#568 Why Slowing Down Makes You a Better Learner

Hi, I'm Sarah and in this squiggly shortcut I'm going to talk about how to learn slowly. Now I do realize the irony of doing a shortcut about slow learning, but hopefully this will help you to get started. Now the first thing to say is slow learning and fast learning, you might have seen my co-founder Helen talk about fast learning, are not contradictory. They are complementary. So these are not two things that are competing with each other.

It's just appreciating where sometimes we might need to be more tortoise than more hare in our approach. And the focus here really is on direction for our learning rather than destination. You know, sometimes we're all tempted to see learning as something to tick off our to-do list. I know I've definitely been guilty of that in the past. And this is more about the process of learning.

And there is a brilliant website and it's also beautiful. I don't know how often we say that about websites called slowlearning.com. And if you scroll down onto the website, they give you lots of questions and reflections to get you started. And you can download that and then download this really beautiful book that gives you lots of inspiration.

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