I was 36 years old when I realized I was learning all wrong

I had always assumed that learning was a passive activity.

Read a book > learn a concept.

Watch a video > learn a concept.

For example, thinking back at my younger years in school, I had always thought that reading the text was the learning part. That the learning happened at the reading or passive phase. I had always wondered why I wasn't able to have concepts stick, and even though I would read things over and over again I wasn't able to learn anything. This was frustrating. I started telling myself I had a bad memory and that I wasn't very smart. Street smart - sure, but book smart - no.

It wasn't until I had achieved my professional goals that I began to wonder what to do next. To figure that out , I needed to learn about myself and my interests. Naturally, I began reading... but was I really learning? I needed to learn how to learn. As I read the Self-Learning Blueprint the concept hit me. Bam! I had been learning all wrong.

Learning didn't happen at the reading or absorption stage but rather at the teaching stage. Only when you teach a concept, and teach it in your own words, only then do you learn.

That is why I'm here. I want to learn. Therefore I have to teach. These writings are for myself to teach myself concepts I want to learn.