Squiggly Shortcut: How To Be a Speed Learner in 5 Minutes

Hey everybody, it is Helen from the Squiggly Careers podcast and you are listening to another one of our squiggly shortcuts where we take about five minutes of your time to talk through an idea or an insight which we think is going to help you in your squiggly career. And today I want to talk about speed learning. Specifically, I have five ideas to talk through in five minutes. It's going to be a challenge on how you can be a better speed learner at work. Before I get started, I just want

to talk about the difference between speed learning and slow learning. And actually I still think slow learning is really important. So let's let's start there. Slow learning for me is when you dive really deep into a topic. You are spending time with that topic, you are considering it from different perspectives, you are questioning what you are learning and it's a really important way.

of acquiring knowledge. But the reality is that takes quite a lot of time and most of us struggle with that at work. So speed learning is perhaps a little bit more surface level. We're not always diving deep, but you accumulate more of it more quickly, more often. And I think it is a reality for most people that we can more easily add speed learning in than we can slow learning.

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