Why Learning New Skills Doesn't Always Lead to Growth | Elevated You

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Learning will get you nowhere!   Unless ……

I love to read books.  I love to learn from video.  I love to learn and get better at things.

Earlier in my career I used to read so many books.  Books on career development, books on technology, books on business.

I'd mentally exclaim "Well I never" as I Iearnt something amazing. 

The problem was that I learnt so much but never put it into practice.  It went it one ear and straight out the other.  I started to realise I wasn't really benefitting from just reading and watching.

So tried a different approach: 

• Focus - Pick some topics that were important to me.
• Learn - Learn the theory.
• Practice - Actually apply the learning.

Less topics, less books, less videos.

More focus, more practice, more execution.

So how did I do it:

• Prioritise the topics to learn.
• Find some authors/coaches/creators that resonated with me.
• Read that book/watched the videos
• Put the learning into practice
• Learnt way more from actually doing it.
• Failed, course corrected and learnt more.

Learning will get you nowhere, unless …

you put into practice the things you've learnt.