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A Podcast Listening Strategy for Learning
Three steps to make the most of your podcast time
Podcasts are an excellent way to acquire new knowledge. Hosts boil hours of research down to digestible content.
Yet, while podcasts are growing into one of the largest knowledge libraries on our planet, many people are not as strategic about their listening practice.
Listening to podcasts doesn’t make you smarter per se — it’s what you pick and do with it that will make all the difference.
The following lines will give you three quick ways to make the most of any value-packed podcast you listen to.
1) Find high quality podcasts
The friction to publishing podcasts is lower than it is for publishing books. You don’t need a publisher. Anyone with a phone and internet connection can become a podcast host.
Hence the quality of podcasts varies, and most podcasts are not worth your time. But some are. Instead of choosing a podcast based on the thumbnail and title, make a short effort to find the best one for you.
You can check out charts in the category “education,” search by keyword and podcast (e.g., best podcasts for language learning), or look at a podcast curation site.
