One of the Most Underrated Skills: Learning How to Learn

Shannel Wheeler
5 min readMay 26, 2021
A whimsical illustration represented by a montage of people learning by reading a book, holding a pencil, working on the computer.

Just ask Google. It’s one of the easiest ways to get an answer to your question. But is that really the best method to acquire knowledge?

“Googling” is an entry point, but shouldn’t be a final destination for deep learning. An observation that I’ve made over the years, now illuminated by my newfound experience as an adjunct professor, is that some people just scratch…

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Shannel Wheeler

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