Have you ever wanted to learn better and faster? Is there a language you wish you could learn? A thing you wish you could just do if you knew how to learn better?  Wouldn’t your life be easier if you could learn better?

Well today I want to talk to you about the world class learner and how we can model him. For that I’ll be talking about the best learners on the planet: babies.

Everyone is born a baby and everyone is an amazing learner when they’re born. The issue is that we’re often robbed of this amazing gift by people who call themselves adults, conform to societal standards of mediocrity and think themselves superior to these helpless young blobs of flesh.

Learning is instinct.

When you are born you are in the ideal conditions to be a learner. You leverage the power of necessity. Either you learn or you die. Babies don’t even have a choice of whether or not to learn. They just learn. And they learn faster than anyone because of this. You never hear them complain. They persevere in ways that can seem superhuman to modern day adults. They don’t have a choice of whether they have to learn to walk, or talk, or dress or live. They just learn it. And they learn by doing. By experimenting and trying new things all the time. Thankfully babies don’t think about what they’re doing. It’s an instinct. It is a deep seated thing in our wiring. It’s what makes us humans. Our adaptability and malleability at birth. Our neuroplasticity. We can literally learn anything.

Now for you, reading this right now, learning is also an instinct. Some of us have simply lost touch of this little untold fact. Your job is to get in touch with that primal instinct.

Babies and young children are the most lively and curious bundles of energy you will ever find. They just suck it all in. They absorb everything like a sponge. They are unstoppable learners. They are shameless. There self-esteem is through the roof and they persevere. This can be incredibly tiring for the unaccustomed adult, who then tell you to slow down, not do this, stop talking, and do what everybody else is doing.

Now consider the fact that that was once you !

Consider that you have the potential to learn anything you set your mind to. Babies don’t know the meaning of the words success and failure. They just know to follow their instinct and learn.

These two words, success and failure are perhaps two of the most misunderstood words of our language. They are both powerful and devastatingly dangerous when non properly handled. You can learn more about this here.

So if you want to learn faster and more effectively you have to model world class learners.

You have to model babies. 

Be curious. Try things. Do a lot of things. Mess up a lot. Learn. Adapt. Change. Don’t complain. Figure it out. Go on instinct. Be playful. Don’t have an ego. Do what “adults” would consider as humiliating. Don’t take yourself so seriously. Have fun. Adopt the mindset of a learner. Have a growth mindset.

You were once a baby and did all this without thinking. You have already done this once. You can do it again. You are a born learner and you can learn anything you want. So get in touch with the baby inside you. That is the power inside everyone.

Are you going to let your power stay dormant? Or are you going to choose to wake up the learner inside you?

Have fun and experiment.

Never Stop Growing