How to Self-Learn Anything (Self-Learning Mastery)

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Different people learn differently. Here’s how to create a learning system that’s right for you.

Author, entrepreneur, and motivational speaker, Jim Rohn said, “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”

Rohn was born into a poor family, grew up on a farm, was a millionaire by 30, lost it all at 33, and regained it again.

How did he do this? Rohn credits his lifelong commitment to improvement through self-learning.

Rohn only did a year of college before dropping out, frustrated that he wasn’t learning what he wanted. It’s a common complaint leveled against the formal education system. Schools don’t teach people what’s important.

The Public School Review (an organization that profiles and ranks US public schools) says one of the biggest challenges with the system is an obsession with standardized testing. Schools emphasize the teach-to-the-test approach while reducing focus on non-tested subjects. Non-tested subjects would include things like creativity and adaptability, necessary qualities for any self-learner.

After 18 years of standard education, you may think that you could acquire new skills the way you did there. Unfortunately, you may be mistaken.

That’s because standard education taught you how to pass tests. But it didn’t teach you how to think.