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Want to pick up a new skill?<\/p>\n

Don’t we all. And we also want it to happen fast, so fast.<\/p>\n

And preferably without any effort as well.<\/p>\n

Well, I do have one secret that at least will “make it feel” like there’s no effort. And I can guarantee that it will speed up your progress. Here’s the secret.<\/p>\n

The brain just wants to have fun.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll say it again. You brain simply wants to have fun. When it does, you will learn. Fast. And I want to help you understand how to make it happen.<\/p>\n

It might not sound like any major news, but this realization came to when attending a course in finance by my employer. What I thought would be pretty difficult to learn was actually surprisingly easy. After a whole bunch of games, role playing and exercises I had understood everything.<\/p>\n

But the real important part of that course is that I still today, 1 year later, I remember pretty much every single part of the content. Simply because it was so fun learning!<\/p>\n

How I Learned Chinese<\/h2>\n

Using this little secret is how I have been able to learn Chinese – a language far different than anything I knew before.<\/p>\n

One of the real methods I have used is to listen to Chinese children’s songs. That’s right! It might sound a bit silly, but that’s what I did. Why? Because it was fun!<\/p>\n

It’s always fun to feel like a child again – to sing out loud (even though I sound horrible), to play games and to enjoy every moment.<\/p>\n

Another method I used when learning was to everyday write a funny little story using the new words I had picked up. This forced me to use my creativity to write down something entertaining \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

There are many great ways to have more fun while learning, so here are 5 of my tips:<\/p>\n

5 Ways to Learn the Fun Way<\/h2>\n

1. Learn together with friends<\/h3>\n

Almost everything in life becomes more fun when you do it together with someone else. Learning is definitely one of those things.<\/p>\n

The thing is that you can feed of each other’s energy to build momentum. It also much easier to create some sort of game, quiz or similar.<\/p>\n

2. Create a game<\/h3>\n

As I just mentioned, why not create your very own game? It doesn’t have to be complicated, just something to motivate you a little bit.<\/p>\n

This is at least the case for me since I am strongly motivated by any form of competition. You can e.g. set a time limit and then try to collect points for different sort of progress.<\/p>\n

This works for whatever you are trying to learn<\/p>\n