What are the Core Ideas of Self-Improvement? | Scott H Young

On the other hand, learning is also a basic psychological process. Every time we change from experience, get better at anything or remember something, we're learning.

In this second sense, learning is a core concept of self-improvement. Like habits, learning has been studied in incredible detail, making it a rich source of research-driven insights into self-improvement. Some might argue that learning is the core of psychology itself.

I've spent more time writing about this core concept than anything else, in part because I feel it has often been neglected in self-improvement, perhaps because many people conflate it with studying. Learning in the first sense, of deliberate studying, is also an important tool simply because it's the means by which one can understand the other tools better, so I tend to give it priority even if other authors don't.