Learn-To-Learn
259 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWe are a team with over 40 years of experience in coaching, educating, and supporting others to become better learners. Our passion is to freely support our fellow humans in discovering and expressing their best qualities to the highest degree. We are not looking for donations, sales, or any other outside form of support. We are simply doing our best to get people to participate in recognizing all that is possible for them to learn and sharing with them in ways to bring that about. Our belief is that the best way to do that is to give people the tools, perspectives, and motivation to learn how to more effectively learn in each and every area of their life.
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Presence... Do We Live Large or Small
April 22, 2024 20:00 - 14 minutes - 9.78 MBWe have choice about the identity we live from. If we view ourselves as small, we get small results. How do we move into living from a large presence?
Micro Series: Shrinking Obstacles: A Perspective Shift
April 22, 2024 20:00 - 1 minute - 1.02 MBIn this micro-series podcast episode, we explore the transformative power of reshaping our perspective on obstacles. We can learn to view challenges not as towering mountains, but as simple bumps in the road. By embracing this shift in mindset, we discover the profound impact this simple shift in our perspective and the benefits it brings to the rest of our life.
Micro Series: Training the Learning Muscle
April 16, 2024 15:00 - 1 minute - 977 KBJust as consistent workouts strengthen physical muscles, regular engagement with educational opportunities enhances our capacity to learn. However, societal messages often discourage this mindset, leading many to abandon their potential. Drawing parallels between the gym and the classroom, we encourages you to embrace the transformative power of continuous learning and self-improvement. Join us as we unravel the myth of fixed learning.
Consistency... Making Sure that We Arrive at Our Goal
April 16, 2024 15:00 - 11 minutes - 8.24 MBWe have to consistently apply ourselves to get the outcomes that we so want. How do we develop that consistency? Dive in with us and explore how to make consistency dynamic.
Develop a Growth Mindset
April 09, 2024 16:00 - 13 minutes - 9.18 MBWhen we have a vision that always extends beyond where we are, we are hugely drawn into that future. This is an essential component that we need to move ourselves forward.
Perseverance... Another Secret to Success
April 02, 2024 14:00 - 13 minutes - 9.31 MBWhat do we need to do to be able to persevere. We know that if we can just stick to what we're doing, our chances of success in learning and life become so much greater.
Micro Series: A Guide for Developing and Engaging Your Imagination
April 02, 2024 14:00 - 2 minutes - 1.82 MBIn this episode, we delve into the profound significance of imagination and its transformative potential in our lives. Discover how imagination can either confine us or liberate us and explore practical strategies for nurturing and expanding this vital tool. Drawing insights from the immersive world of children's imaginative play, we uncover the key to unlocking new neural pathways and enhancing cognitive flexibility. Join us as we navigate through the distractions of modern technology and r...
Passion...Today's Secret to Success
March 26, 2024 16:00 - 12 minutes - 8.95 MBDiscovering what we are fundamentally passionate about is a key to developing tenacity. The more we recognize what drives us, the more we unleash that, the more likely we are to succeed.
Micro Series: Harnessing the Power of Imagination for Success
March 26, 2024 16:00 - 3 minutes - 2.66 MBIn this micro-series episode, we explore the transformative potential of imagination through a real-life example of an athlete striving for Olympic success. By guiding them through a vivid imaginative exercise, envisioning themselves winning the gold medal, their performance drastically improved, leading to Olympic qualification. This powerful demonstration highlights how our imaginative experiences can shape our reality and self-perception. By shifting our mindset and assumptions through im...
Micro Series: The Influence of Imagination on Social Interactions
March 19, 2024 14:00 - 1 minute - 1.4 MBThis micro-series episode explores how our imagination shapes our experiences, particularly in social interactions. Whether meeting a friend, colleague, or stranger, our preconceived notions and anticipations heavily influence the outcome. The power of imagination is always at play, setting the stage for either positive or negative experiences. We discuss how the imagination can either liberate us from constraints or further entrench us within them, depending on how we engage with it. Unders...
A Huge Secret to Success
March 19, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes - 8.33 MBLike working out at the gym, the secret to success in learning or anywhere in life is being tenacious. But how do we develop that?
Bonus Repost: Podcast #29 - Learning to Think More Clearly
March 14, 2024 18:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBDeveloping clear thinking is one of the most important outcomes of school and most of the learning that we engage in. How do we achieve clearer thinking more easily?
Micro Series: Visualizing Victory - Transforming Mindsets Through Imagination
March 12, 2024 14:00 - 2 minutes - 1.86 MBIn this micro-series episode, we explore how our imagination influences our perception and experience, even in seemingly mundane situations like a math class. Our interpretation of concepts like addition and our self-concept as math learners is rooted in imagination. Through examples, we learn how to shift our mindset from negative to positive by harnessing the power of imagination. By understanding the role of imagination in shaping our experiences, we gain greater control over our percepti...
Trigger Dopamine to Get the Success You Desire
March 12, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes - 8.57 MBThese days, many of us have heard something about the importance of dopamine in our brain. We explore with you here, simple but powerful ways to trigger the dopamine we need to get to the outcomes we so want.
Train Your Brain to Succeed
March 05, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes - 8.27 MBYes, we can actually train our brain to produce more success in so many areas of our lives. How do we do it? Listen up...
Micro Series: Crafting Reality - The Influence of Imagination
March 05, 2024 14:00 - 2 minutes - 1.69 MBIn this micro-series episode, we delve into the profound role imagination plays in shaping our lived experiences. Whether envisioning a trip to the beach or any other scenario, our minds construct vivid images laden with emotions and meanings. These mental simulations influence our responses and motivations, guiding our actions and decisions. Through our imagination, we interpret and imbue significance into our encounters, ultimately shaping our subjective realities. Join us as we explore th...
Micro Series: The Power of Daydreaming
February 27, 2024 14:00 - 1 minute - 1.35 MBIn this micro-series episode, we challenge the negative perception surrounding imagination. From a young age, we're often urged to stifle our daydreams and focus on reality. However, dismissing imagination as a mere distraction overlooks its immense potential. While grounding children is important for practical tasks, there's a loss in the widespread suppression of imagination. Rather than viewing imagination and willpower as opposing forces, we discover how they can harmonize to enrich our ...
The Pause That Refreshes
February 27, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes - 8.16 MBStraight out of the research, we learn how important it is to pause in the midst of our day for just minutes in a way that let's just get so much more out of what we're doing. Such a small thing for such big results.
Sleep... Essential for Learning and Memory
February 20, 2024 19:00 - 11 minutes - 8.16 MBSo many of us think we can outrun our need for sleep. Or we assume that we're getting enough and suffer because of it. How do we get deeper sleep and enough of it? With a little understanding, we can get so much more out of our sleep and out of our lives.
Micro Series: Imagination Takes You Everywhere
February 20, 2024 19:00 - 1 minute - 1.03 MBWhile imagination is often thought of as a negative or a distraction, we explain the power and importance of not only allowing yourself to use your imagination, but to actually foster its development. We go much more in-depth into how to develop your imagination in our full 3-part episodes, “Your Imagination is Transformational.”
Bonus Repost: Podcast #12 - Get Time on Your Side
February 15, 2024 18:00 - 27 minutes - 19.3 MBLearning to manage our time effectively is essential to doing well in school, our work and the whole of our lives. Good time management skills is one of the top predictors of success. Here we explore those tools and make sure that we have the know how that we need to use our time to our advantage.
Our Willpower Can Become Inexhaustible
February 13, 2024 15:00 - 12 minutes - 8.43 MBFor some of us, our won't power and our I can't power is what we try and live our lives on. Our willpower when aligned with what we want lights up our lives.
Micro Series: The Power of Daily Decisions
February 13, 2024 15:00 - 58 seconds - 740 KBIn this micro-series episode, we explore the incredible magnitude of daily decisions we make and why they matter more than we think. Join us as we uncover the profound impact of these seemingly small choices on our lives and our learning and how they shape our futures. We go much more in-depth into this topic in our full episode (“Podcast #40 - How Decisions Rule Our Lives”).
Micro Series: Active Learning Develops Empathy and More
February 07, 2024 18:00 - 1 minute - 893 KBActive learning is an incredibly powerful tool that can help us develop empathy and so much more. In this micro-series episode, we explain the benefits of active listening. In our full episode (“Podcast #57 – Become a Powerful Listener”) we talk in more depth about how to develop those listening skills.
Meaning Is Our Ticket to Aliveness
February 06, 2024 16:00 - 10 minutes - 7.16 MBThe meaning that we derive from what we do is all important. Whether it's in our studies or in our work, a life without meaning is empty. How do we build meaning into our lives?
Weekly Micro Boost: An Example of Working Through Negative Beliefs
February 01, 2024 16:00 - 1 minute - 1.09 MBIn this micro-series episode, we walk through an example of working through negative beliefs. These can hold us back from our full potential and have a strong impact on our perceived self-ability to succeed in life. You can listen to the full interview in podcasts #60 and #61 where we help Jessie work through some limiting beliefs.
Get the Right Habits in Place to Win
January 30, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes - 8.35 MBWe're told all kinds of things about what it takes to develop useful habits. Yes, habits can be very helpful if we set them up correctly. Contrary to popular opinion, there are ways to easily develop the habits that we need to succeed.
Being Stuck Is Just the Beginning
January 23, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes - 8.55 MBThere's so many ways to get stuck on our way to the outcomes we want. We lead you through ways here to get unstuck and to get the results that you want. This will help.
Micro Series: The Importance of Properly Fueling Your Body
January 18, 2024 16:00 - 1 minute - 893 KBIt is important to give your body and your brain the best-quality fuel if you want to see the best performance. We explain why this is important in this micro-series episode and provide a much more detailed discussion in our full episode, “Podcast #64 - Amplify Memory to be Better at Learning and at Life.”
Visualization… Another Superpower
January 16, 2024 16:00 - 12 minutes - 8.65 MBAs we develop our ability to better visualize, everything lights up for us. We're better able to learn. We're better able to live passionately the life we want.
Micro Series: The Power of Mini-Breaks
January 11, 2024 13:00 - 1 minute - 1.24 MBWhen you’re studying, it might seem like the way to learn best is to study straight through without any breaks so you have more time with the material. In this micro-series episode, we propose an alternative way of studying that has been shown to increase your ability to retain information.
Openness Leads to Increasing Intelligence
January 09, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes - 8.74 MBToo often we've shut down in some way. As we open back up to learning and engaging, are intelligence actually increases. Here's how to do it.
Micro Series: How Distractions Impact Our Listening and Learning
January 04, 2024 15:00 - 1 minute - 1010 KBWhile we might not think of distractions as significant hindrances to our learning, they have a massive impact on our ability to actively listen and absorb the information given to us. In this micro-series episode, we address why this is important to recognize and find ways to improve when you’re in the classroom.
Overcome Being Stuck in Learning and Life
January 02, 2024 16:00 - 12 minutes - 8.64 MBFeeling stuck? Here are the perspectives and the actions needed to move forward in a more satisfying way.
Micro Series: How to Actively Engage With Your Learning
December 26, 2023 15:00 - 1 minute - 1.04 MBWhy do we need to actively engage with the material we’re trying to learn? In this micro-series episode, we look at why engaging actively as you learn is important rather than passively skimming through material. We also provide strategies on how to actively go through the material to enhance your learning and memory.
Finding Meaning Is Our Ticket to Aliveness
December 26, 2023 14:00 - 12 minutes - 8.51 MBThe title says it all. Find the meaning in what you're learning, and what you're doing and we come so much more alive. Here's exactly how to do that.
Holiday Bonus Repost: Podcast #44 - The Meaning We Give Makes Us Who We Are
December 21, 2023 15:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBHumans are fundamentally meaning makers. When anything significant happens, we give it meaning and then we live from within the cage of meaning that we created. We can do a much better job of this and here's how.
Potent Purpose Is the Powerful Motor that Propels Us
December 19, 2023 15:00 - 12 minutes - 8.96 MBAs we find a clear sense of purpose it's like shifting up to the next higher gear. If you need more passion and what you're doing, this is a sure fire way to get it.
Micro Series: Improving Memory Through Connections to the Future
December 19, 2023 15:00 - 1 minute - 1.03 MBIn this micro-series episode, we explain why connecting the material we learn to its application in the future is important and how doing so will improve our memory.
Exploration and Adventure Leads to Clear Purpose
December 12, 2023 17:00 - 12 minutes - 8.56 MBDiscovering and clarifying your purpose and learning and life can be fun. Break out of our ruts by exploring the possibilities that life has to offer.
Micro Series: How to Make Meaning From Any Class
December 12, 2023 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.03 MBMany of us have sat in classes that seem dull or boring. We have no motivation to pay attention and engage with the material. In this micro-series episode, we talk about the importance of finding the proper motivation to engage with all classes, even when they seem dull, and how to find that motivation.
Bonus Repost: Podcast #38 - Amplify Your Success
December 07, 2023 16:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBWhat if there was a way to become even better and more successful at what you're already doing and with your learning. In this podcast we cover the how-to's of getting exactly those even better outcomes.
Micro Series: We Are What Our Beliefs Tell Us
December 05, 2023 16:00 - 1 minute - 1000 KBWhether we believe we’re stupid or smart will dictate how we behave. Oftentimes, we have beliefs that tell us we’re stupid, and so we believe that, and we see that play out in our lives. But we can change those incorrect beliefs. In this micro-series episode, we share the story of a student we worked with as a powerful example of what can happen when you change your beliefs.
Get on Track by Aligning Your Values
December 05, 2023 16:00 - 11 minutes - 8.12 MBBy knowing and aligning your values you set your purpose on fire. Do this and you can make a giant leap forward.
The Importance of Purpose... The Whys and The Hows
November 27, 2023 21:00 - 11 minutes - 8.18 MBResponding to popular requests, we start a four-part series on how to find your purpose. You don't want to miss out on this one.
Micro Series: Two Types of Listening and How to Improve Each
November 27, 2023 21:00 - 47 seconds - 609 KBIn this micro-series episode, we address the two types of listening that we engage in and why they’re different. In our full episode on listening (“Podcast #57 - Become A Powerful Listener”), we talk about ways to improve both types of listening.
Why Does This Matter?
November 20, 2023 17:00 - 12 minutes - 8.67 MBDeveloping our purpose for learning something, understanding something, being better at something is the fire that ignites our passion. Without this little happens. With it there's little that we can't do. Learn how to activate that purpose with us.
Micro Series: Confidence Leads to Better Outcomes
November 15, 2023 15:00 - 54 seconds - 691 KBIn this micro-series episode, we highlight a key clip from Jessie, a student who used the Learn-to-Learn podcast to improve her test-taking ability for finals. Through the tools we provide in the podcast, she was able to do better than she thought she would on her exams. For the full interview, listen to podcasts #60 and #61.
The Feynman Technique to Dramatically Up Level Our Understanding
November 14, 2023 15:00 - 11 minutes - 7.99 MBProfessor Feynman was one of the greatest physicists of the last century. We explore here together his breakthrough technique that led him to his insights. Now you can do the same.
Micro Series: Don’t Be Forgetful, Change the Brain’s Pattern
November 09, 2023 18:00 - 45 seconds - 585 KBThe brain naturally forgets things quite easily and rapidly. In this micro-series episode, we talk about how often the brain forgets new information. In our full episode related to memory (“Amplify Memory to Be Better at Learning and at Life”), we cover strategies to change the brain’s pattern to make it better at remembering information for longer.