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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

395: How to Learn Faster with Andrew Geant of WyzAnt

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 29 January 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

WyzAnt CEO and Founder Drew Geant discusses the best and worst ways to learn, particularly when engaging a tutor one-on-one.


You’ll Learn:

1) The most in-demand hard and soft skills

2) When you should consider engaging in one-on-one lessons

3) How to give and receive good feedback


About Andrew

Andrew Geant is co-founder and CEO of WyzAnt, which brings the proven impact of personalized learning to all learners via the largest tutoring marketplace and community. WyzAnt has one of 75,000 tutors available within 10 miles of 97% of the US population offering their services in-person and online. Drew co-founded WyzAnt in 2005 with his Princeton classmate, Mike Weishuhn. Today, WyzAnt has 80 employees in offices in Chicago and San Francisco. With now over 2 million tutors and students that have used the platform, the company was bootstrapped with just $10,000 and has been cash flow positive since inception.

 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McChitis.

0:16.0

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode

0:21.0

395 with Andrew Gant from Wise wise and I think you'll dig this

0:25.0

chat with Drew because he's laying down how you can learn best and fastest with some

0:30.7

surprising resources you might not have known existed until today.

0:34.5

So you'll learn one, the most in-demand hard soft skills.

0:37.6

Two, when you should consider engaging in one-on-one lessons and three, how to give and

0:42.4

receive good feedback.

0:44.0

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Adams we've

0:47.2

referenced it's over at awesome at your job.com slash f-395 and while at

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