Second Cup: Understand your learning curve

Before Breakfast

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Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 23 July 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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How to stay motivated

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0:00.0	In 1995, Detective Tony Richardson was trying to figure out who killed a fellow officer.
0:11.5	The case comes down to who is believed and who is ignored.
0:15.8	Oh my goodness, we did connect to Innocent Man.
0:19.1	I'm Beth Shelburn from Lava for Good Podcasts.
0:22.6	This is Ear Witness.
0:24.9	Welcome to Ear Witness on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:35.8	Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
0:41.5	Good morning.
0:43.2	This is Laura.
0:45.2	Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.
0:48.2	Today's tip is that learning is not a linear process.
0:53.4	With many skills, there is a long, slow start before a rapid acceleration.
1:00.4	As you learn anything new, you have to hang on for that early climb.
1:07.0	Today's tip, like another one this week, comes from Whitney Johnson's new book Smart Growth.
1:13.4	In this book, Whitney explores how people learn and change and achieve their goals.
1:20.5	One of her key images is the S-curve.
1:23.7	Now don't think of an S like you type a capital S or write one with the two curves sitting
1:29.0	on top of each other.
1:30.9	Instead, imagine it as a bit more stretched out and turned a bit on its side.
1:36.5	The slope of the first stretch is low.
1:39.0	But then there is a point of acceleration where the slope increases until it levels out
1:44.8	at some other point.
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