Applying What You've Learned

How learning the art of sensemaking will make you a stronger learner and a more effective thinker.

Why it’s so intimidating to share what you’re working on publicly, and why you should be doing it anyway.

Why talking publicly about what you’re learning helps you become a better thinker.

Edvo’s personal learning workspace has changed how I plan my online courses. Here’s how I use the tool.

If you’ve heard of “explain something like you would if you were teaching a six year old,” you’ve heard of one of the most effective learning strategies, the Feynman Technique. In this article, we'll learn how you can use this technique to learn better in your every day life.

How to improve your reading comprehension and retention in four simple steps.

How to turn your learning process into a creation process every time you learn something new.

In today’s information economy, we have more opportunities than ever before to take learning into our own hands. We have valuable information at our fingertips; it’s the type of information that can completely change how we think, work, and feel. Being intentional about our consumption can allow us to truly take control of our lives; any question we might have, we can discover the answer for ourselves and take action. And when we care about improving how we think, learn, and work in our daily lives, finding the “right” influences and resources can truly be life changing.

Creative thinking is immensely valuable, whether you’re using it to solve problems, create new ideas, or to to navigate different aspects of your life. The problem is that the best creative thinking is often limited by our performance anxieties. What if we’re not good enough? What if we put it all out there and no one appreciates what we’re trying to do? What if we finish, and we can’t even see the value in what we created? These kinds of questions are often what hold us back from unleashing our full creative potential. The good news is, we can not only answer them, we can also free ourselves from even asking these questions in the first place. So how do we increase our creativity?

If you’re here, it’s probably because you’re interested in learning theories and mental models, and by extension, how to be smarter. But in order to fully benefit from these learning theories and mental models, you have to set your mind up for success. Similar to preparing the ground before you garden, doing this work and preparing your mind can help you accelerate your learning.