Understand your learning curve

Before Breakfast

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Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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How to stay motivated

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0:00.0	I'm Paul Muldoon, a poet who over the past several years has had the good fortune to record
0:07.9	hours of conversations with one of the world's greatest songwriters, Sir Paul McCartney.
0:14.0	The result is our new podcast, McCartney, A Life in lyrics.
0:20.6	Listen to McCartney, A Life in lyrics on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever
0:28.5	you get your podcasts.
0:33.7	Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeart radio.
0:39.3	Good morning.
0:41.0	This is Laura.
0:42.9	Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.
0:46.1	Today's tip is that learning is not a linear process.
0:51.3	With many skills, there is a long, slow start before a rapid acceleration.
0:58.3	As you learn anything new, you have to hang on for that early climb.
1:05.0	Today's tip, like another one this week, comes from Whitney Johnson's new book, Smart
1:09.8	Growth.
1:11.3	In this book, Whitney explores how people learn and change and achieve their goals.
1:18.3	One of her key images is the S-curve.
1:21.5	Now don't think of an S like you type a capital S or write one with the two curves sitting
1:26.8	on top of each other.
1:28.8	Instead, imagine it as a bit more stretched out and turned a bit on its side.
1:34.3	The slope of the first stretch is low, but then there is a point of acceleration where
1:39.8	the slope increases until it levels out at some other point.
1:45.0	Whitney tells us that this S-curve represents how we learn.
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