Andrew Barry - How to Make (Online & Offline) Learning Suck Less

How They Get Stuff Done

Andrew Barry helps people teach better online. He owns and runs a training business in which he helps rapidly growing companies educate their people and their customers. Separately, he works with online course creators, helping them to create engaging cohort-based courses. Andrew also hosts his own podcast, titled “How Did You Learn That?”

Over the past few months, Andrew kept popping up on my Twitter feed. Since I sell online courses—meaning, I teach people online—many of his insights resonated with me. I’ve been interested in how to teach and how to learn better for many years.

I remember my “theory of knowledge” class in high school. In college, I was a teaching assistant for a variety of economics classes. I also worked in our college’s writing center, helping students to improve their papers. Today, of course, I am a productivity teacher. But aside from that, learning is how we grow and enjoy life more, so we should all be interested in how to learn better.

Andrew and I discuss:

• Why you want to learn from experts as well as from people who are just a little ahead of you
• How to capture and keep people’s attention in online trainings
• How he found the courage to quit his job and start his own training business

And much more. Enjoy the show!

Find Andrew:

• Curious Lion, Andrew’s online learning business
• Andrew on Twitter: @bazzaruto
• Andrew’s podcast, How Did You Learn That?

If you’re interested in Andrew’s “transformational online courses” program, just email him at [email protected] and include “TOC” in the email subject line.

Also mentioned:

• Peter’s course Big-Picture Productivity
• David Perell’s Write of Passage course