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Improving Your Ability to Learn Means Leaving Your Comfort Zone

Posted May 23, 2023

In grade school, I was taught that learning came from studious labor, the discipline of memorization and retention of facts.

I carried this same mindset with me into college and later into my first job as a junior programmer.

It wasn't until years later when I became an entrepreneur that I came across a quote by author Josh Waitzkin that completely changed my perspective. "The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity," he wrote. "Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety."

Since that epiphanous moment, I've established several practices to help me improve my ability to learn that I'd like to share with you. Read the full article