You Can Easily Become A Knowledgeable Person (With This Learning Approach)

Ever wish to be more well-rounded, knowledgeable, or well-informed about the world around you? Not sure how get there? Some people use a certain technique that allows them to constantly learn and become knowledgeable on numerous topics. These curious people (whether they know it or not) use a technique dubbed “rotating curiosity.”

Rotating curiosity^[1] happens when interests, curiosities, or passions constantly change. This means that what interested someone six months ago might no longer be interesting today. No, it’s not a mental health disorder. It’s actually a sign of a very creative mind!

For some people with rotating curiosity, making career or life decisions can be difficult. Due to constantly changing interests, one day you may think that you have found your dream job only to lose interest in six months to a year. Although it can be frustrating at times, people with rotating curiosity can be extremely knowledgeable on many widely varied topics. Want to be successful in many different areas of life? All it takes is organizing your ideas and a little motivation.

How Rotating Curiosity Makes you Knowledgeable

Passion for a certain topic creates a hunger to learn everything there is to know about that topic. Endless research, studying, questioning, and executing that knowledge is a result of rotating curiosity. However, once interest for that topic fizzles, another passion is tackled and the process repeats itself. This results in gaining a huge amount of knowledge, skills, and experience in life and even gaining the upper hand when it comes to work experience or being extremely successful in certain niches or career fields.

Set goals

One of the most boring but best things you can do when starting any new endeavor is to set goals.^[2] There is much evidence that goals are key to success.^[3] It helps to keep your eyes on the prize. Setting goals clarifies how and why you want to use rotating curiosity to have a brighter mind. They help you stay focused throughout the process.

Find topics that interest you

Who wants to learn about macromolecules and cell biology? Someone interested in biology of course, but if you don’t have an interest in learning about biology you won’t study it. If you aren’t interested in a topic, you won’t take the time to learn more about it. Find something that sparks your interest and motivates you to study it. That’s the essence of rotating curiosity and ultimately the core of being a knowledgeable person.

Learn from experts

Do you know anyone that is really good at something you’re interested in? Go ask them about it! Many people who are passionate about their expertise are more than willing to share what it takes to be knowledgeable about that topic. Most people love to gush about their passion. That equals free, expert knowledge for you.

Studying and following experts on the internet is also a great way to learn. Great platforms such as Facebook, Youtube, and especially Google make it easy to study experts, follow them, and learn what exactly makes them knowledgeable and successful.

Forget career ladders

The classic approach to being successful in a career is climbing the good old career ladder. “Start from the bottom and work your way to the top” is how many people look at success, but sometimes having skills in many different career fields or niches can prepare you to be even more successful.

If you want to go into a solid career field like healthcare or engineering then staying for the long haul is probably the best way to go, but if you’re unsure of which career you’d like having multiple careers could work in your favor. By gaining a diverse set of skills and experiences you are developing abilities that not many people have. This gives you the advantage when you do want to settle on a solid career path making you more successful in the long run.

Track your progress

Tracking progress lets you see results. Results are what motivate any human being. They also create a drive to work harder to see even more results!

There are many ways to track progress whether it’s what you’re learning, your income, or how you interact with people. Excel spreadsheets are popular and so are apps. There are countless free apps like GoalsOnTrack or Irunurun that help track progress. Once you start seeing that your hard work is paying off you’ll want to stick with it and maybe even tackle the next goal!

Start learning with rotating curiosity!

With these tricks and tools, there’s nothing stopping you from becoming a more knowledgeable person. By setting goals, becoming an expert on a topic that interests you, executing your new skills, and then starting over with a new topic, rotating curiosity could be what you need to be successful at whatever you want. Pretty soon, people will be coming to you for expert knowledge and skills.