Leverage the Power of Education: Education is the key to success. Investing in furthering your education is an essential part of your path to success. You can take advantage of scholarships, grants, and other resources to get access to higher education, as well as to gain valuable skills that can help you in the long run.

That’s the official but keeping things 100. Right now we have free online educational resources from colleges like Harvard, Yale, MIT and more. Most have fully audited courses where you can watch classes given by top professors. You can find the courses by searching online for “free online <school-name> course.” (eg. “free online Harvard course”).

Evaluate your results by sorting them using the following criteria:

• Is the result a full course/class on a topic that you want to learn?
• Is the result available and useful, right now?
• Is the result from a known resource?
• Is the result truly free? If it is not free, is it affordable, unavailable elsewhere, objective and necessary?
• Whether the resource is valid or not, always take time to consider whether the information is accurate, understand the motivation of the speaker and analyze the presentation with verifiable secondary sources. Take nothing for granted and especially pay close attention to your own emotional reactions to all materials.

Be aware of the tendency to overextend the educational curve. It’s easy to go on a journey with a longterm goal and forget to manage your short-term, tactical objectives. Once a subject has been covered with enough detail, don’t be afraid to move on.

Do something with the lessons learned. Use the information in a practical way. Information without purpose is useless.