Learning

One of the best ways to master a subject is by teaching others about it.

Explaining something to someone who has never heard about it requires clarity in your thoughts and ensures that you know what you’re talking about. It’s also a great way for you to verify your level of knowledge. Simply said, if the person you’re talking with can easily understand what you’re talking about, that means you’ve been able to deconstruct your message in a way that was easy to understand and transmit to other people, and you can’t do that without first knowing the subject yourself. I like to think that it doesn’t matter how complex a subject is, you can always deconstruct it in a way that it’s possible to teach it to others…. Read more

The only way to master a subject is by practicing it enough. Reading a book is fine, but it’s only when you try what you read in real situations that long term memory and experience are built. Without practicing you only have theory, which is easy to forget and generally not very useful in real life. Depending on your field, there are many ways you can practice what you learn. For example a designer… Read more

Learning a new language is certainly challenging, but it is up to you to make it easy or difficult. Although some languages like Chinese and Korean are harder to learn than others, it all depends on your learning approach and how passionate you are about the language.

In this article, I’m going to show you how I could learn a new language in 90 days by using particular techniques that make the learning process easier, more effective and enjoyable…. Read more

You may or may not know that I’m from Italy, and that english is not my native tongue. Here in Italy, we learn some basic english at school, but the level is so low that you’d probably have trouble talking in english with someone who just graduated. I personally learned a bit of english myself because I needed to talk with some americans who lived here, or for doing my programming work. But my level… Read more

One thing that fascinates me is performing mental math. Being able to quickly perform additions, subtraction, multiplications etc is a good way to impress your friends. The problem is, I’m not a math genius, and I don’t know much behind simple arithmetic.

If you’re anything like me, but you’d still like to learn some basic math tricks, I hope you’ll find this list useful…. Read more

Since I’m giving away all of my books on personal development, I figured out that I’d better reread some of them before I do. The only problem is that there are quite a few of them, and time is limited. I’m not a fan of speed reading, but in this case it’s the only option available. Still, speed reading per see without taking notes is useless, as I would forget everything one hour after. So I thought… Read more

Update: the competition is over. Congratulations to all the winners. Important: Even if someone else has already shown interest for a book, you can still choose it. Indeed I’ll pick a random winner for every book at the end of the contest. Guess what happens when you read 1 book per week? Well, you end up with a lot of books. In the last two years I’ve read a lot of books, books that have quickly… Read more

Mind maps are one of the best tools available for learning new topics and brainstorming ideas. You can learn in a few minutes what would have taken you hours through traditional studying systems. I’ve successfully used mind maps for studying advanced programming topics, getting articles ideas, and everyday things like making the grocery list. Even this article was sketched using a mind map.

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I Recently came across a quote from a book. I like great quotes because they are often inspirational and life changing. The book in question is “How to read a book”, and the quote is:

“Whenever you read something you don’t understand, that’s the only chance you’re ever given to recognize the opportunity to learn something new.”

That quote completely changed the way I now approach every book.… Read more

Brain Rules is a book written by John Medina where he goes through 12 principles called brain rules describing how our brain works and how to improve our life based on those principles. John is a molecular biologist who spent his whole life studying how the brain works, and in the book he shares what scientists know for sure about the human brain.

Brain Rules

In this article I want to share five powerful… Read more