Live Today With Passion: But the other great secret is that we're
good at lifelong learning
Warren is so much better in some ways in
his seventies and eighties and it was
younger that's almost awesome way if you
keep learning all the time you have a
huge advantage and we both just like it
and we have a wonderful rubber friends
really wonderful from home we can learn
one
yeah how do you learn faster
I i get asked this one actually quite a
bit because people come to me my
seminars or programs or they're experts
in a given space like okay running I
want to advance you don't become a
high-performing my area and I know to
become a high performer I i gotta learn
faster so how do i do that well let me
first tell you what not to do because a
lot of people just jump in there and
learn fast i wanna learn speed-reading i
wanna learn you know a new language I
want to learn all these new skills and
learn all these things and what is
happening is people are very transient
with their learning goals
what do you mean by that i mean they're
kind of phony about they really don't
want to learn this I'd like to learn
this
I like the one that someday I'd like to
learn this someday I'd like to learn
French someday I'd like to learn how to
do photos some days I'd like to blog
someday i like to do video and they
never actually learned because learning
doesn't happen someday
it has to happen consistently and that's
the thing if we're really going to get
the point where you learn something
faster we have to approach learning
itself differently
it can't be these one-off little goals
of little things we want to learn that
doesn't work for people they don't stay
consistent just like people don't stay
consistent on a diet if just their goal
is to lose five pounds
there has to be a broader vision for who
they are and what they want to be about
and what they want their life to be
about if they're going to stay on a diet
same thing for learning if you're going
to stay on a learning habit then you
have to have a bigger vision for
yourself
so let's start with this conversation if
you want to learn something faster you
must first and foremost know the
connection between what you want to
learn and your dream life
you're real lifestyle that you want to
have I tell you all the time like don't
just come up with things you want to
learn because that's what we want to
learn everything by human build we are
curious animals were definitely curious
i mean we are literally the curiosity
killed the cat is it sort of society
right now everyone wants to learn 50 new
things immediately but no one ever
learns anything why because it's not
real for them is a transient desire if
you want to become a great learner it
has to be attached to a dream life of
yours but true true lifestyle you see
for yourself
let me go example of people say i'd like
to learn some french that someday I'm
gonna learn French something I learned
how to talk French because it's a
romantic language I like the food they
get lots of allowances on cheese and
wine i like that right hand so I'm
French i can say a little bit of that ok
so I have a little piece of French me i
should say so here's what's happening if
I don't have the vision for myself
someday going to experience France or
some day going to place where they speak
French or someday having real
interactions with a human being
speaking French and it's important to me
and it's a deep sort of dream desire
vision for that I'm never going to do
the work to actually learn French
there's no why
there you have to know what you want of
your life before you become a master
learner
he said Ian you have to know what you
want of your life before you become a
master learner until I know what I want
my life to be about what I want to
experience on daily basis what I want my
dreams to be who I want to be I don't
know what to learn i'm just going to be
curious about things and I'll dabble in
them but that path to a real true
mastery is that part where we say okay
what I want my life to be about now let
me develop the knowledge the skills the
competencies the capabilities to build
into that life and that's where you get
someone becomes the master learner i
have mastered almost every skill that
was necessary for me to achieve my
personal dream life everything I said
okay gosh if I want to do what I want to
do and for me I want to become a writer
and a trainer and an online thought
leader wondering books
want to train people live and i wanted
to do online marketing and online
thought leadership so I could share my
message with the world and hopefully
inspire people to live more fully to
love more openly and make a greater
difference i had the message and then I
had the mediums books seminars lives
events online stuff right well for me
that was part of my dream life so I had
to learn things along there to get there
that I never wanted to really learn per
se but I had to learn how to video I had
to learn how to code and build web pages
i had to learn online marketing I had to
learn what to do on facebook what to do
here on YouTube what to do on podcast I
had to learn all of that and it became a
master learn because i was deeply
attached to a mission that makes sense
you won't know what to learn and what to
develop real combat capabilities into
until you know what your mission is and
you desire what a real dream is
otherwise you just kind of play around
with skills you'll play around with
learning something but you'll never
immerse yourself into them so once you
know okay what do you want your life to
be about what are your real passions
you'll learn what you have to learn
along the way then everything changes
now I'm not saying you have to know your
ultimate purpose in life before you can
learn anything I'm just saying if you
want to learn faster start figuring out
that purpose start figuring out your
direction you'll learn a lot faster
from there it's really tactic and what
the tactic and learning is as we all
know all tactics to learning always
begin with number one examples if you
want to learn something you need to be
able to model something you'd be able to
see somebody who's already done it
you need to do read about somebody's
already done it you need to experience
somebody's already done it you have to
not start from scratch the worst thing
you can do in learning is start from
scratch because with no foundation of
what's work before you're just making
stuff up and you're reinventing the
wheel and that's the slowest way to
learn because you know the wheel was
invented a couple thousand years ago so
the worst thing you could do is say well
yeah let me just go start trying too
much stuff that's not learning that's
called being an idiot and being an idiot
is about just bumbling through life
without realizing somebody's already
done it for you so go read a book about
somebody who's done what you want to do
go i take a course from somebody who's
already accomplished
what you want to accomplish go you know
follow somebody's online thing about
who's already done with there's so much
example for you to learn from and it has
to begin with that because if you have
the dream you have the goal of what you
want to learn and how it means something
to your life once you've got that goal
now it's about ok go learn from somebody
who already did it
that will give you a leg up so fast once
you learn what they've already done the
second element is practice you've got to
make a consistent practice out of
mastering skillsets if you are going to
ever really learn anything
does that mean I mean daily exposure and
immersion into what it is you're trying
to learn daily if you're going to try to
learn piano you're not gonna learn it
you know going to piano class once a
month if you want to learn French you're
not going to learn it you know talking
to somebody who speaks French once a
month or even once a week it has to be
more than that if you want to learn
something you have to deeply immersed in
it over a long period of time it can't
be a weekend event or seminar it can't
be a a one-time course it has to be
something you get into for me personal
development i mean i read a book a week
on person development and I've done it
for 17 years straight
never missed a week even when I was in
the hospital it was a dedication to me i
was going to learn it was going to
master my life I was gonna learn to
master my mind ask my relationships
mastermind finances master my health
it was so important to me that I made a
daily rally I read every single day
something that can further my personal
growth every day and I never miss but i
do that same thing with everything else
i get into any skill i want to learn
what I wanted a little video man I
immersed myself and learning how to use
the cameras and learning the lights and
learn and I was doing myself first
before we had mr. shields here rocking
it
I mean I was by myself and I had to
learn those things I had to learn what I
want to do web pages every day i was
building trying to do something when I
want to learn coding every day
learning trying on the market every day
and if you're someone like when I can't
give every day to learning something
great
then you're giving every day to the
steady decline of your competencies
don't tell me that you can take
something every day to learn and grow if
you don't feel like you can take some
time every day to learn and grow then
your mismanaging your life and
somebody's got to say that you probably
already know it so I'm not trying to be
flipping I'm just being real
if you're not taking some time every day
to learn something i don't know that
you're ever going to develop mastery in
anything and if you don't ever develop
any some form of some level of mastery
in something you'll never become the
most influential what you do or the
hilus paid what you do or or really have
a connection to it where it feels like
it's art and it's part of you and I
think that what's lacking for a lot of
people right now as they have a
disconnection or disassociation from any
sense of mastery in their life because
if we're not mastering something and
working towards getting better something
that we are never ever going to sense
progress and we never ever since
progress will never ever since that deep
sense of satisfaction fulfillment joy
happiness that comes from being
excellent at something so you have to
practice something and something
constantly at some level every day if
you check into it or you look at herida
or even if it's just following somebody
who is doing it and you read their
tweets every day or their Facebook every
day or you read a segment or a book or
an article on it every day
whatever it is make it a daily practice
of constancy that lasts over long period
of time people go wow how'd you get so
good at this and you'll tell him i
worked at it every day
that's why there's no mystery
I got good at it because I did it every
day I got good these videos because i do
them all the time i mean i miss natural
for me I don't have a script yards i was
talking with you then I can do that
because I've done it so much so i'm
sharing with you it's immersion and
constancy in a practice a habit of
learning that very thing that you have a
goal for and dream I for that will take
another level and then that next element
down his feedback getting feedback
immediately from somebody you will
become world-class sports person you
need a coach you will become a
world-class person at whatever you're
doing you need somebody look at it and
give you feedback
maybe it's a mentor who gives you
feedback on your presentations or your
art maybe it's a friend of yours who has
a discriminating I could you can look at
things and give a good valuable
constructive feedback and you say hey
before i send us out because you guys
look at this
alright it's about getting feedback from
even it could be your friend your family
your spouse or lover somebody who can
look at what you're going to contribute
to the world first and say I like this i
don't like this
lots of people will judge and there's
some things that can destroy learning
and that is when people are so a brutal
in their feedback or their judgment
about something that stops your learning
your goal and getting feedback is to
never stop the learning take the
feedback for whatever value it is if it
came from a dark place and a mean person
don't listen to it doesn't it there's
nothing relevant there is from the wrong
space but if it's um som somebody who
loves somebody you know like and trust
and is delivered in a way that you
didn't like well you're listening for
the value in which you can improve
something not listening for how do you
feel right
lots of people say to me things all the
time alternate very brutal feedback i'll
get on YouTube sometimes is people
saying terrific mean things about me or
my life or my business or whatever the
make stuff up but I don't listen to that
I see it but it means nothing to me
and it shouldn't mean anything to either
once people are harsh for you and they
don't know you but if someone does know
your heart and they do know who you are
and they give you feedback but you don't
like the way that was delivered or e you
feel that they were two continental
confrontive or or or rude
I don't need you to listen to the
emotion of what they're delivering and I
don't need you to feel what it feels
like I wonder is the content of what
they are saying relevant or capable of
improving your learning and your mastery
there if it is you got to take the
content for what it's worth
find the nugget of wisdom they gave you
even if it was wrapped in a big turn
perfect and you can quote me on that one
right there's probably something there
that you can say all right there that is
relevant and if I have pride that I
could probably get better and so that's
vital
so you know these things right yeah you
have to have your dream like what is the
dream you're working towards what is
your passion your purpose your vitality
that that that that that legend you're
working towards that thing you want to
contribute what is it then go what would
I have to learn to get there because
you'll be passionate about learning
those things because you know they bring
you directly to your dream then within
each learning on it
what's your goal there were what you
really want to learn then get examples
then practice it then get feedback and
the last piece is have a deadline how
fast you need to learn that how fast you
need to master that is that something
going to master this month this year the
this next decade have a timeline to that
mastery that way now you have like a
competency map you're building up right
you you know what you need to learn
you've got people who can learn it from
you can practice it with these habits
you can get feedback from these types of
people and these types of experiences
and you know you got to do it and get
good at this certain time you will start
to learn faster you'll be more engaged
with your life will have more enthusiasm
for learning you'll notice things more
you feel like you're growing and more
satisfied with your life
that's what we call feeling the charge
life