What's up everyone? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew.

Welcome back to Founder's Journal, My Personal Audio Diary, where I give you the business builder,

the tools you need to think better in order to build better, whether that's building a business,

a team, or a new product. So this past weekend, I went for a long drive and on that drive,

I was reflecting on my journey in media. And one thing that I thought about was how I went from

being a total novice in the media space, when I first started with Morning Brew in 2015,

to being an expert within a few years. And it made me think about just learning anything

new broadly and what the process is that I've gone through in the past to go down the rabbit hole

and learn something new. And I think it's really important to think about it and I think it's

something we often don't think about in the rush of life. It's this idea that in a world of

information abundance and limited time, it's more important than ever to understand how to go

about learning in an efficient and effective way. And so my goal for this episode is I'm going to

map out my process for going down a rabbit hole and a process that you can use for learning

anything new in your career or your personal life. So let's hop into it. I think about the process

of learning like the process of test taking in college. I fundamentally believe there are two types

of students. You have the memorizer and you have the understander. The memorizer is the student

who studies past exams and their answers. And the understander is the student who studies the

textbook reflects on the principles from reading that textbook. And so then no matter what test is

put in front of them, whether it's similar or dissimilar from past exams, their mind can adapt

to the challenge because they understand things at a foundational level. That is the foundation

that I am trying to create through this process of learning that I've gone through and that I want

you to learn from. High quality learning is about being an understander rather than a memorizer.

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