Learn-To-Learn
We are a team with over 40 years of experience in coaching, educating, and supporting others to become better learners. Our passion is to freely support our fellow humans in discovering and expressing their best qualities to the highest degree. We are not looking for donations, sales, or any other outside form of support. We are simply doing our best to get people to participate in recognizing all that is possible for them to learn and sharing with them in ways to bring that about. Our belief is that the best way to do that is to give people the tools...
Learn to be a Leader part 4
If we want to lead we have to build trust and through that influence. We dive deeply into the hows....
Micro Series: The Mask You Didn't Know You Were Wearing
You can get through most situations with a polished performance, saying the right things and showing the acceptable face. It works, technically. But something essential gets lost in that transaction, something about connection that runs deeper than social success. This episode examines the attitude of sincerity and why showing up genuinely matters more than most people admit. Beneath the rugged individualist stance, beneath the claim that you don't need anyone, there's usually something else asking to be recognized. What happens when you stop performing and start connecting?
Learn to be a Leader part 3
Learn how to develop and communicate our vision at the heart of our leadership. How to take your dream and make it real with others.
Micro Series: The Two Parts of Forgiving
Most people think forgiveness is about letting someone off the hook or being noble. But the word itself reveals something different when you break it apart. Forgiving has two pieces, and the first one has nothing to do with anyone else. This episode explores what you're actually giving when you forgive, especially when you direct it at yourself after a failure. The teacher might have written a terrible test, but staying stuck in that judgment traps you more than it punishes them. So what's the alternative?
Learn to be a Leader part 2
We learn to have more emotional intelligence in our leadership and in our learning. We develop the sophisticated set of capabilities needed to navigate The complex human dynamics that are at the heart of leadership.
Micro Series: It Shouldn't Be Like This
That phrase runs through your head constantly when things go wrong. The test was unfair, the situation was impossible, life dealt you a bad hand. It feels righteous to think this way, like you're standing up for yourself. But what if that attitude is the very thing locking you in place? This episode starts with the most fundamental attitude shift required for anything else to work: accepting what actually is, not what should be. From failed tests to life's bigger disappointments, the pattern is the same. You can't move forward while arguing with reality.
Learn to be a Leader part 1
Explore with us the intimate relationship between being a leader and being a learner. Together we become better at both.
Micro Series: Building Your Attitude Arsenal
You've watched someone else breeze through what broke you. You've handled the same situation differently after some years passed. By now, the point is clear: attitude changes everything, and you get to choose it. But choice without options is meaningless. This episode shifts from why attitude matters to which specific attitudes deserve space in your mental toolkit. Not every outlook serves you equally, and some are worth having ready before the next crisis hits. So which ones make the cut?
Mastering Goals for Learning Success part 4
We share here the four cycles of mastering motivation that keep us moving forward when the initial excitement wears off. This is essential for long-term success.
Micro Series: Your Attitude Archive
Your memory holds the evidence you need, sorted into two distinct categories. The moments when everything fell apart and the moments when everything clicked. This episode guides you through a specific excavation of both, asking you to notice not just what happened but what you were thinking in the background before, during, and after. The patterns hiding in those memories reveal something crucial about how attitude doesn't just color your experience but actively shapes the outcomes themselves.
Mastering Goals for Learning Success part 3
How do we maintain and develop further the inspiration that keeps us moving forward in fulfilling our goals. How do we overcome the things that so often hold us back.
Micro Series: The Hundred Times Rule
Changing your attitude sounds like a quick mental flip, but the reality is messier. That defeating outlook didn't appear overnight, and it won't disappear with a single decision. This episode confronts the repetition required to overwrite deeply grooved patterns and asks a pointed question: if you've already done the work to cement a negative attitude through countless repetitions, why not use that same mechanism in reverse? What happens when you treat attitude change like building a new habit rather than finding sudden enlightenment?
Mastering Goals for Learning Success part 2
To set effective goals, we have to uncover and discover what are essential and most important yearnings and goals actually are. We take the time here to help you develop that capacity.
Micro Series: Background Noise
You might handle a challenge confidently in the moment while a quiet voice whispers that eventual defeat is inevitable. That contradiction matters more than most people realize. This episode explores the difference between your immediate reaction and the deeper attitude running silently beneath it, the one that shapes everything without announcing itself. Noticing these hidden patterns is step one. Recognizing you can actually rewrite them is step two. But what happens when the old soundtrack keeps trying to play itself again?
Mastering Goals for Learning Success part 1
Here we begin a new series delving into how to fundamentally master developing and setting our goals in ways that ensure success.
Micro Series: The Rabbit Hole Choice
Failure, shortcomings, and things going wrong aren't optional in life. They show up whether you invite them or not. What is optional is the rabbit hole you choose afterward. One path spirals into defeat and self-judgment, while the other transforms setbacks into fuel for what comes next. This episode reveals why the difference between these two paths isn't about positive thinking or motivation, but about a specific shift in how you frame what just happened and what it means about where you're headed.
The Active Mind Why Reading Builds Brains and Not Just Knowledge part 2
We continue our exploration of the fundamental importance of reading in building and organizing our brains and our mind in ways that ensure success.
Micro Series: Mastering the Unmasterable
Once you know the two constants you can control, the obvious next question emerges: how do you actually choose them? Selecting where to focus and what attitude to bring sounds deceptively simple, almost too obvious to matter. But there's a massive gap between understanding this principle and consistently living it. This episode examines why some attitudes are worth adopting while others sabotage everything, and why knowing what to do is infinitely easier than actually doing it when life gets complicated.
The Active Mind Why Reading Builds Brains and Not Just Knowledge part 1
We explore why reading regularly actually builds and organizes our brains in the most beneficial way.
Micro Series: The Only Two Things
Most people believe they control dozens of aspects of their daily lives, from wake-up times to task lists. But what happens when an accident blocks the road or plans fall apart? This episode strips away the illusion of control to reveal just two things that remain constant no matter what chaos erupts around you. Once you understand what they are and how they work together, everything else about learning and moving forward starts to make sense.
The Success Foundation part 4
We finish up this series with learning how to transform our setbacks into amplifiers for our future success. Not one to be missed.
Micro Series: Always Becoming
What do toddlers, songwriters, and the cosmos have in common? They refuse to stand still. This episode challenges the idea that comfort and stability are the ultimate goals, proposing instead that the recovery phase is just preparation for the next leap forward. If everything around us is expanding and evolving, what happens when we decide we've grown enough?
The Success Foundation part 3
Do you want to know how to structure your goals to create an unstoppable momentum. We show you how in this podcast.
Micro Series: Becoming a Force of Nature: Why You Want Life to Challenge You
Smooth sailing sounds nice, but it won't get you anywhere. In this episode, we flip the script on adversity entirely by revealing why challenges are actually on your side, helping you build the problem-solving arsenal that makes you unstoppable. Learn how every roadblock becomes a new tool in your toolkit, and why the most successful people rarely take a straight line from point A to point B. Discover the mindset shift that transforms you from someone who fears obstacles to someone who welcomes them as opportunities to expand your capabilities. When you start seeing yourself as a force of...
The Success Foundation part 2
We delve into how we can use the past to hardwire ourselves for future success.
Micro Series: Mining Gold from Past Struggles
What if your biggest struggles were actually your greatest qualifications for future success? In this episode, discover the power of creating a "hardship resume" by looking back at all the challenges you've already overcome. Learn why writing down things you're grateful for isn't just feel-good advice, but brain training that develops neural circuits to spot opportunities you might otherwise walk right past. We explore how practicing gratitude literally rewires your brain to notice what's working in your favor, while reviewing your past victories reminds you of the strength you already possess. When you start viewing adversity as strength training...
The Success Foundation part 1
Let's explore why your past wins are the key to your future goals. We learn how to build on the past to create the vision for the future.
Micro Series: Shrinking Critics and Growing Your Support Team
Critics are inevitable, but letting them derail your dreams is optional. In this episode, learn the powerful visualization technique of making critics appear smaller and further away while you stay big in your own world. Discover why reading biographies of successful people who faced adversity can be one of your most valuable tools for breakthrough insights. But here's the game-changer: building a support team of people who see your potential and have your back. Learn the step-by-step approach to letting supportive people into your life gradually, testing their commitment with small steps before taking bigger ones. Since we're social...
Meaning Makers How We Create Our Reality part 4
Living as a Conscious Meaning-Maker - How New Interpretations Transform Everything
Micro Series: Catch Your Brain in the Act: Flipping the Negative Spin
Your brain believes whatever you tell it, and if you've been feeding it negative self-talk for years, it's become an expert at playing that out. In this episode, learn how to become a detective of your own thoughts, catching yourself in the moment when the mental spiral begins with "I can't do this" or "this is too much." Discover the simple but powerful technique of mental erasure and replacement that can rewire your internal dialogue. We also explore why setbacks aren't signs you should quit, but rather the world's way of showing you you're slightly off track. Master the...
Meaning Makers How We Create Our Reality part 3
The Art of Conscious Meaning-Making - How to Recreate Your Interpretations
Micro Series: The Blueprint: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Breaking Through
Is there an actual formula for overcoming adversity? Can we create a roadmap for breaking through the ceilings that limit us? In this episode, we break down the essential steps that separate those who push through from those who give up. It starts with defining your life's purpose, the fuel that motivates you when everything goes wrong. Then comes creating a vision so compelling it pulls you forward even in dark moments. But here's where most people get stuck: they have the vision but their beliefs are secretly sabotaging them. Learn how to identify those sneaky "yeah, but" thoughts...
Meaning Makers How We Create Our Reality part 2
The Sources of Meaning - Understanding Where Our Interpretations Come From
Micro Series: From Welts to Worldwide Impact: Oprah's Foundation of Pain
Before she became one of the most influential women in the world, Oprah Winfrey was a lonely child beaten so severely she had bleeding welts on her back, then punished again for staining her dress with blood. Raised in extreme poverty and neglect, she could have easily become another statistic. Instead, she discovered something powerful at age three that changed everything: the validation that came from reciting Bible verses. In this episode, we trace how Oprah transformed her deepest wounds into her greatest strengths, using years of feeling unwanted to build the empathy that would connect her to millions...
Bonus Repost: Podcast #20 - Connect Fully with Learning
Are learning can be enhanced or restricted by how fully we're able to develop rapport with the people around us. Through engaging more completely with others and with ourselves are learning can be dramatically enhanced.
Meaning Makers How We Create Our Reality part 1
The Invisible Architects - How We Unconsciously Create the Meanings That Shape Our Lives
Micro Series: Churchill's Black Dog and the Power of Never Giving In
The man voted Britain's greatest of all time started as a struggling, distracted student who felt "completely outclassed and left behind." Winston Churchill battled what he called "the Black Dog" his entire life, severe depression that brought crushing mood swings and dark periods. Yet this same man led England to victory in World War II and became an international hero. In this episode, we explore how Churchill's personal battles with his own "dark forces" gave him the deep understanding of human struggle that allowed him to inspire an entire nation. Discover why his famous words "never give in, never...
Creating Communities Engaging in Curiosity
The communities that we engage in are one of our greatest sources sparking creativity. We often have people and ideas around us that when we recognize them and make use of them can dramatically enhance our own creativity and our own learning. How to make better use of that you ask? This is the podcast for you.
Micro Series: That Voice That Says There's More
Ever since you were a kid, there's been a quiet voice inside telling you there's more out there for you. No matter what your circumstances look like, that sense persists. In this episode, we face the critical question that determines your entire life trajectory: will you keep going for that "more" or will you eventually give in? Learn how to use the outcomes you see around you as a spectrum to consciously choose where you want to land. Discover the practical steps to ensure your life and sense of yourself actually match the dreams you've been carrying since childhood...
Cross-Pollination Leads to Creativity
This is very fun podcast exploring how to enhance creativity bringing together many different perspectives on a topic. Throughout history some of the greatest breakthroughs have been in creative interplay between different perspectives and disciplines. Join us as we explore how to do this yourself.