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What is the most powerful way of learning something? How can you engage your brain fully into a topic, tie it into your own experiences, and look at it from lots of different angles?

This is the topic of today's episode. We have now done one year of podcasting and we will talk about the most important thing we have learned - how to learn, a very powerful method for learning. -- Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to grow as a person.

We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from. -- We are starting this episode with Erik talking about how he has spent the last 3-4 years dedicated to learning about social media, personal development, leadership, and social skills.

At first, he was very focused on consuming as much knowledge as possible but it was first when he started teaching what he had learned on Instagram that things shifted. He got to embody the concepts and found that some of them he believed in and some of them made him feel like a fraud.

We keep exploring why teaching is a very powerful method for learning, how it engages our body and our emotions, and why everything you have been teaching will be easier for you to remember.

We sum up this episode with various ways of teaching, what you can do if you don't want to put yourself out there as a teacher in public or on social media but still benefit from this technique and what are the important things to get started.

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We want to teach you how to make $1000 a month online because we believe that if you had that extra money, you would have a lot less worry in your life. $1000 extra a month is enough to solve most money problems.

Today there are more opportunities to make money online than ever, you just have to know where to look. In this episode, Emil Ekvardt interviews Erik Bergman, who made over $50 million online, before he turned 30 and he will give you the exact steps you need to take to start making $1000 a month online.

Part 1 We will share a story about a friend of ours who went from 0 to $1000 per month and what made him succeed.

Part 2 We will talk about the most important ingredient to succeed when learning a new skill.

Part 3 Is about how you find the best skill for you and how you learn it.

Part 4 Is about how you start making money from the skill and how you can sell it.

-- Today's episode is an entrepreneurship episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to become a better business person.

We are often sharing real-life examples that have happened previously in our careers. What we have learned, whom we have learned from, and how we have applied that into our real lives. Everything in a mix with personal thoughts and reflections. --

We start the episode with the story about Felix. A friend of ours who went from 0 to $1000 per month when studying. We get to follow the steps that he took and what made him stand out from other people who tried. What were the elements of his success?

Then we move on to talk about the importance of having fun when learning a new skill. It's easy to forget fun when trying to make money, but the truth is that if you can find something you enjoy and make money from it, not only will you like it more - you will get a lot better at it.

Thirdly we go in what skills to learn to make $1000 a month online. We talk about different topics to learn. Based on what you enjoyed in school, this is a list for inspiration:

Math classes Programming, start with "Python" Web development, "Wordpress for beginners" Accounting, start with "IFRS" Spreadsheets, start with "learn excel" Web analytics, "google analytics for beginners" Facebook ads, "beginner Facebook ads"

The music or art classes Create thumbnails, "thumbnails photoshop" Content for social media, start with "canva beginner" Audio editing, start with "podcast editing" Video editing, "video editing"

Language classes Copywriting (all kinds of writing online), "write product descriptions" Copywriting, "SEO copywriter" Subtitles for videos, "kapwing subtitles" Translations, "start a translation business"

The social parts / Recess Recruitment, "LinkedIn recruitment" Sales, "cold email sales" Coaching, "start a coaching business"

Finally we talk about how to turn the skills that you have learned into money. How you can sell it and start making $1000 a month online.

Link to recommended episode:

"Find inspiring people in social media" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaSVVSnZ9kg

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In school, we don't get to learn social skills. No one teaches us what mistakes not to make. When Erik was young, he was a lonely child with very few friends. He always thought it was just bad luck and never understood why.

A few years ago he started reading about social skills and how to interact with others and it opened a world of new knowledge. More than anything, he could see all the mistakes he had done when he was younger. For the first time, he realized that it wasn't bad luck that made him lonely, it was mistakes that he did.

If you want to know how to make more friends at school? or how to make more friends at work? this is a great episode for you. -- Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to grow as a person.

We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from. -- This is another spontaneous and very vulnerable episode. We are diving into Erik's childhood and emotions. We are starting by getting an understanding of what Erik's life looked like as a 10-12-year-old, how it changed when he moved to another school as a teenager, and what he learned when he started learning about social skills.

"How to make more friends in school?" was one of the questions he tried to understand early and "How to make more friends at work?" is something he is now teaching. After years of diving deep into social skills and personal relationships, this is now one of his core interests and something he loves talking about and learning more about.

Did you get to learn about social skills when you went to school? Did someone teach you how to interact with others and feel confident?

One of the problems with the school system is that it doesn't focus on the skill that might be the most important of all, social skills. How to feel more confident talking to new people? How to feel less nervous in social situations?

Today we are diving into the challenges that we have had in our social life. This episode is focused on exploring Emil's struggles with feeling nervous and awkward around new people and social situations. What he did to come over it, how long it took and what are his best tips to learn social skills. -- Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to grow as a person.

We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from. -- This episode was spontaneous and unplanned. We wanted to keep the conversation as real and genuine as possible and instead of planning, we dove into it. The focus became on exploring how Emil locked himself into a bubble of online poker for 10 years and during this time just stayed in his comfort zone.

When his girlfriend broke up with him he had to start socializing with others and found that he couldn't even talk to women. He asked himself "How to feel less nervous in social situations?" and "How to feel more confident talking to new people?"

He started challenging himself, growing his comfort zone, had friends to learn together with, and went from being socially challenged to someone who now loves social situations, meeting new people, and values his social skills as one of his main talents.

A great leader makes people excited to move in a certain direction. A great leader makes everyone around them better and more confident.

One of the most powerful ways to do that, is by becoming good at showing appreciation. It costs nothing and it can be remembered forever.

Today's episode is about Powerful leadership skills with focus on appreciation leadership skill.

The episode is split up in four parts:

Part 1: Appreciation is a skill that you can study to learn

Part 2: What is most powerful, appreciation or bonuses?

Part 3: Tips on how to show appreciation, that you most likely haven't heard before.

Part 4: How are we applying appreciation as a part of Great.com

-- Today's episode is an entrepreneurship episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to become a better business person.

We are often sharing real life examples that have happened previously in our careers. What we have learned, who we have learned from and how we have applied that into our real lives. Everything in a mix with personal thoughts and reflections. -- Powerful leadership skills and specifically appreciation leadership skill.

In the first part of the episode we are exploring what appreciation is. If it is a skill that you can learn and who you would have learned it from if you are good at it already. If you are not good at appreciation, who's fault it that?

In the second part we dive into how appreciation and compliments work as a motivator for work. How do positive feedback and showing gratitude compare to giving financial bonuses? What is it that makes appreciation so powerful and what is it about money that makes it work or not?

The third part is about what happens if you don't show appreciation and how that impacts your team. We also look into what are some very efficient ways to show appreciation and how can you learn to do it very well?

Finally we round the episode off by talking about how we apply this knowledge in building Great.com. What are we doing to increase motivation and morale in the team by using appreciation.

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