Learn-To-Learn

Yes, we need to be able to delve deeply into something to understand it. We also need to be able to step back to be able to see the greater context and the greater dimension of insight that that brings. Here's how.

We’re bring back another popular podcast for a Bonus Repost! The story that we tell ourselves about who we are and what has happened in our life has a huge impact on what happens in our life today. We explore here how to rewrite that life script and then how to get a different result today. This is easy and well worth doing.

So often we're told that if we want to succeed we just have to work harder and harder. We also need to develop and utilize our capacity to recover. This is one of those magic keys.

All of us know the feeling of forgetting where we placed our keys or, even worse, forgetting something on a test or some other piece of important information. That’s actually natural and something our brain does automatically if we don’t properly store information. In this micro-series episode, we discuss the differences between short and long-term memory, and in our full episode related to memory...

If we can only see one perspective on something it is though we live in a one-dimensional world. If we want our world to come alive, if we want to live in a three or four dimensional world, we have to learn how to have a multitude of perspectives. Find out how to enrich your world!

For us, understanding the challenges of learning is fundamental to helping students and lifelong learners better engage with their world. In this micro-series episode, we explain a bit about why we feel the need to explore and better understand these challenges, as well as explain why many of us have internalized and experience challenges with learning to begin with. If this is interesting and hel...

Attention is our number one superpower. To be able to do anything else, to be able to remember something, to be able to visualize something, to be able to accomplish something, we first have to be able to pay attention. How do we do this better? Join us and we'll explore that together.

Active listening is an incredible way to engage in active learning. When we’re actively trying to engage with the material, it helps us to pay attention, enjoy our time more fully, and make connections from the topic to our world. In this micro-series episode, we explore some of what it means to actively listen and how that can help us. To hear more about learning and listening, take a look at our...

A student we interviewed explains how finding her ‘why,’ her drive and motivation for doing what she’s doing, impacted her ability to succeed in school and on her tests. You can listen to the full interview about her experience with the Learn-To-Learn Podcast in the episode titled “An Interview with Jessie Who Used Our System.”

Without memory, there is no learning. With memory anything is possible. Hear the tips you need.

You know this is what you've been looking for. Jump on this podcast with us and find out just how easy you can make it.

In this micro-series episode, we explore the questions relevant to why our memory is related to and important for learning. We answer these questions in our full episode about memory, titled “Amplify Memory to Be Better at Learning and at Life.” If this is interesting and helpful to you, we dive much deeper into this and so many other topics in our full podcast, which you can find here: http://how...

Our perspective is one of the most powerful attributes that any of us have and yet most of us don't know how to use this attribute. Here are the answers you need.

Depending on what we’re trying to learn, we may need to rely more heavily on different senses. In our episode “Become a Powerful Listener,” we explore how learning is particularly impacted by listening, and we talk about that briefly in this micro-series episode. If this is interesting and helpful to you, we dive much deeper into this and so many other topics in our full podcast, which you can fin...

By this time we all know how important visualization is. Is there a way to take it further and make it even more effective?

When faced with challenges in life or in our learning, we all must decide to either give up or overcome that challenge. We explain in this micro-series episode why it’s important to work towards overcoming those obstacles to engage more fully with our world and to be more successful in school or anything else we’re trying to accomplish. If this is interesting and helpful to you, we dive much deepe...

If we don't aim high, we don't exceed. This is the podcast for those of you that want more and want to know how to get there now. Get on board.

In this clip from an interview we did with a student (listen to the full interview in our episode, “An Interview with Jessie Who Used Our System”), Jessie explains how the Learn-To-Learn Podcast was able to help her develop a deeper sense of motivation for her finals. The specific episode she mentions is called “Motivation for Success,” but we also have other episodes that touch on motivation if y...

Metacognition is how we think about thinking. This gives us the insights to past hour performing now and to reach so much further. This is fundamental to learning how to learn.

There are many things in our life that we can’t control, however much we may want to. What we can control, however, is our attitude. How we direct and where we place our attitude is crucial for our ability to stay focused on our goals and to be successful in many areas of our lives. We touch more on this briefly in our episode titled “Amplify Memory to Be Better at Learning and at Life,” and we ha...

All of us get stuck at times. When we do, we're often without the resources to figure out how to get out of it. This podcast gives us those answers that we need to free ourselves once again.

Discover the essence of pattern recognition in just minutes. Our micro-series episode explores how our brains decipher patterns in the world. Tune in to unravel the cognitive magic behind everyday perceptions and learn even more in our full episode, “Pattern Recognition Is At The Root of Intelligence - Part 1.” If this is interesting and helpful to you, we dive much deeper into this and so many ot...

The root of discipline is not enforcing ourselves to do things but using our imagination to hold our goals clearly in front of us so that we know exactly where we're going and how to get there. Outer success is a result of using our imagination well. It's easier than you might think.

Many people find school to be boring, uninteresting, and uninspiring. As a result, it can be difficult to find meaning and motivation to study and learn. In this micro-episode we talk about why it’s important to develop a greater sense of meaning for learning beyond school, and we go much further into this in our full episode: “Meaning Makes Learning Like Magic.”

To get real success we have to make the best decisions. Most of us don't know the strategies to use in ourselves to make the best decisions. We delve into how the best decision makers make those great decisions. You can learn to do the same.