Hi, it's Helen from the Squiggly Careers podcast. And before you listen to today's episode, I just

want to let you know about some news that Sarah and I are very excited about. And that is that our new book,

Learn Like a Lobster, is ready to pre-order now. We really care about everybody learning and growing at work,

but we know it is not easy to do. And so we're borrowing some brilliance from lobsters to help you to do it.

The book takes three inspiring and surprising abilities of lobsters in terms of how they grow

and applies it to how we can learn at work. So if you want some inspiration and you need some

practical insights to support your learning, growth and development. This is the book for you.

And if you pre-order now and send your pre-order to hello at learn like a lobster.com,

you can join the lobster library where we have a community of lobster learners ready for you to learn with,

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Now let's get on to today's episode. Hey everybody. It is Helen from the Squiggly Chris podcast and you are listening to another one of our squiggly shortcuts where we take about five minutes

of your time

to talk through an idea or an insight, which we think is going to help you in your squiggly

career. And today, I want to talk about speed learning. Specifically, I have five ideas to talk

through in five minutes. It's going to be a challenge on how you can be a better speed learner at work.

Before. on how you can be a better speed learner at work. Before I get started, I just want to talk about the difference between speed learning and

slow learning. And actually, I still think slow learning is really important. So let's

start there. Slow learning, for me, is when you dive really deep into a topic. You are spending time

with that topic. You are considering it from different perspectives. You are questioning what you

are learning. And it's a really important way of acquiring knowledge. But the reality is that

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