I’ve been listening to a great podcast by Alex Lieberman: Founder’s Journal where he talks about how to learn. He breaks it down into a few different stages. It’s a great podcast that has given me lots of ideas.
I’ve also started to create a second brain in evernote, thanks to Alex’s suggestion to listen to Tiago Forte’s “Building a Second Brain Podcast”
Most people are just consuming lots of information. As I know from my own experience learning Chinese, our memory is actually quite weak. We are only designed to take in the important things that are important to us
Writing is a way to revisit your thoughts to strengthen them but also the act of writing something forces you to crystallise how you actually think about it.
Learning how to write is also one of the most powerful skills you can learn that can completely change your life.
I was also inspired by Ali Abdaal and his thoughts about how he got started writing.
As I do plan to create a Youtube channel in the future myself (besides the content I’ve been doing on China Admissions youtube channel), but I’ve been busy and struggling to get inspiration about topics. So writing content can also be a good, easy first step, and also may give some inspiration for topic ideas.
There is a saying that the best way to learn is to teach, and also if you can’t explain something in simple terms then you don’t know it. The act of trying to simplify something can be a good test to know if you’ve actually learnt it, and a great way to clarify your thinking.
If this can be helpful to others then that can is also a bonus!
I wrote another article about 7 reasons why I write on my linkedin, which I started doing back in 2015. To summarise:
1) As a challenge (It is better to do hard stuff – I’ve also started taking cold showers)
2) To improve my writing ability
3) To learn
4) To improve my quality and clarity of thought
5) To share my knowledge and help others
6) Attract similar people
7) I enjoy it
You can see the original article here.
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