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Get More Out of Reading in 3 Easy Steps

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With back to school upon us, we are beginning a 10-part series on lifelong learning on The BIGG Success podcast by focusing reading. The summary is below.

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Summer is about over. For the kids, that means it’s time to crack the books again. But they shouldn’t have all the fun!

So we’re going to focus on lifelong learning in a 10 episode series, which we’ll kick off with the basics – the 3 R’s we learned in school – Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic. In this episode, we’ll look at how to get more out of reading.

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Do you suppose that we are reading more today than we’ve ever read before? It sure seems like it as much as many of us read online – constantly. But how much are we retaining?

Let’s go to The Professor’s Whiteboard for 3 easy ways to get more out of reading…

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A Simple Way to Develop Your Soft Skills

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Some time ago, the World Bank released a high level report called Lifelong Learning in the Global Knowledge Economy (PDF). It highlights the importance of soft skills – i.e. brains, not brawn, in today’s world. It’s the revenge of the nerds!

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While it’s written about developing countries, there’s an important reminder in the report for all of us – we need to update skills continuously. Lifelong learning is the new learning.
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