Learn-To-Learn

What is the difference between how a child engages with the world, the joy they get from learning and being curious, and how we often engage with the world now? We usually stop engaging from a place of curiosity, but that drive doesn’t go away deep down. We believe that learning and being curious are innate qualities of humans, and we just have to remember and unlock that instinctual drive to be c...

One of the most powerful ways that we humans learn, whether in school, in relationship or in the workplace is through the role models that we have. If you're wanting to learn how to change the role models that we've internalized or find better role models for better success, you've come to the right place. Internalize better role models and get a better life.

So often, we have a fear of failure that keeps us from reaching our goals or even allowing ourselves to imagine big goals for our future. If the idea of “failure” doesn’t exist, what are we afraid of? In this micro-series episode, we look at how we imagine the idea of failure and what that causes us to feel. In our episode “Failure Doesn’t Exist,” we go even further to explain how to overcome the...

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.

What does shame feel like? Or entitlement? These are two big issues that can impact learning. Let’s take a look at what these feelings look like and how they influence our ability to learn and be successful. We cover strategies on how to mitigate shame and entitlement to be more successful and engage more fully with life in our full podcast, “Trapped by Shame and Entitlement.”

Today we’re doing something a little different and reposting our most popular and highly requested podcast; “Overcoming Overwhelm in Our Learning and Our Lives”. Feeling overwhelmed too often stops us from getting done what we need to in our lives. It very often stops students from getting their assignments done and doing well on tests. We share here very specific methods for eliminating that expe...

A lot of people we’ve worked with struggle to get out of bed or get started in the morning – the day just seems to drag by, and it’s hard to get going. There are many ways to address this. In this micro-series episode, we touch on just one simple way. We go much further into this strategy and cover a number of others in our full episode, “Start Your Day Right.”

Most of us have heard of flow states and that they're supposed to be so beneficial to us. But most of us don't know how to access those flow states and how to use them to our advantage. Join us here and exploring that in depth so that you have this advantage.

Most of us can remember what it was like to be curious as a child, asking tons of questions to try and better understand the world around us. Unfortunately, school often doesn’t encourage curiosity within us and can actually discourage us from it.  In this micro-series episode, we touch on what it’s like to re-engage with that child-like sense of curiosity. We go much deeper into this in our full...

Reading more has a significant impact on our ability to be successful in life.  Not only does reading increase our ability to learn, but it can also help reduce stress, help develop emotional intelligence, further integrate neuro pathways, increase overall intelligence... and the list goes on.  We often turn to screens for other forms of entertainment rather than reading, but that doesn't all...

While typically stress is seen as bad, something to be avoided, we introduce here the idea that certain types of stress can be beneficial to our learning and our development. We unpack this in much more depth, and provide strategies for managing bad stress and nurturing good types of stress in our full podcast episode “Put Stress Behind You.”  If this is interesting and helpful to you, we dive muc...

It's pretty obvious if our attitude sucks so do our results. If we're in a negative state, it's like driving with the brakes on. Let's explore together how to manage our attitude so our foot is on the gas and that we get the outcomes that we want.

If our attention is jumping from place to place, if we're easily distracted, the results are pretty obvious. Our attention is one of the few things that we can learn to control fully and that becomes the leverage that we need to change everything else in our life. Let's explore together how to do that.

In this micro-series episode, we talk about the success story of a woman who was discouraged by her teachers and how we were able to help her overcome that limiting belief and recognize that she could learn how to learn quite successfully. Come take a listen and see what we’re capable of without imposing self-limiting beliefs.

We humans are capable of such amazing greatness but we're so often bound and held back from what we can sense are possibilities are. We know it's in us. We just don't know how to get there. We give here tangible steps to step into and live that greatness.

If you notice your life isn’t going the way you want it to, you are in full control to change it. No one can keep you from creating the life you want. Change is also essential for success – we need to adapt and grow from what doesn’t work in our lives to reach our goals.  In this micro-series episode we discuss what really is change, and why it’s important for our success.  You can find more on th...

Many of us are very sensitive to this crazy world that we live in and don't know what to do about that. Maybe we end up being overly sensitive to our teachers, our peers or just the energies around us. Here we explore how to overcome that and make that sensitivity a tremendous gift.

Asking the right questions of ourselves can help us reach a higher level of success in our lives. We have to put in the work to look deeply at our answers and really seek to understand where we’re coming from and what we want; but with that attitude, these questions can give you a huge boost forward into the successful life that you want.  In our full episode titled “Asking the Right Questions Ens...

Intelligence is not a static component of our being. In this mini-series episode, we discuss new research out of the University of Illinois in which the researchers examine various theories about the brain’s role and function with regard to intelligence. If you’re interested, you can find the research article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/p... We have full podcasts and other mini-serie...

Get out from under those chains of limiting views of yourself and live who you're meant to be. We delve deeply here into how concepts limit our learning and limit our success. Then we go on to share with you how to easily and powerfully change those images that we live through.

Oftentimes we can feel overwhelmed by the possibilities we see for our future. In this micro-series episode, we discuss why we feel that way and how we can overcome this feeling. We go over our rationale and strategies in much more depth in our full-length episodes, which you can find by searching for “overwhelm” on our website ( learn-to-learn.org ). 

This is a podcast you have to listen to. Many people subconsciously represent time in a way that works against them. We share the secrets here of how to picture time in a way that for many people removes obstacles that they couldn't quite name. This one is a real treat.

As we approach 100 podcast episodes, we wanted to circle back to why we do this and what’s important to us here at Learn-To-Learn. In this micro-series episode, we touch briefly on what inspires us to do this podcast.

In this micro-series episode, we touch on why learning is important, even when we might already be good learners, great learners, even. Continuing to evolve and develop our ability to learn and engage with the world around us is crucial for our happiness and our sense of fulfillment in our life.  If this is interesting and helpful to you, we dive much deeper into this and so many other topics in o...

Gratitude is one of the most powerful attitudes and tools that we know of to make sure that we are in the best state possible to learn and to do well in the workplace. Gratitude is a skill that we can easily develop and assures us that we can achieve our goals.