Learn-To-Learn
We are a team with over 40 years of experience in coaching, educating, and supporting others to become better learners. Our passion is to freely support our fellow humans in discovering and expressing their best qualities to the highest degree. We are not looking for donations, sales, or any other outside form of support. We are simply doing our best to get people to participate in recognizing all that is possible for them to learn and sharing with them in ways to bring that about. Our belief is that the best way to do that is to give people the tools, perspectives, and motivation to learn how to more effectively learn in each and every area of their life.
Episodes
Rewrite the Patterns That Keep Repeating
What if the same limiting pattern has been showing up in school, work, relationships, or other parts of your life for years? This micro episode explores how expectations can shape the way we enter situations and sometimes help create the outcomes we fear. By imagining those moments differently, we can begin to build a new expectation of what is possible.
It's All About Perspective part 3
How do we use other people's insights and perspectives to expand our own? How do we increase empathy and collaboration in a way that leads to greater success for everybody. Let's learn to use all the resources around us.
Walk the 360
When something goes badly, our first interpretation usually is not the whole picture. This micro episode introduces the idea of “walking the 360,” which means looking at an experience from multiple perspectives, imagining how it could have gone better, and mentally rehearsing a different response. It is a practical way to learn from mistakes instead of simply reliving them.
It's All About Perspective part 2
Every time we create a new angle vision, we create new possible solutions. And those solutions lead us to the outcomes that we've been seeking but we're hidden by the limits we had on our view. And how do we do that?
The Story You Tell Yourself Matters
How we see ourselves can affect how we handle difficulty before we even realize it. This micro episode looks at the difference between meeting challenges with a sense of capability and expecting things to go wrong. Sometimes the obstacle is not a lack of ability, but the filter we are looking through.
It's All About Perspective part 1
If we only have one perspective, one point of view on something we are living under severe limits. As we expand our perspectives, our capacity to learn and to succeed dramatically increases. How do we do that? Join us.
What Do We Do With What We’ve Got?
Our circumstances matter, but they don’t tell the whole story. This clip explores how people can respond very differently to what they’ve been given—and why that response can shape fulfillment, resilience, and direction. It’s a reflection on making the most of what’s actually in front of us.
Becoming a Better Learner by Overcoming Anxiety part 10
How do we make peace with uncertainty? We are ongoingly living in a world of uncertainty, of not knowing. How do we deal with the gap between where you are today and where you're trying to go, between what you want and whether you'll get it, between who you are now and who you're trying to become.
Becoming a Better Learner by Overcoming Anxiety part 9
Our bodies are constantly signaling us and letting us know how we are doing. How do we tune into those signals and how do we use them to become our best. Particularly how do we deal with the anxiety signals that we're getting.
Becoming a Better Learner by Overcoming Anxiety part 8
Here we explore how to learn to be a better leader by overcoming anxiety. How do we deal with the constant scrutiny and decision making? We are called to be leaders in so many areas of our life. How do we do it the best possible.
Becoming a Better Learner by Overcoming Anxiety part 7
Let's talk about the perfectionism trap. So many of us want to get things just right and of course that is extremely challenging. Let's talk about how we make this right.
Becoming a Better Learner by Overcoming Anxiety part 6
So often our anxiety particularly gets turned up when we're in an exam room or a work meeting or when we have to present. What drives this and how do we overcome that?
Becoming a Better Learner by Overcoming Anxiety part 5
Anxiety is often built around the question, what if? And that what if can turn into a loop that dials up the anxiety. How do we change this?
Micro Series: Win in Your Imagination
Athletes who miss a shot are trained to replay it in their mind until they can see themselves making it, because the brain barely distinguishes between an outcome it vividly imagines and one it actually lives. This micro episode takes that tool out of the gym and helps you use it in rest of your life. If you get to write the ending yourself, why would you ever let yourself lose?
Becoming a Better Learner by Overcoming Anxiety part 4
The purpose of anxiety is to prepare us to do something. Too little or too much causes problems. How do we turn this arousal into something that we can use and makes us better.
Becoming a Better Learner by Overcoming Anxiety part 3
Anxiety has a different signature in each of us. And understanding our own signature, our own pattern and being able to name it gives us the power to begin to change it.
Micro Series: Feel the Outcome Before You Start
Stepping into the feeling of success before beginning can make focus easier and results feel inevitable.
Becoming a Better Learner by Overcoming Anxiety part 2
Anxiety is an invisible tax on almost everything we do. We have a limited amount of working memory and cognitive function in any given moment. Anxiety taxes that and diminishes our capacity. We Begin exploring how this works and how to overcome it.
Micro Series: Create a Mental “Bubble” for Focus
Top performers often imagine a boundary around themselves that blocks out distractions and sharpens attention.
Becoming a Better Learner by Overcoming Anxiety part 1
What anxiety actually is and what it is not and why is it that your brain isn't actually broken if you have anxiety. We get to the heart of all this.
Micro Series: Flow Requires Tunnel Vision
Deep focus often looks like narrowing your attention until everything else fades away.
AI as Competitive Advantage… Don’t Outsource the Part That Makes You Valuable p4:
This episode highlights the highest and most undervalued use of AI: as a simulator to build judgment, which is the ability to choose the right move in messy situations with incomplete information. Since judgment comes from experience and 'reps,' AI can function as an 'experience generator' by running realistic scenarios and providing feedback. The goal is to train 'moves&a
Micro Series: Move the Voice, Change Your State
Shifting your internal voice can reduce stress and make it much easier to enter flow.
AI as Competitive Advantage… Don’t Outsource the Part That Makes You Valuable p3:
This episode argues against letting AI write from scratch, because writing is a primary way human beings discover what they actually believe, and outsourcing it can lead to losing contact with your own cognitive voice. To gain the benefits, the best method is to draft your own version first, then use AI as an editor to pressure-test and refine the thinking's structure, rather than just the pr
Micro Series: Why That Voice Matters
The position of your internal voice isn’t random—it influences your emotional state and ability to focus.
AI as Competitive Advantage… Don’t Outsource the Part That Makes You Valuable p2:
This episode focuses on using AI as a tutor, which is one of the most powerful learning technologies for gaining a competitive advantage. The key is to avoid the mistake of confusing consuming a clear explanation with actual learning, which only happens when you can produce the skill.
Micro Series: Where Is That Voice Coming From?
Your inner voice has a “location”—and understanding where it sits can change how it affects you.
AI as Competitive Advantage… Don’t Outsource the Part That Makes You Valuable p1
This episode cuts through the noise about AI to address the urgent question of how to use it to increase capacity rather than replacing it. It introduces the critical distinction between using AI as Autopilot—which produces the finished thing but outsources core thinking—and using it as an Amplifier, which forces you to think sharper and compounds your ability over time.
Micro Series: The Real Reason You Can’t Focus
Internal chatter and self-criticism are one of the biggest barriers to entering a flow state.
The Question That Changes Everything part 5
Most people hit a wall because of the limiting beliefs they hold about their own ability to learn. This episode provides four practical, actionable techniques to help you identify those mental roadblocks and change them for good. Turn self-doubt into a powerful engine for lifelong mastery.
Micro Series: One Task, One Goal
Flow requires focus. Trying to juggle multiple tasks at once makes it nearly impossible to fully engage.
The Question That Changes Everything part 4
Can simply changing what you imagine actually change your learning results? We share real-world evidence and listener stories proving that transforming your internal world leads to immediate, measurable external success. Get the proof you need that your imagination is the key to unlocking new learning outcomes.
Micro Series: The Goldilocks Rule of Flow
Why tasks need to be just the right level of difficulty – challenging enough to engage you, but not so hard that they overwhelm you.
The Question That Changes Everything part 3
Every single piece of information you take in is filtered through the invisible lens of your imagination. This episode dives into the powerful, hidden ways your mind processes and decides what knowledge to keep. Learn how to consciously tune this filter to make every learning moment effortless and stickier.
Micro Series: Can Music Help You Focus?
For some people, music enhances flow. For others, it’s a distraction. The difference comes down to how your brain responds.
The Question That Changes Everything part 2
Are you tired of reading things that just don't stick? Meet Sarah, a smart manager who couldn't grasp blockchain until one simple question reframed her entire way of learning. Discover the foundational question that unlocks immediate understanding and transforms your imagination into the ultimate learning tool.
Micro Series: Clear Your Mind and Pick Your Time
Flow gets easier when you reduce mental clutter and work during your peak energy hours.
The Question That Changes Everything part 1
There is a question that the best learners through history ask and continue to ask. This sets them up to understand the underlying patterns that our world is based in. And with that it sets us up to so much more easily learn and see into the nature of things.
Micro Series: Remove Distractions to Enter Flow
The most important step to getting into flow: protecting your attention and eliminating external interruptions.
Living from the Heart of Goals part 4
We delve into how to take your learning goals and turn them into a lifelong learning practice. This is essential for our long-term success in so many ways.
Micro Series: Flow Is Where Happiness Lives
Why the most meaningful and enjoyable moments in life come from being deeply challenged and fully engaged.
Living from the Heart of Goals part 3
Today we're going to take the goals that we have discovered for ourselves and turn them into reality. We are going to create a personal learning system that works for you.
Micro Series: You’ve Been in Flow Before
Even if you don’t think you’ve experienced flow, chances are you have, you just didn’t label it at the time.
Living from the Heart of Goals part 2
We take this exploration of goals further. We want to discover and uncover your authentic learning goals so that you get the most alignment with what is most important to you. This leads to motivation and success.
Micro Series: Remember Your Flow Moments
The key to accessing flow again is recognizing when you’ve already experienced it, and learning from those moments.
Living from the Heart of Goals part 1
We begin this series with understanding the three levels of goals and how to align them.
Micro Series: Why Flow Feels So Good
Flow isn’t just productivity. I’s one of the most energizing and fulfilling states you can experience.
The Neuroscience of Handwriting
Neuroscience has discovered that actually writing things by hand dramatically changes and improves how we learn and how our brain develops. We explore here how to make that work for you.
Micro Series: What Is a Flow State?
What it really means to be “in the zone,” a state where focus is effortless, time disappears, and you’re fully absorbed in what you’re doing.
The Learning Hack Hidden in Brain Science
Some of the best insights we have into learning have been discovered accidentally. Find out about what we now know about this simple yet very powerful method and its basis in science.
Micro Series: Generosity Beyond the Divide
Giving money or time is the easy part of generosity. The harder version requires seeing value in people actively opposing you, especially when the culture around you is screaming that they're the enemy. This episode challenges the polarized view dominating most conversations right now and asks what happens when you look past someone's terrible behavior to something deeper. It's not
The Six Secrets to Learning Anything
Neuroscience has dug into what are the best learning strategies. What they have found are six approaches that consistently work best. We cover those here and how to use them. This will make learning so much easier.
Micro Series: What Successful People Keep Returning To
Successful people keep circling back to gratitude, not as a feel-good exercise but as a strategic practice that literally rewires how their brains work. Studies confirm what they've discovered through experience: thankfulness for what actually shows up changes your capacity to see possibilities in every situation, even terrible ones. This episode explores why gratitude isn't just positiv
The Active Mind... Why Reading Builds Brains and not just Knowledge part 4
Powerful ways to use reading to actually build new capacities and actual pathways in our brain.
Micro Series: The Holding Back Tax
Fear of getting hurt in a relationship seems protective until you realize holding back guarantees the very pain you're trying to avoid. The relationship sours from your distance, and you end up more wounded than if you'd risked everything from the start. This episode examines the paradox of self-protection and why the alternative to bravery isn't safety but a slow drift into disappo
The Active Mind... Why Reading Builds Brains and not just Knowledge part 3
Becoming an active reader is one of the most powerful ways to literally develop our brain.
Micro Series: You'll Get Up Again
Bravery isn't about pretending you can't be hurt or that failure doesn't sting. You absolutely can be damaged, disappointed, and set back hard. But there's a perspective that sits above all of that, one that recognizes something in you persists regardless of outcome. This episode explores what it means to be invincible in the truest sense: not immune to pain, but bigger than an
Learn to be a Leader part 6
One of the fundamental marks of a great leader is someone who develops others as leaders.
Micro Series: Optimism as an Operating System
Hoping things can get better sounds naïve until you watch what happens over time. People who maintain optimism don't win every hand, and they face plenty of disappointments. But something about that forward-looking stance changes the entire game. This episode explores why believing improvement is possible matters more than whether you can prove it in advance. Optimism isn't about denying
Learn to be a Leader part 5
How do we make decisions when we're dealing with uncertainty. This is one of the Crux points for a real leader.
Micro Series: The Mask You Didn't Know You Were Wearing
You can get through most situations with a polished performance, saying the right things and showing the acceptable face. It works, technically. But something essential gets lost in that transaction, something about connection that runs deeper than social success. This episode examines the attitude of sincerity and why showing up genuinely matters more than most people admit. Beneath the rugged in
Learn to be a Leader part 4
If we want to lead we have to build trust and through that influence. We dive deeply into the hows....
Micro Series: The Two Parts of Forgiving
Most people think forgiveness is about letting someone off the hook or being noble. But the word itself reveals something different when you break it apart. Forgiving has two pieces, and the first one has nothing to do with anyone else. This episode explores what you're actually giving when you forgive, especially when you direct it at yourself after a failure. The teacher might have written
Learn to be a Leader part 3
Learn how to develop and communicate our vision at the heart of our leadership. How to take your dream and make it real with others.
Micro Series: It Shouldn't Be Like This
That phrase runs through your head constantly when things go wrong. The test was unfair, the situation was impossible, life dealt you a bad hand. It feels righteous to think this way, like you're standing up for yourself. But what if that attitude is the very thing locking you in place? This episode starts with the most fundamental attitude shift required for anything else to work: accepting
Learn to be a Leader part 2
We learn to have more emotional intelligence in our leadership and in our learning. We develop the sophisticated set of capabilities needed to navigate The complex human dynamics that are at the heart of leadership.
Micro Series: Building Your Attitude Arsenal
You've watched someone else breeze through what broke you. You've handled the same situation differently after some years passed. By now, the point is clear: attitude changes everything, and you get to choose it. But choice without options is meaningless. This episode shifts from why attitude matters to which specific attitudes deserve space in your mental toolkit. Not every outlook serv
Learn to be a Leader part 1
Explore with us the intimate relationship between being a leader and being a learner. Together we become better at both.
Micro Series: Your Attitude Archive
Your memory holds the evidence you need, sorted into two distinct categories. The moments when everything fell apart and the moments when everything clicked. This episode guides you through a specific excavation of both, asking you to notice not just what happened but what you were thinking in the background before, during, and after. The patterns hiding in those memories reveal something crucial
Mastering Goals for Learning Success part 4
We share here the four cycles of mastering motivation that keep us moving forward when the initial excitement wears off. This is essential for long-term success.
Micro Series: The Hundred Times Rule
Changing your attitude sounds like a quick mental flip, but the reality is messier. That defeating outlook didn't appear overnight, and it won't disappear with a single decision. This episode confronts the repetition required to overwrite deeply grooved patterns and asks a pointed question: if you've already done the work to cement a negative attitude through countless repetitions,
Mastering Goals for Learning Success part 3
How do we maintain and develop further the inspiration that keeps us moving forward in fulfilling our goals. How do we overcome the things that so often hold us back.
Micro Series: Background Noise
You might handle a challenge confidently in the moment while a quiet voice whispers that eventual defeat is inevitable. That contradiction matters more than most people realize. This episode explores the difference between your immediate reaction and the deeper attitude running silently beneath it, the one that shapes everything without announcing itself. Noticing these hidden patterns is step one
Mastering Goals for Learning Success part 2
To set effective goals, we have to uncover and discover what are essential and most important yearnings and goals actually are. We take the time here to help you develop that capacity.
Micro Series: The Rabbit Hole Choice
Failure, shortcomings, and things going wrong aren't optional in life. They show up whether you invite them or not. What is optional is the rabbit hole you choose afterward. One path spirals into defeat and self-judgment, while the other transforms setbacks into fuel for what comes next. This episode reveals why the difference between these two paths isn't about positive thinking or moti
Mastering Goals for Learning Success part 1
Here we begin a new series delving into how to fundamentally master developing and setting our goals in ways that ensure success.
Micro Series: Mastering the Unmasterable
Once you know the two constants you can control, the obvious next question emerges: how do you actually choose them? Selecting where to focus and what attitude to bring sounds deceptively simple, almost too obvious to matter. But there's a massive gap between understanding this principle and consistently living it. This episode examines why some attitudes are worth adopting while others sabot
The Active Mind Why Reading Builds Brains and Not Just Knowledge part 2
We continue our exploration of the fundamental importance of reading in building and organizing our brains and our mind in ways that ensure success.
Micro Series: The Only Two Things
Most people believe they control dozens of aspects of their daily lives, from wake-up times to task lists. But what happens when an accident blocks the road or plans fall apart? This episode strips away the illusion of control to reveal just two things that remain constant no matter what chaos erupts around you. Once you understand what they are and how they work together, everything else about le
The Active Mind Why Reading Builds Brains and Not Just Knowledge part 1
We explore why reading regularly actually builds and organizes our brains in the most beneficial way.
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