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Coaching for Leaders

205: Ten Ways to Learn Faster, with Randy Willhite

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2015

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Randy Willhite: The Burbolators “If people have two weeks to practice, they do less in two weeks than they normally would have in one.” -Randy Willhite Ten ways to learn faster: It’s hard to start, but easier to keep going Memorize first, and then practice You have to practice Schedule time each day to practice You don’t need to master something before you go onto the next thing You don’t have to like something to learn from it Consistency beats clock time Don’t beat yourself up for falling behind Touch the strings Get back on when you fall off the horse You can The Burbolators, Randy's band, on SoundCloud. Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0

Chances are if you're listening to this that you are wanting to learn how to be more effective as a leader with people and many other things in your professional work.

0:10.0

It turns out there are better ways to learn faster on today's show 10 ways to learn faster from a unique perspective

0:18.0

that will get us all thinking on how to develop new skills.

0:21.6

This is coaching for leaders episode 205.

0:25.6

Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. all. Greetings to you from Orange County, California.

0:37.0

This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac.

0:41.7

Yes, you can lead, and this weekly show at the intersection of business

0:46.5

and education will help you to do exactly that. And if you've listened to this show for

0:51.7

any length of time, you know that I am a big believer in learning, learning new things, learning new skills, and that really is the call for all of us as leaders.

1:01.0

If we want to lead an influence, we need to be able to learn new skills and we can

1:06.8

learn how to make education easy but real learning actually isn't easy in fact fact it's a struggle most of the time. And today I'm

1:17.8

bringing a conversation to you that I think will be really helpful to all of us.

1:23.2

It's certainly been something I've been thinking about

1:25.2

over the last three to four months

1:26.9

because I've been working on learning a new skill

1:29.6

and it's not a new skill that I'm good at.

1:31.6

It's one that I have to work hard at and that is learning how to play the guitar. And my guitar instructor, Randy Wilhite and I, were talking just a few weeks ago and I thought that it would be really interesting for us to take a look at learning a new skill like guitar

1:46.6

but more importantly to look at some of the principles that come around with learning something new like guitar, but really are applicable

1:55.4

for just about any skill, and to talk about how we can learn from them in order to become

2:01.0

more effective.

2:02.0

And so I am really thrilled to be able to welcome Randy here to the show.

2:06.1

Randy, welcome to coaching for leaders.

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