Week 6 Intro: Learning Strategies | Sunday Night with Barry

Most people who are serious about their careers have put real effort into learning. Courses, certifications, books, workshops — the investment is real. But there’s a gap that often goes unexamined: the gap between knowing something and actually being able to do it well, under pressure, in…

Most people have a skill they want to develop — but no real system for actually developing it. They start a course, get busy, fall behind, and start again. The deep dive this week covered why passive learning approaches fall short and which methods the research shows actually work: retrieval…

At some point, you’ve probably done a values exercise. Maybe in a workshop, a coaching session, or an online quiz. You were given a list of words — integrity, achievement, creativity, family, adventure — and asked to circle the ones that felt right. You picked five. You felt okay about them.…

One of the most important insights from the deep dive is that your skills are broader and more transferable than your job history suggests — but you can’t use what you haven’t named. This exercise takes you through a structured 45-minute audit of your real capabilities: the paid work,…