Why Start a Blog?
Why start a blog? Working on your blog is working on your life. Blogging is a way to spend more time doing what makes you come alive.
Learning
How To Skim a Book with Skill
5 techniques for skimming. If you want to read faster, you need to know how to skim.
10 Big Ideas from Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
How a simple idea about the brain can create a love of learning and a resilience that is the basis of great accomplishment in every area of work and life.
How Learning Plateaus Set the Stage for Future Progress
Sometimes when we learn something new, progress happens slowly and quietly in the background. Sometimes we hit learning plateaus. Back in college, I remember getting really frustrated with my learning progress. Sometimes my learning was fast and furious. I was on fire. Other times, it felt like learning was very painful and slow.
How To Learn Anything Better
If you want to learn any subject well and to create ideas beyond those that have existed before, return to the basics repeatedly. In the book, The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking, Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird share a simple technique to learn anything better, by mastering the fundamentals and going deeper in your understanding.