More To Learn

After 7 years of podcasting as a duo, I'm now podcasting solo. It's going to take a little while to work out this transition, so if you're listening now - thank you... and please stick with me!

I reached out to two people I've viewed as mentors over the years, two blokes who are authors slash podcasters slash speakers slash educators... slash slash slash... a few years ahead of me on the journey. I asked them their advice on solo podcasting, some traps to watch out for, and what they recommend I do to make this new thing work.

Check out the guys and their shows here:

Steve Glaveski: https://www.steveglaveski.com/

Future Squared: https://www.nofilter.media/podcast/future-squared

Owen Fitzpatrick: https://owenfitzpatrick.com/

Changing Minds: https://owenfitzpatrick.com/changing-minds-podcast/

Derek Sivers is one of my favourite people to learn form. Check him our here: https://sive.rs/

In this episode, we nerd out on all things books. We speak about why he reads books, how he picks what to read next, why he recommends some books and doesn't recommend others. But my favourite part is how he determines what makes a GOOD book and what makes a GREAT book. It's simple yet eye opening.

What should we do in order to get the most out of our lives? How shold we behave to maximise our outcomes? What is the BEST way to live?

Derek Sivers tells us just that. In his book 'How To Live', he shares exactly how we should live. Except... There isn't just one answer... there are 27. Each chapter answers the question 'how should I live my life', but while each one is emphatic adn 100% correct, each one is also totally different.

In this episode, I take my favourite pieces of life advice from Derek Sivers and share them a black-and-white, all-or-nothing instructions and what you should do in order to live a good life. You can either view these as menu items at your favouite restaurant where you pick one to eat for dinner, or, you can view them as ingredients to cook up your own dish from scratch.

I highly recommend buying yourself a copy of How To Live direct from Derek Sivers's website: https://sive.rs/h

My name is Adam Ashton and i'm kind of addicted to learning… Instead of going to some 12 step program, I've decided to fuel this addiction.

I started my learning journey in 2015 when I read 10books. In 2016 it was 30, and every year since it's been around 60 to 70 books a year… I cant get enough!

I started sharing the best bits from the best books on the What You Will Learn podcast where my cohost Adam Jones and I did over 400 episodes in 7 years.

I've written 5 books as well, most notably Attitude in 2023 and The Shit They Never Taught You in 2021.

But more importantly, while I'm continuing my learning journey, I want to help play a part in YOUR learning journey as well. In this podcast, I'm going to be sharing cool ideas from books, interviewing some of the world's greatest authors, answering your questions, and who knows what other experimental episode formats we might try along the way.

Check out the new website at moretolearnpod.com - it will be the home of podcast episodes, blog posts, and an opportunity for you to get in touch or send in a voice memo. I'd love to get an audio message from you - send in a book recommendation, ask for a book recommendation for a specific problem you're facing, ask for some advice, recommend an author I should get in touch with, or just share what you think I'm doing well and what I could be doing better.

There will be a new episode every week, because there's always More To Learn…