3078: If It's Important, Learn It Repeatedly by David Cain of Raptitude on Personal Development and Self Improvement

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🗓️ 10 August 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3078: David Cain reveals why truly important lessons often have to be learned over and over again before they become second nature. He explores how our deepest insights fade unless revisited deliberately, and offers a compassionate reminder that self-reinforcement, not perfection, is the path to growth. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.raptitude.com/2018/01/if-its-important-learn-it-repeatedly/ Quotes to ponder: "If something is important to you, then the fact that you keep forgetting it doesn’t make it less important. It makes it more important." "Learning, in the practical sense, is not a binary switch we flip, but a direction we face and keep facing." "The moments when you realize you've forgotten a vital principle aren't failures, they are the principle asserting itself again." Episode references: The War of Art: https://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Steven-Pressfield/dp/1936891026 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Health Daily. If it's important, learn it repeatedly by David Cain of raptitude.com,
0:08.1	and I'm Dr. Neal. Hey there, welcome to another Sunday bonus episode. This is where I like to share
0:14.1	an episode from another podcast in our network, usually overlapping a bit with what we talk about here.
0:19.9	And today's comes from my brother's podcast, Optimal Living Daily.
0:24.0	You can find that podcast wherever you're hearing this,
0:26.7	and be sure to hit the subscribe or follow button to get new episodes every day.
0:31.5	And we thank you in advance for doing that.
0:33.9	And I'm going to keep this nice and short,
0:35.6	so here's my brother, Justin Justin as we optimize your life.
0:42.8	If it's important, learn it repeatedly by David Kane of Raptitude.com.
0:49.0	A little more than a year ago, a friend took me for lunch in downtown Toronto, and we talked mostly
0:54.0	about what we'd
0:54.8	been reading. Immediately afterwards, she marched me to a nearby bookstore and insisted I buy
1:00.0	Cal Newport's Deep Work. She was the second person that week to describe it to me as potentially
1:05.0	life-changing, so I bought it with great enthusiasm. Later that day, I sat reading it in a tea shop for two hours,
1:12.2	riveted by the possibilities of working in the uncompromising, undistracted way Newport described.
1:18.1	I've had that feeling many times while reading nonfiction books, the hot light bulb effect
1:22.4	of being aware you're reading the right ideas at the right moment in your life.
1:27.2	I'd stopped in Toronto on the way
1:28.6	home from an inspiring Chautauqua experience in Ecuador, the trip that had culminated in an
1:33.2	unforgettable moving group discussion during which each of us declared heartfelt resolutions about
1:38.0	how we wanted to live the rest of our lives. I was determined to return to work with unprecedented
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