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Bitcoin continues to trade lower as the overall cryptocurrency market tapers off

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Obrian
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A coin representing Bitcoin cryptocurrency in the U.K. Photographer: Bloomberg Creative Photos/Bloomberg

Bitcoin is currently being ravaged and battered by the bear market. It’s currently priced at $35,244.38 as of this writing a far cry from its high of roughly $67000 in November.

Bitcoin is not the only cryptocurrency that is feeling the knives of market bears who are always in the woods waiting and gazing at their prey for any sign of weakness to unleash their wrath. Ethereum is currently trading at $2,445.58 along with Cardano at $1.09.

It’s going to be a pretty interesting year to see where the market goes from there. Interestingly the cryptocurrency market is not the only market that is untouched.

Last week the stock market faced a massive sell-off across all sectors. The Dow Jones industrial average lost nearly 1,400 points. On the other side of things, the S&P 500 fell 5.1 percent since Tuesday.

Within the crypto space, Coinbase and Robinhood continue to trade lower as their stock and business are directly tied to the industry. Over the last week, Coinbase stock fell 15.29% and Robinhood fell by 13.98%.

UN released an article stating the obvious that the stock market and crypto market are oddly becoming more correlated.

Probably what’s going on will prove their thesis. One of Bitcoin’s main advantages touted by crypto investors is that it can be seen as a hedge against the modern financial world and its system. It was somehow immune to the noise of the real-world markets.

The year is quite early and we cannot doubt the cult following the crypto market has developed over the years. It will more than likely go up, it’s only a matter of when and by how much.

The Money Is In The Niche: How To Do Proper Niche Research

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Obrian
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Whether you are starting an online business or going into an existing market, doing good niche research is paramount.  This would’ve saved me hundreds of hours if I had known the strategies within this post.

When you do proper research, it helps to validate if your market is sizeable and profitable enough to make money. Many entrepreneurs would’ve saved millions of dollars if they had just conducted proper niche research.

A little niche of just 1000 people willing to pay you $100 for your service or product will net you $100,000 right off the bat. If that niche is not being touched by competitors you can offer other services and make even more money.

Your niche doesn’t have to be large it just has to be profitable enough to be worth your time and effort. Now let’s begin.

Google Search

Doing a quick google search on your market can save you thousands of dollars. For example, you want to create a blog in the lifestyle niche. If you are going to create just a lifestyle blog, you will have a lot of competitors.

Using a simple tool like Google will help you to sub-niche and look for areas where there is not a lot of competitors. Instead of writing about lifestyle and all its facets, why not write about vegetarianism. Although vegetarianism might seem lucrative, there is still a lot of competition in that niche.

The web is over 20 years old, so it’s pretty developed and most of the broad niches are all occupied and taken over by huge blogs or media sites.

Let’s continue where I left off, instead of creating a blog on vegetarianism why not create a blog on turning your kids into vegetarians or “breakfast vegetarian diets”. With breakfast vegetarian diets, you are specifically creating a blog for breakfast recipes only.

It might not seem sexy but the goal is to find niches that are not competitive but still have a lot of followers. Once you are hooked on a niche it’s essential to look at the blogs and websites within that space on Google search. This will give you an idea of how your overall plan might perform.

By looking at the searches it’s obvious that by typing “vegetarian pet diets”. A lot of media websites popped up and not a lot of mini-blogs.

This could be for various reasons such as probably there are niches, probably the niche is not fully tapped and a lot of generic posts by media outlets are on the page.

It could also be that the keyword “vegetarian pet diets”, is occupied by large media outlets that have a lot of authority.

Sub Tip

Another strategy you can do is to scroll down to the bottom of the page and you will likely see google suggestions related to your search. These will give you additional keywords related to your niche that can write about.

In this case, we can see “Vegan cat food recipes”, “vegetarian puppy food” etc. These could be various topics to write about.

You can even click on them to go deeper within the searches or go to the next page and continue your research process.

Google Trends

Google trends can help to see how trendy is your topic of interest. It helps to give you a gauge on whether your topic is positively growing interest over time or it was just a fad and it is cooling off. Let’s see how far, “vegetarian pet diets” can get us.

When I typed in “vegetarian pet diets” I never saw anything popped up.

Probably that’s because there isn’t any interest locally in my region. You can easily change countries by clicking on the dropdown bar and change to the USA for example.

This is another roadblock that you might stumble when doing niche research. Sometimes your market might not be local and you will probably have to target a set audience from another geography.

Now there is still nothing. Let’s chop off the “pets” and leave “vegetarian pets”.

Now you can see the move of the trend relating to your keyword. It seems like the interest is a bit seasonal as it tends to go up and down.

At that moment you will have to decide whether you would want to work with a seasonal niche or find an evergreen niche that is trending all year round.

With Google trends, you can adjust not just the country drop-down menu but the time span whether an hour ago, 4 hours, several days, months, etc. These larger timeframes will help you to see how far your plan can go.

Another drop-down I found valuable is changing the search options, you can change it to YouTube search, image search, etc. If you are planning to post video content and YouTube you can use that to your inkling.

Online Communities

Online communities can be a great way to see if your niche holds any weight. You can do searches on subreddits, which are mini-communities on Reddit.

Reddit is a social media platform that is driven by tight-knit communities called subreddit or in broader terms forums where persons gravitating towards a certain niche can communicate.

Instead of doing “vegetarian pet diets Reddit”, you could change Reddit with “forums”, “Facebook groups”, “online communities” etc. You basically need to find a space where people are talking about your idea and topic.

This step can help you to understand the psychology behind your audience such as language patterns, idioms, etc.

Whenever you want to write a post or develop a product/service, you can use the ideas from your research session.

Magazines and Books

Books and magazines can also be another online resource you can use to understand your audience and to see if demand is there for your product or service. You can search for magazines related to your keywords “vegetarian pet diets”.

Additionally, you can search for books on Amazon related to your niche. If there are books related to your topic, you could say that it does have an audience.

Keyword Research

Doing bare-bones keyword research with various tools could prove to be worthwhile for your business. You have various tools available you can use to conduct thorough keyword research to give you an idea of your overall market.

Below is a list of tools you could use:

Free Tools

Wordstream

Keywordtool.io

Wordtracker

Google Keyword Planner

You have many other tools you can use. Also keep in mind that even though basic search functionalities of the tools listed above are free, to do advance searching you might need to buy an upgrade where the prices are often reasonable.

Paid Tools

Semrush

Moz Keyword Explorer

Wincher

In closing these are some of the easiest methods you can use to do market research to see how far your product or idea can go.

Similarly, to Google research, you could also use the same technique over YouTube to see how the market is reacting to your ideas.

It’s important not to stress over this period of getting overly analytical, just use the tools to get a rough overview of the market sentiment and make a decision.

‘The King’s Man’ to Release on Hulu in February

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Smiley
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There’s a new menace coming from Russia to your TV, as 20th Century Studios’ revealed The King’s Man is debuting on Hulu next month.

Outside the U.S., the prequel to the Kingsman franchise will be part of the Disney+ Star, or Star+ banner, with different release dates set for each region of the globe.

Disney+ subscribers living in UK & Ireland, Japan, and Korea will get to watch the prequel from the comfort of their homes earlier than everyone else, as The King’s Man debuts under the Star banner on February 9.

Next comes the Hulu release in the U.S. on February 18, and for Disney+ clients in Latin America, the movie will only be available on March 2, under the Star+ banner.

So, if you haven’t had a chance to check it out in theaters yet, you won’t have to wait that much longer to watch it from the comfort of your home.

Bluedot: Finding Insights In Data

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Obrian
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We are living in an age where information is all around us. We can find a ubiquitous amount of data almost everywhere we look on the digital landscape. Whether we are randomly browsing on the internet, scrolling through our social media news feed, watching videos on YouTube, etc.

Data is everywhere, as it relates to businesses, information is being collected every day from different data touchpoints: social media, financial reports, customer service, regulation, etc.

It can get overwhelming for businesses and that’s exactly where Bluedot Insights comes into the picture. Bluedot Insights is a company that was founded by CEO Larren Peart several years ago under the influence to bring data analytics into the Jamaican landscape.

It’s not the first company to focus on data analytics within Jamaica. However, it has carved a niche for itself that was not easily seen by competitors.

The company focuses on areas such as full-service market research, advanced social media and analysis, competitor analysis, and other services which entail them working directly with customers.

This analysis will help businesses, governmental and non-governmental organizations better understand their customers and capitalize on the profitable metrics and data layers that were once untapped.

The Future

Even though it was launched several years ago, demand for its services has been growing. The company is planning to expand within the Caribbean market where their services will be of great use in regions that might not have the skill to tackle this subject.

Mr. Peart is energized and motivated from the recent opportunity to reacquire his shares that was sold off to private investors a couple of years ago.

The plan never quite worked out the way he had liked and the two parties had to part ways. One of the areas that Bluedot Insights is taking aim at is artificial intelligence and machine learning.

It’s way easier for small enterprises to use complex statistical models and solve interesting business problems with the technologies available. It would be interesting to see how the company utilizes these technologies in the Jamaican market.

Spur Tree Spices: One Of Great Demand

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Oneil
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Spur Tree Spices Limited (SPURTREE) being the first company to get listed on the Junior Market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange for the year 2022 has enjoyed a successful oversubscribed IPO.

The company launched 15 years ago and has consistently grown its brands of seasonings and spices making its product line one of great demand in the Diaspora.

The company’s Initial Public Offering closed on December 31, 2021, and was oversubscribed by 1.3 Billion Jamaican Dollars more than the 335.3 million dollars that they initially set out to Achieve.

CEO Albert Bailey inserting the instrument ticker symbol during the listing ceremony.

Investors were awarded the minimum allotment of 10,000 units along with an additional 11% from the remaining portions of their applications.

On its listing day, the stock was halted at $1.30 JMD per share with only two trades of 1 and 2 units being executed. These trades saw the end of trading for $SPURTREE.ja on Friday, January 14, 2022.

Trading resumed on Monday, January 17 and the Instrument grew 40 cents to once again halt at $1.72 JMD with just under 30 Trades being executed. Trading of the instrument resumed after one hour as per the Jamaica Stock Exchange’s circuit breaker rule.

Investors continue to be excited about this new company being listed and are eating up the shares.

Spur Tree Chairman Metry Seaga concluded his speech on listing day by saying “thank you for putting your faith in us. We will aim to consistently deliver shareholder value and remain a prized addition to your investment portfolio.”

10 best ad networks for web publishers in 2022

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Obrian
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Blogging and online publishing can be a worthwhile business if you have a good amount of traffic coming in and you want to find ways to monetize it. You have many different ways to monetize a blog, you can do email marketing, sell items, consulting, etc.

The ideas are endless you just got to be creative. Another traditional way that is still profitable today is advertising. That still dominates the online market today.

Without advertising most blogs wouldn’t be able to make any money online. If you want to monetize your blog, you have different networks that you can sign up to and use based on certain criteria.

Below I will list 10 of the best ad networks you can use to monetize your blog in 2022.

Ezoic

Ezoic is an ad network that brands itself as a company that uses artificial intelligence algorithms to do ad testing, placements, etc. They also test many other data points to find the best combinations of what to use.

As a user of Ezoic, you will have a suite of tools available at your fingertips to ensure that your campaigns are optimized. As for accessibility, you only need 10,000 sessions per month which is not bad. The minimum payout is $20.

Amazon Associate

Over the years Amazon has taken good care in growing its Amazon Associates program. This has enabled online publishers from around the world to earn between $100 and $25000 each month. Due to the fact that it has grown so much, it’s not easy to get into as some of the others that are listed on this page.

This can prove to be a good thing because once you have moved through the hoops and have access to the platform the world of amazon products is open up to you.

One of the main downsides of this platform is that you only get a commission if the user clicks on the ad and actually checks out. Over the years Amazon has made changes to help mitigate this and to help you make a living.

Now you can still earn commission on other products added to the user’s cart after they have clicked through on your ad and actually purchase those items.

Taboola

Taboola is a native ad platform, have you ever been to websites before and seen content on the bottom of it which seems oddly interesting. Those are basically advertising in the form of articles and they have grown in popularity over the years.

These ads are also tended to have good click-through rates. To get into Taboola you need to have a more established platform with 500,000 visitors per month.

Outbrain

Outbrain is another native ad platform that is very popular. Similar to Taboola they are able to recommend ad content that is related to your blog posts.

Users are not going to feel out of touch clicking on them. Outbrain is also not easy to get into, you need to have at least 3 million US visitors per month.

Revcontent

Revcontent is a native ad platform similar to others I have discussed above. As a publisher, you will have full control over the ads placed on your website. As for rates, it is also pretty good. Lastly, you only need 50,000 visitors per month to get in, but you have to ensure that it is quality content.

Adversal

Adversal pride themselves on high conversion rates. If you meet the requirements of 50,000 impressions per month and join in. You will have a better chance of making money with this company. Their referral commissions are also pretty high which will attract affiliates.

Mediavine

Another ad network that can be valuable for publishers is Mediavine. Over the years they have created an established advertising brand that publishers have come to benefit from all around the world.

It’s not necessary but if your website is within the lifestyle niche: food, health, family, etc. You will have an advantage as they tend to focus on these publishers more.

The minimum requirement is 50,000 visitors per month.

Monumetric

Monumetric is not a bad choice for publishers who are pretty small and want to earn a living within the industry. The minimum requirement is 10,000 page views per month.

If that’s not the case and you have above 80,000 accumulated views over your website’s existence, you can still be able to work with this platform. If your views are below, 80,000, then you will have to pay them $90 in fees in order to use their platform.

This money will be held by them until your site has achieved over 80,000 views.

AdThrive

If your website is within the lifestyle niche: food, home, travel, etc. You can use this platform. They believe in the “creator first” mission so they are going to ensure that you get paid at all times.

To get in, you will have to ensure that your website is receiving at least 100,000 page views per month. They should also be primarily from the US and you’ll need to have Google analytics installed.

Media.net

Media.net is always being touted as an alternative for Google Adsense. That goes to show you how large the platform is and the business they have established over time.

You can display both textual and display ads on your website. To get in you need traffic from first-world English-speaking countries such as the USA, Canada, UK, etc.

Additionally, there is no set metric for how many visitors your website should have.

Where to go from here

Take advantage of these resources and do your own research as well to discover the best ad networks for your website. Hopefully, this guide will be valuable to you.

GM challenges Carvana with new app

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Obrian
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COLMA, CA - JULY 25: The General Motors logo is displayed on a car a Chevrolet dealership on July 25, 2018 in Colma, California. General Motors lowered its profit forecasts citing higher steel and aluminum costs due to tariffs imposed by the Trump administration. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Carvana faces new pressure from GM (General Motors) as they have announced that they will be entering the used car marketplace. The used car marketplace has grown over the last couple of years.

It’s safe to say that it is now seen as a big enough pie for GM to step in and take market share from participants such as Carvana.

The used car market has potential, it has puzzled analysts as to why GM never entered earlier. Yearly around 40 million used car vehicles are sold and that is twice the number of new cars and trucks. The entire process of selling a used car doesn’t involve automakers at all.

Carvana has enjoyed a successful 2021 at one point their stock was trading at $370 per share. As the world faces supply chain issues, they swooped in those niche markets and offer vehicles sometimes above the normal market price due to lack of supply. In 2020 they made roughly $5.587 billion in revenue.

Despite their success, they have lost more than half their valuation over the last year. Currently, they are trading at $163 per share a far cry from their high. Along with their troubles in the stock market, competitors are now waking up to the marketplace and want a piece of the action.

GM is planning to launch an app called CarBravo, with their huge customer base they can be able to scale pretty easily. GM officials said that the company currently has over 400,000 used cars in stock.

As competition mounts for Carvanna it will be interesting to see how they are going to handle this coupled with their stock market woes.

Crypto poses systemic risks deem IMF

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Obrian
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Internal Monetary Fund (IMF) released a blog detailing the concerns that the crypto market might have in the future of the stock market. In the detailed post, they talked about the fact that both the crypto market and the stock market are trading in sync.

Before the pandemic, this wasn’t an issue as the crypto market was seen as a hedge whenever there was a societal risk in the local currency or investors need an alternative asset to store cash in.

Since cryptocurrency is slowly becoming a main staple of society, caution should still be taken if and when you decide to travel in these uncertain territories. Since the trading charts between stocks and crypto are starting to look oddly similar.

IMF is stating that if there were to come a time when the crypto market collapses or something happens, it will bleed into the stock market and destabilize financial markets.

Thus, there needs to be an international regulatory framework that can prevent this from happening and protect investors.

Writer’s Take

At the moment the crypto market does indeed need to be regulated. The rabbit has already gotten out of the hat and there is no going back.

Digital currencies are the future and as more investors enter the market, there needs to be a framework that protects investors and the wider financial society.

The volatility of the crypto market driven by speculators is much different from the traditional movements of the stock market.

It’s akin to tech stocks but on steroids. It will be a challenge to regulate this market given the fact that the industry is moving quickly and new applications and features are being launched all around the world. This will be a difficult task but is necessary.

Abundance is About More Than Just Money

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Contributor
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Some people equate financial success with abundance. Having enough money is a significant part of abundance, but there’s much more to it.

Abundance is a mindset and a belief system. It’s a way of viewing the world, the people in it, and yourself. It’s making the decision to believe that the universe will provide, as long as you hold up your end of the bargain.

You can be wealthy and be alone. You can have money and be in poor health. You can be financially successful and be miserable. You can be the wealthiest person in the world and still not experience abundance.

Consider these ideas and experience abundance in your life:

  1. Abundance is an attitude – Money is money, but abundance is a mindset. It’s a decision to believe that you can have whatever you need, in the quantities you need it. It’s the belief that there is always enough.
  2. Abundance is having an excess of important resources – True abundance isn’t just money. It’s also about having enough of the other necessary resources in your life. This can include things like free time, love, and happiness. Money is important, but there’s much more to abundance than money.
  3. Abundance is the belief that there is enough for everyone – Those obsessed with wealth are often competitive and believe that there’s only a finite amount of wealth to be divided among everyone. Abundance is the belief that there’s enough for everyone.
  4. Abundance has a greater impact on happiness than wealth – Abundance greatly increases the likelihood of happiness. Great wealth is no more likely to make you happy than a decent middle-class income. There’s research to support this idea. You can’t make yourself happier by accumulating great wealth.
  5. Abundance avoids attachment – Abundance lacks attachment. There’s no reason to hold on tightly to what you have if you believe there will always be enough in the future. With an abundance mindset, you feel comfortable allowing everything to flow into and out of your life.
  6. Abundance allows you to dream bigger – Abundance allows for the biggest of dreams to become a possibility in your mind. Money provides opportunities, but only for those things you can afford. Abundance takes the possibilities in your life to another level.
  7. Abundance avoids resentment – With abundance, there’s no reason to be jealous or resentful of someone else’s success. The success of one person can’t negatively impact the success of someone else.
  8. Those with an abundant mindset are grateful – Gratitude is part of abundance. You can’t experience abundance unless you’re grateful for what you have. Gratitude creates the possibility of receiving even more in the future. How grateful are you right now?
  9. Abundance leads to positive expectations – When you believe in abundance, you are positive about the future. You expect good things to happen and to continue happening.

How much abundance do you have in your life? How would you measure abundance? What does abundance mean to you? You can’t acquire what you don’t identify.

Resist the urge to believe that all of your challenges will be solved with money. Once your money issues are solved, you have a whole new set of problems to deal with. You just couldn’t see them before.

For example, you don’t care too much about your unreliable car if you’re in the process of drowning in the lake. You don’t see your loneliness as a problem if you’re struggling to buy food each month. Money solves certain challenges, but there are more challenges waiting for you.

Abundance can solve far more challenges than money. Seek abundance in all forms. This is much more powerful than just a large bank account.

Practical tips on how to learn a skill

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Obrian
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It’s never been easier to learn a new skill. It’s probably one of the easiest ways to level up in today’s society. With the information provided at our fingertips: YouTube, online certificates, online resources, etc.

If you dedicate 1 hour of the working day for 6 months and put in an extra 5 on the weekends, you will be way ahead of the population. If you are planning to upgrade your career or earn a side income, learning a skill could probably be one of the easiest ways to do it.

The information is there but not a lot of persons are doing it. Most “normies” want to stay exactly where they are and don’t want to change even if it means coping with the forever hardships of life.

In this guide, I hope to enlighten ways that you can use to learn a skill so that you too can become more valuable in our society. If it’s computer-based, all the better as a whole world of opportunities are opened up to you.

If it doesn’t require computers, it still doesn’t matter as long as you are leveling up.

Passion vs Competence

Persons usually wrestle with this question when they want to learn something new or double down on a skill. Should they learn what they double down on what they are passionate about or tackle a skill they are competent.

This is a question that only you can answer. It also depends on your goals as well. If you are in a position where your main competency can lead to career growth and unlimited potential, it makes sense to go that route over your passion. Your passion might be fulfilling and could be done in your spare time.

Practice

Whenever you are trying to learn a skill, you have to practice. Depending on the skill you have to practice consistently for years. You would be amazed how many geniuses and productive individuals were literally incompetent in the beginning.

They just kept showing up and slowly chip away a piece of the block at a time. If you are working a job and you also have a lot of responsibilities, you can spend at least 30 minutes per day practicing that skill.

30 minutes per day is better than none. 0.001 is still more than 0 and if you persist within those short blocks, it will add up over time. Lastly, if you should add up all the hours you wasted throughout the day, 30 minutes seems like a low bargain.

Practice the Art of Learning

This concept changed the way how I thought about knowledge acquisition when I first found out about it. I never knew that learning was a skill, I thought just like walking and talking, it was instinctual.

To a certain degree, it is instinctual but those instincts can be refined and be built upon. Before paper was a necessity within society and computers which made us more productive and yet a bit lazy.

Scholars and scientists of their period had to rely on techniques to remember vast amounts of knowledge. They also never had computers and most of the calculations had to be done by hand.

In today’s world, there are techniques that you can use to enhance your learning abilities. Learning how to learn wasn’t taught to us in school in just the same way as learning how to read well.

Most of us had to rely on instincts and we often develop bad habits over time. Here are some techniques you can use below:

Spaced Repetition

Spaced repetition is a technique you use to remember information over a long time period. This technique is suitable for the information that is item-based such as vocabulary or formulas.

You would normally use index cards with the information on them. Typically, you would study the cards and recall them over a period of time to get that spacing effect.

You would start the first session today, then start the second one three days’ time. Next, you could do a recall session the other week and then space it out again another two more weeks.

Feynman Technique

The Feynman technique might seem simple and basic common sense. But common sense is often not common practice. In fact, this method was developed by Richard Feynman who was one of the most famous scientists in the latter part of the 1900s. It is comprised of 4 steps.

Step 1

Study the topic and then seek to write down everything you deem to know about the topic on paper. You are basically exercising your mental muscles at this moment.

Step 2

You are then going to teach the topic to someone or an imaginary audience. Studies have found that teaching about a topic will help you to retain the information better. Refines your thinking.

Step 3

You are going to go back over the studies and fill in the gaps that were lost. Oftentimes, when you are learning all the information, will not seem so clear.

Step 4

Lastly, you are going to simplify the information and break it down to a level where you can easily explain it to others or even a 5-year-old. If you can be able to explain it to a 5-year-old and they understand, it means you have understood the topic.

Mind Mapping

Mind mapping is a skill that can help you to work according to how your brain works. Our brains can be seen as connection machines, we are always making connections with the outside environment.

For every new information that comes in, we have to use some past data as a reference to understand it. This process happens very quickly.

Whenever we are mind mapping a topic, we are starting from one focal point and then create branches of information that relate to that topic. This process will happen repeatedly until all our information has gotten exhausted. It might seem simple but it’s pretty effective if you do it right.

Climbing Plateaus

When you are learning, you will hit plateaus. This is different for everybody. It’s the point when it seems like nothing is working or connecting properly. It can also be the point when the learning becomes a monotonous activity and it’s not exciting anymore.

You have to challenge yourself during this period and don’t get lost on the top of the plateau. You have to challenge yourself to get to another level.

If you used to put 30 minutes into a daily study, why not add 10 more minutes to make it 40? Take on more projects, research tests, or challenges online and try them out. Learning is an iterative process.

Like anything worthwhile achieving, it’s going to be messy in the beginning. Continuous improvement is a must and that should be your aim. Even 0.00001% improvement is better than being at the same place.

Learn the History of the Topic

When you are trying to learn about a topic. First-principles thinking is important. You are not going to truly understand a topic unless you understand first principles, the mere essence of the topic. Whether you are studying computer science, mathematics, biology, law, etc.

Learning the history of the topic can help you to have a different perspective on the entire topic. In school, for example, we are often taught mathematical rules and at the end of the day, we have to just accept them without knowing how they came about.

You do have schools out there that teach mathematical history but oftentimes, that is attached to a Ph.D. and is not easily accessible unless you are really out there seeking it.

When you are trying to learn something, try and understand the history of the topic. Even if it’s just a grasp. It’s not necessary but if you are extremely curious and want to know how everything is put together within your domain, it would do wonders for you.

Keep a Journal

Journaling is an important skill that you can develop not just for studying but for life in general. It helps you to jot down ideas, track progress, write down your roadblocks, etc. It can provide a swath of information for future use.

If you are solely focusing on studying, having a journal can push you a far way. Even if you are basically writing down what you’ve learned in very concise sentences.

Get a Mentor

Depending on your skill, learning can be a lonely process. Especially if you are trying to tackle a topic where you are basically an outlier. Thanks to the internet, that can easily be solved if you can research and find online communities that are in line with your interest.

This will help the journey to be easier as you are going to find persons above you in terms of skill and below you. For the ones above you, you should seek their guidance.

You would be amazed how nice people on the internet can be especially if you are one of them. Having mentors can be one of the fastest ways to learn a skill. They can point in the right direction which took them years to learn. You will 10x your learning rate and focus on the things that matter.

If you don’t find any mentors in the beginning, search for videos on YouTube, there is probably someone uploading videos in your niche.

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