Learn something new everyday !!

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Yes, I have a way by which you can learn something new every day and it will take less than 10 minutes.

Before I explain how, we must ponder over the question, why we should learn something new? The answer is very simple, explorations. Great ideas are generally a combination of different ideas that were meant to solve different problems. If you limit yourself within the box, then how are you going to think outside the box. Different topics would not only increase your knowledge but would also increase your knowledge in different verticals and who knows when this can come handy.

Like the way Steve Jobs put it: “I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography.”

Now let’s jump to the main point. One of the way to learn new stuff is that you make https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random URL as your homepage. This is a Wikipedia webpage link and what it does is that it redirects to a different web page every time you click on the link. This means that if you set this as your home page, every day when you open your browser you would be presented with a brand-new Wikipedia page. Woohoo!! The best thing about Wikipedia pages are that most of them are very small. Even the large one’s won’t take more than 10 minutes. So, by spending 5–10 minutes on a daily basis you can learn something new. The Wikipedia links takes care of presenting you with different pages, so you don’t have to think about new topics.

There could be multiple ways by which you can learn new stuff but one of the big advantage of Wikipedia page is that you don’t have to do anything new in your daily routine. Most of us start our work day on computer or interact with computer (mobile phone) in some way on a daily basis. So by adding a bookmark or changing the home page, we can easily develop a habit of learning something everyday without consciously making an effort. This habit can later evolve in learning something that is more concrete.

Happy Learning!!