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How To Stop Pushing Away Learning The One Skill You Need

You need to realise a step back is needed to push you forward

Mathias Barra
2 min readAug 7, 2019

If you’re reading this, you must be at least interested in the idea of creating a better self. And if you are, you’ve probably already found a whole lot of things you want to accomplish, right?

To get closer to your goals, you’ll have to go through a whole lot of different skills and experiences. Some will be easier to accomplish than others. Some won’t.

Yet there are also tons of skills which don’t align with your goals.

Why would you learn violin if you’re interested in trumpet? Why would learning coding be useful to you as a fireman? What’s the point of studying biology if you want to become a painter?

There’s clearly no point in learning those, right?

But there is also one common aspect to all those: Learning

No matter what you want to accomplish, you will have to keep on learning skills and knowledge throughout your life. And for this simple reason, you need to develop a thirst for learning and improving constantly.

Oh, it takes time to learn? I know. It’s not always fun, is it?

That’s why you first need to learn how to

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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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