Those who know me know how strongly I believe in learning how to learn. There are few investments you can make as effective as investing in new ways to learn better.

By and large, life is a brain game. The better yours is, the more you can do and the farther you will go.

Learning makes your brain better. Pete Holmes gets a thrill every time he learns something new because he says it's like he's stealing something from someone, to be his forever.

That's a great way to look at it because it excites him.

For me, learning is a little more fantastical and a little less...criminal.

Learning for me is like my planet becoming larger. Reading yesterday's post, you'll recognize that the more you give out, the more you'll get in return. In that way, we're all like planets hurdling through our own solar systems, constantly magnetizing new things - ideas, information, people, experiences, learnings.

The more we magnetize, the denser we become - which then increases our ability to magnetize new and varied things.

It's an incredibly virtuous cycle.

So I was excited when I was served a 5-minute YouTube ad while trying to follow a workout video one evening last month.

Yes, you read that right. I was excited about a 5-minute YouTube ad.

It was about Jim Kwik's FAST method of learning. Hook, line, and sinker.

He established his credentials early, and had me melting when he revealed his catchy acronym boiling down his method.

Those who know me know there are few things that tickle me the way a mnemonic device does. The clustering, the personal relevance, there are so many layers that make the mnemonic device so damn effective.

Without further ado:

F - forget. In order to learn more effectively, you must clear your mind and have a beginner's brain.

A - active. Stop consuming and start creating. (It's why I'm doing this daily blog.) Learning only happens through creation. It is not a spectator sport.

S - state. You must be in an open, learning state in order to learn. Rumi: "sell your cleverness, and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion; bewilderment is intuition." You are a thermostat, you are not a thermometer (a visual metaphor I absolutely love).

T - teach. The original learning "hack" if there was one. When you teach it, you learn it twice, 3 times over. It is the ultimate learning catalyst.

Writing this blog helps me learn all of it better. How are you learning?