How To Get Smarter No Matter How Much Free Time You Have
这篇文章由早上酿造.
When we’re growing up, learning new things is a top priority. We learn to walk, talk, and hold a spoon. Once we’re old enough for school, our entire schedule is structured around intensive stretches of time solely focused on learning and getting smarter. Depending on the educational track we choose, this singular focus on learning can follow us well into our twenties. And then we go to work and everything changes.
成人生活很少专注于学习童年的方式。几周甚至几个月，而没有任何新事物，这非常容易。然而，那些无处不在的“新年决议最常见”的文章几乎总是包含有关变得更聪明或学习新事物的内容。
尽管有很多原因使决议能够平坦（一年中这个时候的另一篇非常常见的文章主题），但时间不必是其中之一。如果您的目标是在今年变得更聪明或学习新知识，那么您甚至可以用一小部分时间来完成它。与我们的合作伙伴一起早上酿造，是根据您有多少时间来学习新事物的一些策略。
如果您现在需要学习一些东西：
Get thee to YouTube! I don’t know what compels people to make free videos on how to fix a sink or whatever, but may those generous souls be blessed. My boyfriend is one of those engineers who can pretty much fix anything, but he was out of town this summer when our washing machine fritzed, so I couldn’t delegate its repair to him. I spent five minutes watching a YouTube video of a suburban dad explaining an easy fix and successfully implemented it myself. I’m still pretty smug about it, probably to an excessive degree given how easy it was, but my point remains: If you’re in a pinch, YouTube can teach you anything.
Honorable mention: Call someone. My parents have saved me from a few kitchen disasters in my early twenties because I called them in hysterics after realizing I didn’t know how to do something. Your contact list is probably full of people who can lend their knowledge in a pinch and make you smarter.
如果您每天有5-10分钟：
订阅电子邮件通讯。电子邮件时事通讯非常好，原因有几个：
1. They’re only so long, so when you’re done reading it, you’re done. You’re far less likely to find yourself teetering on the precipice of an internet black hole where you’re confined to a single message in your inbox.
2. It’s delivered straight to you, so you don’t have to go hunting for it.
3. You can choose the type of content you want to receive instead of sifting through pages of clickbait to find the valuable stuff.
我个人最喜欢的是早上酿造. It’s a business newsletter that arrives in my inbox every weekday morning with all the latest news in acquisitions, mergers, IPOs, and other business news. The writing style is super digestible and often quite funny, so it’s an easy and enlightening read. Plus you’ll feel smart as hell when you have an opportunity to drop some knowledge you picked up while reading it, which, spoiler alert, will happen a lot.
If you have a long-ish to horrendous commute:
听播客。早上酿造has one called Business Casual, and there are literally hundreds more awaiting you.事情怎么样,Stuff You Should Know,99pi， 和Hardcore Historycan all teach you new stuff in the time it takes for you to schelp your lunchbox to the office.
If you have a few hours to kill over the weekend:
Go to a museum. Take the time to really absorb everything you can from an exhibit. Read all the plaques, take in the art if you’re at an art museum, do the activities if you’re at a science museum. I recently dawdled my way through a Da Vinci exhibit that blew my mind and taught me a lot about anatomy, Da Vinci’s era, and how artists work. Given the fact that I rarely engage those topics in my daily life (or ever), it was a great opportunity for me to broaden my horizons. Plus I got to feel smug while perusing the gift shop because I knew things about the various prints that were on sale.
另一个想法：去讲座。图书馆，大学和社区中心经常有免费并向公众开放的演讲系列。如果您可以看到自己最喜欢的作者讲话之一，奖励积分！
If you have a few hours a week:
上课。社区学院，学习中心和yabo88 app图书馆在各种科目中都有大量的免费和廉价课程。您可以深入了解自己在学校所爱的主题，您可以探索一个与您的日常工作无关的话题，也可以学习动手技能。手工艺品和五金店通常有很棒的课程，您可以在其中学习如何编织，扔陶或安排花朵，或在管道，美化环境和其他家庭管理技能方面挑选一些基础知识。我以15美元的价格在当地的Makerspace上了焊接课程，并用新发现的能力为我的父母圣诞节制作了彩色玻璃自行车轮。
另一个想法：加入或成立读书俱乐部。除了书籍本身，读书俱乐部是有意义的讨论的好地方，使您思考不同。如果不是您的果酱，那么您不必以奥普拉的书籍俱乐部书为中心。我去当地瑜伽工作室的读书俱乐部，我总是走开。奖金：新朋友。
If you don’t have a specific timeframe:
Read a book. There are books on accounting, woodworking, world history, sewing, and anything else you can imagine. I’ve heard multiple stories about inmates earning their law degrees by studying every law book they can get their hands on from the prison library and use that knowledge to liberate the wrongly accused. Personally, I have used books to learn how to cook odd things, host better gatherings, organize my home, completely overhaul and properly manage my finances, and have difficult conversations.
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我们现代的伟大礼物之一是通过多种媒体可以使用的知识和学习的几乎无限的可用性。无论您有多少时间，都可以拿起新的东西。
Maggie Olson is a marketing professional living in northeast Ohio. She is a voracious reader, a doting house plant parent, and a hiker/biker/runner/kayaker. She’s currently on a mission to cook 30 new things before her 30th birthday. You can follow her cooking and baking adventures on Instagram at @maggieolsonor find her on Twitter at @maggiebolson.
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