Exercise?
Most people know how to get in shape, physically.
You’d have to do some kind of activity. Change your eating habits.
You could also chart your progress, either in how much you could lift, or the size of your waist or your biceps.
Or if you were working on a particular sport, you could measure how well you play, either by time or by score.
Similarly, if you wanted to learn a specific subject, you could study certain books. Take certain classes. You’d measure your progress by test scores or how well you could discuss the subject.
A Meta Skill For All Meta Skills
But what if you wanted to learn how to learn?
Most people don’t even consider this is possible, let alone try and figure out how.
Luckily, learning is a skill just like any other skill. The more you practice, the better you’ll get.
So, how do you learn how to learn, and how do you measure your progress?
One way is by doing something called “cross crawling.”
Hook Up Your Brain
It’s pretty simple. You stand up and touch your left foot with your right hand, immediately followed by touching your right foot with your left hand. Then repeat with your knees and elbows.
This fires up the connections between both hemispheres, which will make soaking up new information more easily.
This IS a short term process.
It fires up existing trans-hemispherical connections, but doesn’t create new ones.
However, if you do this every ten or fifteen minutes while learning anything, or doing anything that requires some “whole brain” thinking, you’ll do much better.
What about long term results?
Long Term Brain Growth
There are also SEVERAL, proven methods to create NEW and PERMANENT connections between your hemispheres, so you’ll be more “whole brained” as your natural self.
Meaning things will seem easier, clearer, and more fun.
The results won’t be as obvious as putting on a pair of pants and feeling how loose they are.
They WILL be MUCH more subtle.
But they’ll also be much more powerful.