Learning and personal growth are an essential part of being an entrepreneur. Back when I decided to go into entrepreneurship full time, I realized I will not be able to move forward, if I don’t embrace the constant learning process. So, I decided to take one day a week to learn, re-learn and educate myself on marketing, entrepreneurship, and self-development.

Today in One Day a Week Is All it Takes 

| How to Learn Anything |

| Facebook’s Explore Feed Feature |

1. THE GROWTH SHOW: FROM MARKETING TO MOUNTAIN BIKING, HOW TO LEARN ANYTHING, AN INTERVIEW WITH NOAH KAGAN, SUMO.COM CEO 

I enjoyed listening to this episode of The Growth Show podcast very much. It is focused on one of my main priorities: learning new things, developing existent skills and knowledge while finding time and energy to mix these in a daily/weekly schedule.

Personally, I have one day a week when all I do is read and go through saved podcast episodes. I find this approach is actually a time-saver and will actually get good results. Sure enough, by the time my One Day A Week comes, I would already have a couple dozen of opened Chrome tabs waiting to be read, some two or three new podcast episodes waiting for me to hit play. I did try the variant where I do a daily one-hour self-education/training etc, but it didn’t work out that well for me. 

The guest on this episode of Hubspot “The Growth Show” podcast, is Noah Kagan, the Chief Sumo at Sumo.com. He talks about learning new things all the time. By the way, Sumo is offering all kinds of tools to help companies automate their list growth, increase website traffic and email signups. 

A few highlights from the episode:

– it’s not necessarily about finding time to learn something, but about finding the needed energy to put in it and make the most of your learning time.

– if you don’t know where to start, Noah suggests you remember the things you were passionate about as a child or teenager and try to reignite that fire as an adult.

– don’t procrastinate and wait until you believe you will have the time to commit to learning something new. Ask yourself what is the smallest step you can do today and start doing it.

– before entering adulthood, as a kid, teen or even young adult, we would normally have teachers showing us the ropes, keeping us aware of schedules and our commitment for learning. As an adult, we don’t really have teachers that would keep us in check. Instead, we can use coaches to help us achieve our goals and teach us new things.

– finding a coach, someone who is really good at that one thing you’re planning to learn will make it easier to assimilate new information and make sure you stay on schedule.

– the way Noah goes about finding a great coach is looking for the persons that are great at doing a particular thing and reaching out to them for help. Who is the best person at it? Obviously, not all coaches will be good for you. Try different people out and be responsible for how you’re learning; if you’re not registering progress with a particular coach, go find a new one.

There’s a lot more awesomeness in the episode, so I strongly recommend you listen to it:

Read more:

 70% of Time Could Be Used Better – How the Best CEOs Get the Most Out of Every Day by Bill Trenchard.

2. FACEBOOK’S EXPLORE FEED FEATURE 

So, here’s something I’ve been putting off for some time now. I saw some posts in my Facebook feed about some new changes to the platform. To tell you the truth, I was too scared to read more. 

Turns out, it wasn’t that bad. Here’s what’s going on:

Facebook recently released for desktop users, a new feature, called “Explore Feed”. You can find it in your Facebook menu, right at the bottom. The idea is to give users a chance to sort of break the bubble and help them discover new content, outside what their friends and liked pages post, but still similar to content users have expressed engaged with before.

What Facebook says:

“We are beginning to roll out a complementary feed of popular articles, videos, and photos, automatically customized for each person based on content that might be interesting to them. … We’ve heard from people that they want an easy way to explore relevant content from Pages they haven’t connected with yet.”

Sure enough, this could be an opportunity for brands to gain new followers, since Explore Feed is said to contain content selected based on what users have interacted with before (think share, link, comment). So if you like cat pics, you should see that in your Explore Feed, but posted by other pages than those you’re already following.