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Writing Is The Greatest Untapped Learning Opportunity
These 5 Techniques Accelerate Your Mastery
When’s the last time you read a life-changing book and then forgotten everything about it a week later?
I’m obsessed with learning new things. Who isn’t these days? There’s no shortage of learning opportunities in our interconnected society. I make considerable investments in books, courses and conferences.
Despite my consumption of all this knowledge, I struggle to absorb the material. I’ve read those life-changing books too. I suffered a sleepless night or two from the excitement, and then moved on with my life like it never happened.
It wasn’t until I started to write that I began to learn in earnest. Five simple techniques facilitate this process. You can use these techniques individually or combined.
1. Apply One Concept To Multiple Domains
Let’s start with the basics. Most subject domains revolve around human behavior or human nature (hard sciences like chemistry and physics are the obvious exception). There is significant overlap of the underlying theories, concepts and ideas.
When it comes to human nature, these lessons and observations are wide-ranging. You can port knowledge from one domain and…
