How to Preserve Your Learning

Fantastic! You've just learned something new.

The next step is to preserve it. So, here's what you do:

FIRST: Preserve your learning by evaluating it.

After all, we learn not from our experiences but from intelligent reflection upon those experiences.

So, ask yourself these questions:

1. Does this statement give me any insight about myself?
2. How can the basic concept be applied to different areas?
3. How does this fit into my theory of the universe?
4. What did I just learn from this experience?
5. What else is like this?
6. What went right/wrong/perfectly about what just happened?

SECOND: Preserve your learning by writing it down.

After all, if you don't write it down, it never happened.

So, ask yourself these questions:

1. How can I blog about this?
2. How can I make writing a part of this?
3. What are the various ways I can recycle this intellectual property?
4. What journal does this go into?
5. What folder does this go into?
6. What list can I immediately make this into?

THIRD: Preserve your learning by teaching it to others.

After all, you learn something most effectively the moment you teach it to someone else.

So, ask yourself these questions:

1. How can I teach this to others?
2. If everyone did exactly what I said, what would their world look like?
3. Now that I've written about this, what else does this make possible?
4. Through which medium can I best teach this idea to others?
5. What's the Universal Human Emotion?
6. Who else needs to know about this?

FINALLY: Preserve your learning by leveraging it.

After all, killing two stones with one bird is always the best business practice.

So, ask yourself these questions:

1. How can I make this last forever?
2. How can I use this to add more value to myself?
3. How can this mistake quickly be made into something good?
4. How many different ways can I leverage this?
5. What else can be made from this?
6. Where can I use this?

REMEMBER: Evaluate. Write. Teach. Leverage.

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