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How To Develop The One Skill You Need To Spark Your Learning

You don’t need many. Just one and you’ll be on your way.

Mathias Barra
3 min readDec 23, 2019
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Why do you want to learn?

Such an easy question and yet its answer isn’t really easy to find. After all, shouldn’t we all just want to learn?

Learning does so many things for us such as, among others, expand our horizons, develop ourselves and help us understand the world around us. And yet, so many people just live their life without ever really trying to learn something new. Do you want to just sail through life like that?

If not, you’ve already taken the first step but the next one is to develop one specific skill: your curiosity.

While learning is a long journey in itself, it doesn’t have to feel like one. If you develop the skill of curiosity, then you’ll be good to go for the long-run.

You might say curiosity is not a skill but a personality trait. However, just like any other skill, curiosity is something we can develop through sheer efforts. And as you do, you will expand your world manifold.

On top of all this, developing curiosity is extremely easy! It’s just a matter of bringing your inner child back out in the world and you can do that in 4 steps.

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Mathias Barra
Mathias Barra

Written by Mathias Barra

French polyglot speaking 6 languages. Writer. Helping you learn languages. Get my new ebook → https://linktr.ee/MathiasBarra

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