{"id":225,"date":"2007-02-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/23\/4-learn-something-new-ten-ways-to-improve-your-quality-of-life\/"},"modified":"2010-08-24T15:08:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T20:08:46","slug":"4-learn-something-new-ten-ways-to-improve-your-quality-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/23\/4-learn-something-new-ten-ways-to-improve-your-quality-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"4. Learn something new | Ten Ways to Improve Your Quality of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the fourth in a <a href=\"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/10-ways\/\">series of 10 articles <\/a>that give suggestions meant to improve the over-all quality of your life.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Books\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/images\/books-1.jpg?resize=400%2C270\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Books\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4. <strong>Learn something new<\/strong>. Pick a topic, preferably something you know nothing about and learn something about it. A good source of inspiration for this can be the newspaper or Wikipedia. It helps to retain it if you have time to make a note of what you learned or explain it to someone else, but even if you don&#8217;t get the chance to do that, your brain will thank you for the new patterns you introduce as you learn something new every day.<\/p>\n<p>Learning something new daily will can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Help you become a <a href=\"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/31\/how-to-have-better-conversations\/\">better conversationalist<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Keep your brain active for learning<\/li>\n<li>Enhance your creativity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve got new ideas rolling around in your head you will be surprised at the patterns that start forming. Connections will be made from seeming unrelated topics&#8211;that&#8217;s the stuff from which innovation comes. If you&#8217;re not doing it already, learn something new every day.<\/p>\n<p>If you need somewhere to start, check out the following books that I&#8217;ve found to be good inspiration for learning:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=0805078533%26tag=besttoolforth-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/0805078533%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=0805078533%26tag=besttoolforth-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/0805078533%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\">&#8220;On Intelligence&#8221; (Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=0452284392%26tag=besttoolforth-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/0452284392%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\">&#8220;Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means&#8221; (Albert-Laszlo Barabasi)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=1416531556%26tag=besttoolforth-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/1416531556%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\">&#8220;Think!: Why Crucial Decisions Can&#8217;t Be Made in the Blink of an Eye&#8221; (Michael R. LeGault)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=B0002P0EVI%26tag=besttoolforth-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/B0002P0EVI%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\">&#8220;The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter than the Few&#8221; (James Surowiecki)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;re searching for books, don&#8217;t forget to turn to the classics as well. Have you read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=0060934344%26tag=besttoolforth-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/0060934344%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\">Don Quixote<\/a>? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=067003469X%26tag=besttoolforth-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/067003469X%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\">War and Peace<\/a>? 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