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Improving Your Ability to Learn Means Leaving Your Comfort Zone

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/423447?utm_source=pocket-newtab-intl-en Reading isn't the only way to improve your ability to learn. By Aytekin Tank April 29, 2022 Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In grade school, I was taught that learning came from studious labor, the discipline of memorization and retention of facts. I carried this same mindset with me into college and later into my first job as a junior programmer.  It wasn’t until years later when I became an entrepreneur that I came across a quote by author Josh Waitzkin that completely changed my perspective. “The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity,” he wrote. “Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.” Since that ep