key is to keep learning. Even if it means learning the same lesson over and over again.

Learning is also about curiosity, about purposefully putting yourself in the position to find answers to your questions. It’s about asking questions until you know, until you really have clarity, so that you can be the best you possible.

You need to keep asking until you understand. Sure, at times you might feel like a fool with nonstop questions. But your feelings on the subject aren’t really that important if what you want is outrageous success.

You need to be learning. You probably already agree with that. But here’s the real question for you:

Are you learning? Are you obsessed with figuring it out?

the text above is almost entirely taken from 22 Ways to Become a Relentless Learner by Dan Waldschmidt

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