Sure, some books on learning are good. But good isn’t enough in our era.
At least not if you want real results.
In a time when AI, remote education and cognitive breakthroughs are reshaping how we grow, you need exceptional learning guides.
I’m talking about books that go beyond theory and actually rewire how you think, remember and master new skills.
That’s exactly why I put together this list.
But why should you care about my suggestions?
As an author of multiple educational guides, I’ve spent decades refining the strategies that helped me get my Phd and later help thousands of learners.
I must be doing something right because thousands of people have sought the lessons I’ve learned through my podcast, videos, courses and one-on-one coaching.
And during the fifteen years I’ve been teaching accelerated learning skills, I’ve seen firsthand what works, what doesn’t and how different approaches resonate depending on what you’re at with your learning journey now.
That’s why I’m not going to dump a generic list on you. I’ve carefully categorized these books based on specific learning goals.
But I’m only human, and obviously not every book I list is going to resonate with everyone.
So before we get into the various suggestions, let me give you a quick quiz that will help you determine where to start. It should also give you a solid framework for thinking about the kinds of books most likely to serve you.
Which Learning Book Is Right For You? (A Learning Professor’s Quiz)
I’m excited to give you my suggestions, but please first use your current reflective thinking skills to answer the following questions.
Grab a notebook to jot down your thoughts in writing to these simple questions.
There’s no pressure to come up with the “right” answer. All you have to do is be honest.
When you tell it like it is, your answers will help point you to the perfect book for where you are right now as a lifelong learner.
What’s your biggest frustration with learning something new?
Here are some example answers to help prompt your reflections.
- I start strong but quickly lose motivation.
- I forget everything I study.
- I don’t know where to begin.
- I struggle to find the main points when I read.
Answer this question will help pinpoint the exact issue you’re facing.
Is it memory? Discipline? Overwhelm? These are all interrelated, but distinct issues. It’s worth figuring out which of them takes top priority as you look through the books below.
How much do you know about how learning actually works?
Your answers might look like:
- Barely anything. I just throw mud at the wall and see what sticks.
- I’ve heard a bit about spaced repetition and active recall.
- I’ve read a lot about memory science.
Assessing your foundational knowledge will help point you toward introductory overviews if you need them.
Or, you can take a deeper dive into something more advanced. It pays to when you’re on the hunt for the best books on learning.
How much time do you realistically have to learn each week?
Here are some sample answers I’ve received from my private coaching clients to whom I’ve given this quiz:
- 10 minutes a day.
- A few hours on the weekend.
- I feel so swamped, it’s as if I have no time at all.
When you get more clarity on your scheduling constraints, you’ll find itself easier to match yourself to books that offer quick tips or long-term strategies.
What’s one thing you’ve learned successfully in the past and how did you do it?
Here are some possible answers to get you started:
- I learned to stretch properly by watching YouTube.
- I memorized medical terminology using flashcards.
- I winged a big exam and just got lucky… I guess.
Really take your time on these questions.
By uncovering your existing strength and previous wins, you can select books that will help you build on what’s already working.
How confident are you in your current approach to learning?
For this question, you can give yourself a numbered rating, i.e.:
- 1/10 because I’m just winging it.
- 6/10 because I’ve got a system, but it’s still hit or miss.
- 9/10 and I’m ready to level up.
Gauging your self-awareness and current state of readiness using hard numbers is helpful because it will direct you to either beginner, intermediate or advanced learning books.
What’s your endgame? Why do you want to get better at learning?
Although all of the previous questions matter, this one is the most important. For example, you might answer:
- To switch careers.
- To help my kids.
- To enjoy a hobby better.
- To feel more mentally sharp.
- To master a new language.
- To pass an exam.
Everyone’s priorities are unique, so make sure you clarify your personal motivations.
It’s okay to have more than one. In fact, it’s ideal. That was you can interleave between more than one book about learning tactics without confusing matters.
Now that you’ve spent some time answering these questions, let’s get into my recommendations.
Books By Learning Goal
There are many books that address different goals.
That’s why this list is split up in categories. I hope you find this particular arrangement useful.
I’m also giving each book a 1-10 rating.
They’re all on this list because they deserve to be, but the numbered rating specifically indicates how many gems I think you can expect to find.
However, when it comes to expectations, keep this important point in mind:
I am expecting you to complete all of the reflection questions before looking at any of these suggested books.
Please make sure that you’ve maximized your clarity by completing the initial exercises above. That will boost up the value of not only my book list, but every other book list you encounter going forward.
Books for Studying & Learning Faster
When it comes to learning faster, there’s one thing to keep in mind:
Efficiency comes from having the most effective foundations possible.
When your foundations are in place, that will make greater learning speed happen almost on its own.
One: How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing Learning and Thinking by Sönke Ahrens
- Rating: 7/10
- Learning goal: note taking
- Short summary: As the title promises, you’ll learn a simple technique that improves how your learn
- Standout quote: “If you encounter resistance or an opposing force, you should not push against it, but redirect it towards another important goal.”
There are quite a few books about the Zettelkasten technique available. But what makes Ahrens’ book unique is that he walks you through multiple aspects of Niklas Luhmann‘s learning and writing routine.
Although I personally use Zettelkasten in a much more fluid way than Luhmann, Ahrens does well to stress the need for flexibility.
So if you find yourself wallowing though books with a slow and ineffective study method, this book will give you not just any old protocol.
You’re getting a glimpse into how one of the fastest and most productive learners organized the knowledge he was studying, remembered it and used it to create unique insights.
Two: How to Study by George Fillmore Swain
- Rating: 8/10
- Learning goal: Study habits
- Short summary: As an engineering professor, Swain presents a systematic approach to studying.
- Standout quote: “Learn where to go to find out what you do not know.”
Although it’s from way back in 1917, Swain’s How to Study is packed with practical advice.
He’s not just lecturing at you, either. He forwards the wisdom of giants of learning like Pascal and Berkeley.
For me, the most powerful tip in his book is the idea of creating your own index.
Although he doesn’t quite say how, I interpreted this in a few ways. One is the Zettelkasten technique.
The other is a tactic you can see above. It basically involves writing the page number of an idea and then my key reflections at the beginning of the book.
Much of Swain’s advice is repeated by other books on learning, so if you want a short read that gives you the foundations, please don’t miss this book.
Three: Learning How to Learn by Barbara Oakley and Terrence Seynowski
- Rating: 10/10
- Learning goal: Scholastic success
- Short summary: Although directed at kids, this science-backed book is also fantastic for adult learners.
- Standout quote: “Doing the ‘hard start’ technique allows you to use your brain as a sort of double processor. Your diffuse mode can take over the hard problem as soon as you drop your focus on it.”
As is well known, Barbara Oakley in particular is legendary for making learning fun.
What I love about this book above all is how it doesn’t shy away from teaching you why the learning techniques you’ll discover within work.
You can see that excellent feature these authors bring in the standout quote above.
In my view, that’s incredibly valuable because they never advise you to do something that admittedly feels counterintuitive without a clear reason for implementing that action.
Four: Ultralearning by Scott Young
- Rating: 8/10
- Learning goal: Mindfully directing yourself towards skills mastery.
- Short summary: Young shares the background behind Scott Young‘s many learning feats, from drawing to completing degrees.
- Standout quote: “When you see yourself as lacking the potential to be good at something or believe that you’ll always be behind everyone else no matter how hard you work, it robs you of the motivation to work hard.”
As with Barbara Oakley, Young is good at making sure you know why the techniques he’s sharing work.
Personally, I found that the number of stories used to illustrate various tactics dragged the book down.
But Young definitely serves as proof of concept. In his follow-up, Get Better at Anything, you can instantly see how Young has improved at integrating stories with the lessons and their takeaways.
That said, I think Ultralearning is definitely the book from Young to start with if your goal is strictly to study and learn faster.
Five: Didascalicon by Hugh of St. Victor
- Rating: 8/10
- Learning goal: Developing a structured framework for learning in ways that lead to wisdom.
- Short summary: Aimed at students, this book stresses the importance of going beyond merely accumulating facts. It’s about using what you learn to help order your mind.
- Standout quote: “I know there are certain fellows who want to play the philosopher right away. They say that stories should be left to pseudo apostles. The knowledge of these fellows is like that of an ass. Don’t imitate persons of this kind.”
This book is not just any blast from the past. Hugh of St. Victor was a major innovator in helping students read well during a time of transition.
Although writing during the medieval era, his students were nearly as distracted then as they are today. And they were just as starved for meaning in their lives.
Hugh also helps you develop persistence, humility and the kind of mindset that pushes through obstacles.
Speaking of mindset, that’s the category of learning books we’re examining next.
Books on Developing a Learning Mindset
Dealing with doubt is one of the biggest struggles learners face.
I’ve felt it myself many times. And every extraordinary learner I know has had to learn how to keep showing up when the going gets tough.
Not just show up, though.
They need to keep coming at it with lessons learned from thinking reflectively about why their brains were tempted by doubt and other objections.
The books we’re about to look at will give you the mental strength needed to show up armed with self-analysis.
That way, you avoid repeating the same mistakes.
Six: Striking Thoughts: Wisdom for Daily Living by Bruce Lee
- Rating: 9/10
- Learning goal: Learning in ways that lead you to the highest possible levels of success.
- Short summary: This book combines short passages with various definitions, such as how exactly to think about analysis and abstract thinking in Lee’s view. In addition to mindsets for learning, you will learn a lot about the role of the teacher as part of your journey.
- Standout quote: “If you learn concepts, if you work for information, then you don’t understand. You can only explain.”
One of Lee’s main concerns is that you learn to divide how your mind categories everything from how reality actually works.
His various thoughts point constantly to seeing the big picture, or as much of totality as your brain can possibly perceive.
Although there are no exercises as such, having this book on your shelf will let you dip into his philosophy when you need a mindset shift.
I consult it often myself. Even though I don’t agree with everything Lee says, this book always helps me return my focus to what really matters.
Seven: The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery by Adam Gopnik
- Rating: 10/10
- Learning goal: Understanding the truth about mastery and achieving it.
- Short summary: Gopnik immerses you in various learning goals he gives himself. You’ll meet a variety of mentors and discover what the real work is all about as he learns a variety of new skills.
- Standout quote: “Almost all of our useful knowledge is potential knowledge.”
We often throw around the word “mastery.” But what does it really mean?
Gopnik takes us deep into the mystery and provides many ways of looking at the question as you learn along with him.
One of the key points is that even if you don’t use certain skills and topics you study, their potential is empowering.
Throughout the book is a theme of learning’s hiddenness and a kind of vicious circle. We often can’t understand how to learn things because we never get started. And because we never get started, we never understand the process.
Added to this is the fact that so many skills lead to situations where we can’t even experience the skills we learn. It’s an abstract point, but I think you’ll know what I mean when you come across it in the book.
Eight: Mindshift by Barbara Oakley
- Rating: 9/10
- Learning goal: Break through your obstacles.
- Short summary: Drawing on her understanding of the science of learning, Oakley helps you experience a mindshift through stories, research and exercises.
- Standout quote: “Practice and repeat little chunks of learning over the course of several days. This will create the neural patterns that underlie your gradually growing expertise. The more difficult the little chunks are to learn, and the more deeply you learn them, the more rapidly your expertise will grow.”
You know that you have to explore alternatives to the way things are going in your learning life.
But what if you can’t change your mind and move yourself in a new direction?
In this book, Oakley explains the reasons why you get stuck. And as the quote above shows, a chunking memory strategy is a big part of what will help you start to transform.
As with her Learning How to Learn book and course, Oakley explains the science behind why it’s possible for you to rewire even the most stubborn brain.
This book helped me understand why so many people resist some of the simplest learning steps involved with memory techniques. I’ve improved as a teacher thanks to this book, and understood my own resistances better.
Nine: Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People’s Minds by Howard Gardner
- Rating: 7/10
- Learning goal: Develop deeper and more intellectually rich standards for yourself.
- Short summary: Gardner analyzes various examples of how people used analysis to create personal and group change.
- Standout quote: “Avoid egocentrism – becoming ensnared in one’s own construal of events.”
Whereas Oakley’s Mindshift focuses on science, Gardner is more concerned with research and implementation.
For example, he suggests the following basic model for learning how you can change yourself or others:
- Research widely (both books and the content of your own mind)
- Find and challenge resistances
- Know the available resources
- Know the rewards that come from change
- Find non-threatening ways to “test” your new identity
- Use “representational redescription”
The book has some abstract elements to it. But overall, the stories provide many examples of individual and organizational change. Every serious learner will find plenty of food for thought in this title.
Ten: The Sword and the Mind: The Classic Japanese Treatise on Swordsmanship and Tactics by Munenori Yagyū
- Rating: 9/10
- Learning goal: Freeing your mind of distractions.
- Short summary: The second part of the book is most useful for helping you perceive situations correctly and react appropriately.
- Standout quote: “If you constrain your mind, you will be unfree. You put your mind on a tight rein only while you are a beginner. If you continue to do so all your life, you will never reach the advanced stage, but end of remaining at a low stage.”
For Yagyū true mastery requires a mind free from distractions, preconceived thoughts and hesitation.
Although there’s a lot of talk about creating a unity between your sword and your mind, you can apply the ideas to whatever you’re learning as a topic or training to use as a tool.
That’s because ultimately, the sword in this learning manual represents your will. That’s why technique alone will never be sufficient. You need to develop mental clarity.
For that reason, the stronger your mind, the better your ability to avoid fear and cloud your mind with unnecessary judgement.
Whether it’s books for school or paint brushes and guitars, master your topic or tool and you will master yourself.
Books on How the Brain Learns
Even if you’re not interested in the science of learning, you will pick up many clues for what to do and how to do it from them.
In this section of the list, I’m sharing with you some of my favorite and the practical tips I’ve taken from them.
Eleven: The Web of Life: A New Synthesis of Mind and Matter by Fritjof Capra
- Rating: 7/10
- Learning goal: Metacognition about how learning takes place.
- Short summary: Essentially a study in systems thinking, you’ll know about how we humans can be certain about what we know.
- Standout quote: “The brain is, of course, not the only structure through which the process of cognition operates. The entire dissipative structure of the organism participates in the process of cognition, whether or not the organism has a brain and a higher nervous system.”
Although dates, this book remains worth reading to help understand the big picture of how, not just humans, but all organisms learn.
As Capra shows, communication is not as simple as words flowing between us. It is a coordination of multiple behaviors.
This means that we’re not always aware of our true motivations.
This fact means that our relationship to science is more complex than it seems. Capra’s theory of “approximate knowledge” and how we fill in our blind spots will get you asking much more subtle questions about how you learn.
Twelve: The Experience Machine by Andy Clark
- Rating: 10/10
- Learning goal: Understand why your brain succeeds or fails due to predictive processing.
- Short summary: Clark shows how and why your mind deals fails to learn in so many situations where the solutions are “obvious.”
- Standout quote: “One important and consistent finding in this area is that chronic depression involves a resistance to updating our negative expectations when confronted with what ought to be good evidence of positive outcomes.”
This book struck a nerve with me.
As I shared in one of my own books, I was once my worst enemy in therapy I desperately needed. No matter what I was told, I could not learn to do things a better way.
The Experience Machine explains why this happens to even the smartest people who “should” know better.
Although slim on practical exercises, it does have a few suggestions at the end.
But even just realizing that there’s a reason behind certain learning struggles can help shake you out of your situation. Insight is an asset.
Books on Language Learning
I’ve been learning languages for a long time and have read many books on the topic of reaching fluency.
The tips all tend to repeat themselves, and boil down to what I call “The Big Five of Language Learning.”
If you begin nowhere else, start with my first pick in this category.
Thirteen: Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner
- Rating: 10/10
- Learning goal: Develop fluency in a language.
- Short summary: Wyner explains language learning strategies from his experiences picking them up as a professional opera singer.
- Standout quote: “Fluency, after all, isn’t the ability to know every word and grammatical pattern in a language; it’s the ability to communicate your thoughts without stopping every time you run into a problem.”
Although now Wyner is probably better known for the Fluent Forever app, this book not only started it all. It remains an incredibly valuable guide.
One of my favorite aspects involves Wyner’s take on making your own flashcards. Getting my hands involved with a variety of colors helped me get more results from mnemonics.
All the more so because as much as I love memory techniques, sometimes health issues make them harder to use. Having his alternative approaches has been golden.
Fourteen: The Story Learning Books by Olly Richards
- Rating: 10/10
- Learning goal: Guidance for reading daily in the language you’re studying.
- Short summary: Although these books are more about implementation, they give fantastic guidance on how to use reading to develop fluency.
- Standout quote: “Make a note of the unknown word in a notebook and check the meaning later.”
That quote might not sound epic to you, but it is.
So many go back and forth to the dictionary, harming their progress.
In reality, you will do better by batching the various parts of the Big Five. When it comes to reading, read.
The only finesse I would add is that you don’t have to write out words in a notebook. That is a good thing to do.
But when I read foreign language books, I use what I call the “Marginalia dot.”
It’s just a small dot next to the line where I’ve found a word or phrase I want to memorize later. I limit myself to three new words per page, thereby avoiding overwhelm.
Then, when reviewing the page, I have a nice target-scanning test while reminding myself of the word I was interested in learning. And I’ve batched the gathering of the new vocabulary into its own task, followed by looking in the dictionary.
In other words, the process is:
- Read and leave small dots to help quickly find the interesting words and phrases later.
- Collect those words and phrases.
- Looking them up.
- Memorize them.
Richards’ Story Learning books have been golden for helping me keep consistent with this process.
Books on Creative Learning
Just as using the Marginalia dot and creating your own flashcards get your hands involved in the learning process, our next book involves paper and pen.
Fifteen: Mind Map Mastery by Tony Buzan
- Rating: 9/10
- Learning goal: Creatively solving problems and learning by using a variety of types of mind maps.
- Short summary: You’ll learn about several kinds of mind maps for everything from understanding your notes to mind mapping for business development.
- Standout quote: “A Mind Map relies on the power of Radiant Thinking rather than on deduction and reduction. As an open-minded thinking tool, a Mind Map charts the process of the brain in action instead of fixating on conclusions and outcomes.”
Mind Map Mastery was one of Tony Buzan’s last books. It is a fitting culmination of all his ideas, many of which I have used in everything from language learning to planning.
Although he mentions the Memory Palace technique, Buzan ultimately abandoned fusing this technique with mind mapping. I believe that was premature and eventually I will bring the two closely together.
In the meantime, Mind Map Mastery is well worth your time.
Sixteen: Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows
- Rating: 10/10
- Learning goal: Learning to better bridge your rational mind with your intuition as a student of how humans use systems in a wide variety of fields.
- Short summary: Meadows explains what systems are and what makes them function well. You’ll learn how to be more productive as a learner by understanding different kinds of systems, including your own current ways of operating in the world.
- Standout quote: “Penetrate their jargons, integrate what the tell you, recognize what they can honestly see through their particular lenses, and discard the distortions that come from the narrowness and incompleteness of their lenses. They won’t make it easy for you.”
Although systems thinking might not seem like a form of creativity, being able to reverse-engineer your own current learning process is the key to improving it.
As you study other proposed learning systems, you’ll also want to do as Meadows suggests in the standout quote I’ve provided: see the limits of everything you learn from. This simple (and systematic) way of learning will help you avoid blindspots as a learner.
Books on Focus for Learning
Distraction is a major problem for all learners.
To help with that, let’s look at a few books that provide tips for focus that will help you out.
Book Seventeen: How to Be a Knowledge Ninja by Graham Allcott
- Rating: 10/10
- Learning goal: Getting focused and organized while studying.
- Short summary: Allcott teaches you how to calm your nerves and love learning.
- Standout quote: “The other thing about the lizard brain, which works for any kind of stress, is that if you convince your body that you’re not stressed, you can actually reduce your stress.”
I’ve long loved this book and dip into it frequently for its concise set of science-backed learning tips.
We often don’t think about how as physical creatures, the quality of our minds is dictated by where we study and how fit we keep ourselves.
Book Eighteen: The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction by Jamie Kreiner
- Rating: 9/10
- Learning goal: To understand how medieval monks dealt with distraction so you can try their techniques.
- Short summary: This fascinating account shows the lengths to which monks went to focus their minds. Although you’ll learn more about what not to do, it’s instructive to discover that people living that long ago faced nearly all the same focus and concentration issues.
- Standout quote: “We often blame our memories for blanking, but monks were likelier to accuse theirs of being hyperactive – and this was an additional threat to their attention.”
I learned about this book by reading Kreiner’s translation of John Cassian in How to Focus.
In addition to discovering the many interesting ways monks tried to reduce distraction from their learning lives, you’ll also find interesting notes on how they used the art of memory.
That is the set of books to which we turn next.
Books for Memory Mastery
When it comes to books on the Memory Palace technique and related mnemonics, it’s hard for me to pick.
That’s because ultimately the “best” books in this field are the ones you’re going to actually use.
To that end, I feel that given the vast number of memory improvement books out there, those that focus on specific outcomes probably provide you with the most bang for your buck.
Give these a try.
Book Nineteen: Memorize the Stoics by Kevin Vost
- Rating: 8/10
- Learning goal: To commit Stoic wisdom to memory.
- Short summary: Vost provides guidance and exercises on applying the Memory Palace technique to quotes and concepts from Stoicism.
- Standout quote: “…viewed from a Stoic perspective, such memory methods could entail a revised impression of our own memory capacities, moving them from what we might have considered outside of our control to something within our control, for some to a surprising extent.”
At times, I have been critical of how Vost creates imaginary Memory Palaces for his readers.
Although I still urge caution around this aspect of his teaching, that doesn’t mean he isn’t one of the clearest instructors on how to use these tools to commit information to memory.
Plus, I find one of my favorite Seneca quotes in Latin in this book. For that, I will remain grateful and his standout quote about coming to surprise yourself by controlling your memory is exactly my experience as an author of memory books designed for specific outcomes.
Book Twenty: The Victorious Mind by Anthony Metivier
- Rating: N/A
- Learning goal: To combine memory techniques with meditation by learning Sanskrit phrases.
- Short summary: In The Victorious Mind, Anthony Metivier brings his terrifying experience of mental illness together with his depth of knowledge of memory systems to show how using mnemonics systematically can ease a troubled mind and replace terror with joy.
- Standout quote: “The techniques that help us accurately lock down useful types of information can override the stories we tell about ourselves, leading to incorruptible recall of simple things that set you free – on demand. Some of the best is both ancient and new every time you use it, but always the same.”
Although I’m wary of including one of my own books, The Victorious Mind has helped quite a few folks achieve better memory along with greater focus and calm.
Its focus on bringing memory techniques together with meditation brings also helps you with language learning goals. Even if you don’t want to commit any of the Sanskrit to memory, you’ll learn mnemonic strategies that apply to all languages you might want to learn.
Miscellaneous Books On Learning and Memory
I would be remiss if I didn’t include a few books that don’t easily fit into any particular category.
Book Twenty-One: Guitar Zero: The Science of Learning to be Musical by Gary Marcus
- Rating: 10/10
- Learning goal: Overcoming the challenges involved in learning a musical instrument.
- Short summary: Bringing together the science of musical cognition with his own adventure in learning to play the guitar, Marcus will help you understand how to develop musical ability.
- Standout quote: “…playing guitar won’t increase how many babies I have, nor will it make them healthier. But maybe, just maybe, the art of reinvention and acquiring new skills can give us a sense of a life well lived.”
As someone who has been a touring musician, Marcus is right. You will have a sense of living a better life by coming to learn at least a little about playing music.
This guide comes at the many barriers people place between themselves and picking up an instrument. Read it and you will help tip yourself in the direction of musical mastery.
Book Twenty-Two: The Knowledge Gene by Lynne Kelly
- Rating: 10/10
- Learning goal: To understand the genetic basis of how and why you learn.
- Short summary: Lynne Kelly continues her epic explanation of how indigenous and pre-historical people learned, providing many clues for how you can improve your learning game.
- Standout quote: “Oral traditions the world over link knowledge to streams, rivers, rocks, lakes, cliffs, hills, trees and other features in their natural memory palaces. The songs, stories and associated knowledge are recalled whenever the landscape is walked, either in reality or in imagination.”
Although less focused on teaching memory techniques as Kelly does marvellously in Memory Craft, the book gets you thinking genetically about everything from music to language learning.
Supplement this one with The Memory Code and you will have a solid basis for understanding learning both historically and scientifically. Along with many ideas for practical applications that get your hands involved along with your imagination.
How to Keep Finding Good Learning Books
I want to conclude this curated list of books tailored to your learning goals with a suggestion.
Most of the books I’ve listed include works cited or bibliographies. Follow up with some of the books the authors you read reference.
This will ensure that you continue learning about the art of educating yourself.
Also, please remember that reading alone won’t transform your mind. But action will.
The real learning almost always begins when you take the learning strategies you discover and apply them.
Please always do so in a spirit of experimentation. That will help you push your limits without needing a particular outcome.
Also, reflect frequently on what happens when you implement. A few simple moments spent putting what happened in writing will help you develop metacognition that leads to even more value.
When it comes to some of the memory techniques we discussed today, grab my free course if you’d like more help:
It gives you four video lessons and three worksheets.
Even better, it will take you on an adventure.
One that never has to be a solo journey.
Because like I said, I’ve written lots of books about learning myself.
And as a lifelong learner, I’ll always share with you new books that I discover. We just need to be on this road together.
So what do you say?
Are you ready to go, read, apply and grow?
I hope so, because the future belongs to those who never stop learning.
