Learning Slope

Learning Slope is the rate of learning over the course of a career. The more you can craft a deliberate learning system, the higher your learning slope over the course of your career. 

Remember y=mx + b? The variable “m” is the slope. The higher the value of “m” the “steeper” the line and the lower the value the more “shallow” the line. 

A couple different slopes to jog your memory:

y=x

y=1/3x

y=3x

I’m inventing a new concept I’m calling Learning Slope. 

Learning Slope is a measure of the rate of learning over the course of the career. 

Learning compounds. The more you learn each day, the more you can learn tomorrow. You build a foundational understanding and then build on that day after day after day. 

Over the course of a 30 year career, your Learning Slope determines how much you learn. And, if you believe, as I do, that the amount we learn is a key predictor of career success, there are few more worthy investments. Not to mention, the benefits of learning 

How do we increase our Learning Slope? 

The better we can craft a deliberate learning system (what we listen to, read and how we retain the information we’re learning), the more we can increase our Learning Slope. 

I’ll have much more to write about this over time. 

#HappyLearning