Learn-Create-Share — 3 Life Skills You Want To Master

If I could teach my child one lesson to thrive in this blue planet, it would be to master these three essential skills: learn, create, and share.

Think about it—our daily lives revolve around these three activities, whether we realize it or not. We learn by scrolling through endless articles, videos, or social media posts, often passively absorbing information without truly retaining it. We create—from emails to presentations, to-do lists, or quick fixes at work. We share by posting on social media, forwarding messages, tell stories, or speaking in meetings and forums.

This cycle of unconscious learning, mediocre creating, and thoughtless sharing can leave us feeling stuck, uninspired, or even replaceable. Many of us go through life on autopilot, following the crowd and accepting “that’s just how the world works.”

What if we could approach these three skills with intention and mastery? What if we could stand out by learning purposefully, creating meaningfully, and sharing powerfully?

Mastering these skills can transform your life...

1# The Skill of Learning

Learning is something that we naturally do. From the moment we’re born, we learn—how to talk, walk, and understand the world around us. As we grow, our brain develops, our awareness expands, and our understanding deepens. The good news is we learn naturally. But, the bad news is also because we do learning naturally, we never think that “learning” could be improved. We think it is just the way it is, and we’re gonna missed the most out of it.

Understand how you learn, how brain and memory work

Before you learn everything else, start learn about this first. Learning effectively is a task that many adults never master. You need to go through a metacognitive process first, look inside first.

It is a metacognitive process. To understand this, you need to look back, self-reflect, and wake up your awareness. Learn how you usually learn something, and do evaluate: is it effective? what methods did I use? what worked the best for me? what didn't work? how do brain actually works? Why do I remember something so briefly, while others I can retain for an extended period? You’ll be surprise that learning is more than just read things and memorize it.

I totally had a different mindset and approach toward the way I learn something, once I learned those questions above. 

One think I learned for myself is that, when it comes to difficult topics, I learn by rewriting it on my own. I read watch or listen, then I rewrite my understanding on a paper (digitally or physically). By doing that, the information sticks longer on my brain.

Learn by making my own analogy is also helpful. So when I receive an information, and it is hard to plainly grasp the concept, I usually tried to make sense of it by finding an analogy that represents the same concept. Or ask to your teacher or mentor, what would be the best analogy that can help me understand this concept? Analogy help us find the gap between our existing knowledge and try to connect it with the new concept. Interesting isn't it? Why it works? You need to digging more on how our brain and memory works.

One other think that really work for me is called "spaced repetition" learning. This is interesting method to learn, and make it stick longer on your memory. So instead of go invest all your time to read a book at once. Try to read it quickly, break, then revisit it tomorrow, then break again, then revisit it again. We need to put space, and we need repitition. Why this works? again it has to do with how our neuron and synapses in our brain works.

Another technique is called "focused and diffuse thinking". When you learn something and get frustrated, sometimes when you give a break, step back and do other things (this process is called diffusion), then when you comeback sometimes everything is just looks easier, and suddenly it just make sense. In reality when you diffuse from the topic, your brain is not simply forget it, it actually doing some work in the background. You can digging more on this technique...

Do not be rush in learning everything, consume everything, scroll scroll scroll, play this video, play that video. You'll just throw information on your short-term memory, then forget it a day later. Don’t "just learn" something, learn effectively.

Learn with purpose

Your life age would never enough to learn everything in this fascinating world. If you could quickly find your area of expertise, passion, or something that really spark the fire within you, the better. You can start maximize your time and effort to learn on those things, instead of scrolling around social media. Learn purposefully. 

Have a growth mindset

Understand that your capabilities and intellegence is not fixed is important. You learn to grow. Pursue learning and progress is more important than set your believe in a "final report" that says you failed. Growth mindset individuals are not afraid to learn something and making progress. Mistakes and failures are part of the process to grow, as long as you take the lessons learned from them.

2# The Skill of Creating

Creating is where learn meets action. Learning and creating are two sides of the same coin. The more you learn, the more equipped you are to create.

Creating is the process of solidifying your learning. Both learning and creating go hand in hand. Those who love to create something novel are called creative people.

But sometimes creative people have the "mood" problem. We only create when "we feel" like we want to create. Too many things we want to create. We want to be many thing. Master everything.

There are some significant differences between mediocre creators and the pros. Lets digging more on it...

Watchout your hobbies

You might love to do many things. You might have five hobbies. I will suggest pick one thing you enjoy the most, then take it seriously. When you're clear on your one most hobby, think about how to get serious and how about make money out of it. Dont just do your hobby to waste time. While you enjoy doing it, why dont make a fortune out of it?

What I learned is that as you grow older, you dont have much times to take care of all your hobbies. Pick one or two at most.

Professional creators takes their hobby to become their business.

Treat your hobby as an investment that will return income later, not as a total expenses that lost forever.

Mastering one thing

Wether you're good at code, writing, crafting, speaking, counting, dancing, or thinking... focus on that one thing first. Master that first. Monetize that first, before you move to other things.

Spend your young energy and time to master that one thing. Find informations, browsing, ask AI, find mentors, connect with people have the same passion with you.

Before you invest your time on anything else, ask yourself: have I found my expertise area? have I mastered it?

Consistency beats intencity

Aim for consistency not intencity. Consistently take 15 minutes to write everyday is more powerful than 4 hours per two months. The more you consistently iterate on a process, you become better at it.

When creating something, sometimes we deal with muscle memory. Muscle memory needs repeated practices. Do it again and again and again, until you master it. How many times you repeat the practice is more important than how long the practice is.

Before you become creative creator you need to consistently create first, and it takes discipline to become consistent. Many great innovators emphasize that creativity isn’t just about random bursts of inspiration—it’s about consistently showing up daily, putting in the work, and refining ideas over time again and again.

Make it easy to begin creating

Sometimes the heaviest part that hinders us from creating is "to begin". Sometimes it feels really hard to just begin. There are hundreds of excuses that we can use to lye on ourself, just so that we can procrastinate.

James Clear mention in his Atomic Habits book that instead of focusing solely on goals, we should focus on systems. A system is essentially a structure that makes a habit easier to follow, reducing reliance on your motivation and willpower. Do not trust your yearly wishful goals. Do not rely on your todo lists. You will not doing it if you don't make yourself doing it. The smarter approach is to create a system and design an environment to "push" your body do the work. To become a creative and consistent creator, you need to have a system that works for you.

Create a system that makes you feel easy to "begin" create. An example of a system would be a fixed daily alarm every 5AM that would wake you up create something. A template that opened-ready for you to fill out, so you can just easily follow the template. Have a buddy, your friend or mentor, that will check on your progress periodically. Have a daily gallery capture everyday progress posted in your Instagram highlights. The rule of "1 paragraph" a day. Make up your work table and chair, make sure it is clean and neat, ready for you. Invest in tools that make it easy to create. Hang a poster of your admired figure near your work desk to make you stay motivated.

Do anything possible you can so you can easily "begin to create". Yes, that's the aim: just to begin. The rest will be easier.

3# Sharing

It is our instinct as social creatures to share. After you create something, the satisfaction comes when you share it. It feels rewarding when you share your creation. It is like a chain reaction: after you share, it makes you want to create more to keep sharing.

The willingness to share is a crucial thing that makes the human race keep moving forward. Can you imagine where would we be, if Newton or Einstein or Tesla felt shy and wouldn't share their theories to world? What if those great people did not publish their books, papers, or journals?

By sharing, we influence or inspire other people. We also get a sense of fulfillment.

I love the term “fruitful.” When you share your knowledge, creations, and ideas, you become fruitful. Others can taste the benefits of your work, apply your insights, and live better, more effective lives. And when you feel fruitful to others, you experience a sense of fulfillment and purpose. Who wouldn’t want that?

Here are my lessons learned in sharing...

"Wait for perfection" fallacy.

You will be always "the work in progress". The waiting for perfection is an illusion. Every progress is worth sharing, either small or significant.

If I wait until I become a book writer to write the blog post, I don’t think it will ever happen.

Start to appreciate progress and effort over the final destination. Progress is declared when you start to share the journey.

Don't just show it. Tell a story about it.

When you share information in the form of a story or anecdote, it becomes more memorable. Our brains are wired to remember stories, making the shared knowledge stick. Don’t just throw information at people—help them understand.

Tailor your message, tie an authentic story to it. Unpack the why, the journey, and the outcome. Reveal your story behind your craft.

Wrap Up

Mastering the skills of learning, creating, and sharing will set you apart in life.

These three pillars feed into each other, creating a cycle of growth and impact. You learn to create. You create to share. And you share to inspire and teach others to do the same.

Start today—learn something new, create something consistently, and share it with the world.

Let’s be fruitful together in life.