How To Increase Your Learning Capacity

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Your ability to learn is like a muscle.

This learning muscle takes the same things that a regular muscle would to increase in strength.

Just like any other muscle it needs to be strained and needs rest after a hard workout.

To strain any muscle effectively you must give it more weight than you have previously.

If we translate this to learning it means that you have to try harder to learn than before, which does not necessarily mean longer hours, but instead more effort spent on learning.

Often times when we learn we learn the same way.

We read the pages, maybe right down notes, maybe even review the notes and try to incorporate as much as possible into our long-term memory.

For most, this is the same as a casual jog.

Yes, you may be working out, but if you casually jog every single day then it will take a long time for you to actually grow a significant amount of muscles.

Sometimes you have to run to test the limits of your muscles and to increase their capacity.

For learning this means that you invest fully into your learning without any distractions for at least 45 minutes.