What is the best way to learn a language? Immerse yourself, go to the country and stay with a family or acquaintance who does not speak your language.
Pure immersion.
You will learn the language in about three months - by association.
And it has nothing to do whether you are 'good' at languages or not.
Association or immersion is how we are wired to learn Between the time of birth and three years,we learn more than at any other times in our lives.
Among other things for instance, we learn to walk talk and become aware of the fact there is something other than us, something called the world.
If a two year old's parents are multilingual so is that child.
A child is not good or bad at languages - they just absorb the language.
By association The power of association is the strongest teaching we know.
If you hang around people who are criminals - unless and until you leave that circle - you will become a criminal.
If you associate with musicians - you will become a musician.
And here's a scarier thing - if you associate only with people who earn about $20,000 a year - you will make about $20,00 a year.
By the same token, if you hang around people who make $100,000 a year - you will make about $100,000 a year.
We become who we associate with.
The guaranteed way to success is to associate with successful people.
However here is the big secret to that obvious fact, or at least the big caveat most people do not think about.
First of all be very clear as to what success means to you.
A lot of wealthy people are not necessarily successful in the rest of their lives, and certainly not all wealthy people are happy.
Also be aware many wealthy people have inherited their wealth, that is they have not created it themselves, it had been passed on or handed to them.
Wealth does not necessarily mean success, and wealth certainly does not automatically mean a life that prospers.
So the big secret, the step people forget to do? Be very clear about what success means to you.
Define it in your own terms.
And, I think, one of the best ways to do this is to worry less about the money and more about the lifestyle you wish to achieve.
In the end money is only a medium of exchange.
What do you want your money to create for you: houses, cars, all the things that glitter, freedom, control of your time, stress-free living? What is it, exactly and precisely, you are looking for? Once you have defined success in your own terms, seek out people who have created that lifestyle with their own businesses, by their own hands.
Ideally seek out successful entrepreneurs in the field you have chosen, but that is not as vital as seeking our people who have created the lifestyle you are looking for.
Seek them out and be around them as much as you can.
Most businesses have seminars, live meetings, where the people in that industry can get together and learn and network.
Go to as many of these live events as you can, invest the time to find those that are successful, talk to them introduce yourself, watch what they do, and how they handle themselves, and learn what they know.
The guaranteed way to success in any field is to define what success means to you, and then find people who have that success and then learn from them.
And you learn from them by as much as possible, being in their circle, even if that can only happen at seminars or live events.
However you can arrange it (without stalking them, of course), associate with them and who they associate with.
Find out if there is any way perhaps you can help them, because in the end, their association will lift you to your success.