185. The Three Things That Change How You Learn Anything

About this episode

Lily Jones discusses three key ideas that can transform the way you approach learning.

I have spent decades — decades — studying how people learn. I've read the research, I've built the frameworks, I'm literally getting a graduate degree in learning design from Johns Hopkins right now. And I still catch myself thinking: I need to know more before I'm ready to start. Ironic, right? Someone who studies learning... afraid to learn out loud. But here's what's wild: that fear? That "not ready yet" feeling? It turns out it's not a personal flaw. It's just... how learning actually works. And once I understood that, everything changed. So today I want to take you inside the framework we've built at Educator Forever — our approach to learning — and specifically, I want to talk about three ideas that I think will shift the way you think about learning anything. For all links and resources mentioned in this episode, head to the show notes: https://www.educatorforever.com/episode185 .

People in this episode

Host: Lily Jones

Topics covered

• learning
• education
• self-improvement
• frameworks
• personal development

Keywords

• learning design
• education
• self-improvement
• frameworks
• fear of learning

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Johns Hopkins

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