This Proven 8-Steps Process Will Help You Learn Anything

Learn from my three years of experimentation and research

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“I want to learn to play the drums,” my mentor said.

“I want to learn programming,” a member of my private mastermind said.

“I want to be a writer like you,” said another member.

What do you think all three have in common?

They all procrastinated.

I’ve known my mentor for over a year and every time I ask him about his progress… crickets! The one who said they’d learn programming read and watched (not taking action) tutorials online. The one who said they’d become a writer has one or two unpublished drafts.

Are they the exception? Certainly not!

The biggest enemy of learning is procrastination. I can give you every trick in the book, but if you can’t fight off procrastination, all will be for naught. Everyone procrastinates without the right motivation to do something.

The following eight steps will help you push through and give you a better idea of how learning happens.

If you follow even just the first step, you’re already ahead of most people. The deeper you go into the steps, the more unstoppable you’ll become in learning new skills.

This process has been the work of three years of experimentation and research. They are not intuitive. You will likely debate the order of some steps. But from my experience and observation of other learners, this order has proven to be the most successful at two things:

1. Making sure the learner follows through and doesn’t procrastinate; and
2. Learn effectively

Let’s go through the steps!

#1 — Just do it

“Just do it” — Nike

Here’s a simple two-step process to get you to do something “bold”:

• Ask yourself: “What’s the worst that can happen?”; then
• Do it.

The simple truth is, if you are not doing, you are not learning. I know this isn’t quite the ground-breaking revelation you were hoping for, but it’s a…