You’ll be doing a lot of learning as a business owner if you want to attract success. You’ll learn skills, which will help you manage daily tasks and operations; facts and information about your industry, vendors and competition; lessons from fellow entrepreneurs to enable you improve.
But while you’re juggling the responsibilities and demands of entrepreneurship, you may find it difficult to learn new things.
However, these 4 steps will help you learn anything, efficiently and faster:
1. Pick up what you wish to learn and immerse yourself
Start by picking up something –a topic or skill–that you want to learn about.
Break down the components of the topic and examine each piece individually. Once you understand the individual parts, you’re on your way to completely understanding that topic.
When learning something new, it’s helpful to focus solely on the most important elements or fundamentals of the subject. You can study the origin of something, and the events that led to it.
2.Talk to someone who knows the topic so well
Talking to someone who already knows a subject that you’re trying to understand will take you five steps forward to knowing it all.
This person is capable of introducing fresh takes based on his/her experience. For a skill, the best way to learn will be from someone with the skill who probably is currently an expert.
Seek out and talk to people who have already learned what you’re learning; ask them for advice, and you’ll get it.
3. Practice/Apply
Practise consistently. The way our brains are wired, the more we do something, the more entrenched it becomes in our memory.
Practice births mastery.
4. Explain what you’ve learned to someone else.
If you want to test your knowledge on a subject, try explaining it to someone else. This forces you to reword your innate knowledge, and revisit it from the ground up. This way, you’ll be able to know whether or not you’ve truly internalised new information.
Explain or show your newly learned topic or skill to both adults and children.
Bonus: Keep learning and updating yourself
Practising and internalising isn’t all there is to learning something new. You have to also stay updated on the subject matter.
