#18 - Nat Eliason on Self-Directed Learning and the Future of Education

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This week was a very interesting conversation. My guest was Nat Eliason. Nat is a writer and founder of Growth Machine, an all-around internet think-boy as he would describe himself, and really just a great proponent of self-directed, or non-traditional learning.
His career, while starting from a very traditional perspective, took a very non-traditional and self-directed turn. We dive into what that looked like for him and tease out some of the things like the transfer of skills, constructing your own curriculum, learning out loud, proof of work, and some of the key components of that journey.
What was really interesting for me about this chat was that a lot of people who know Nat and his work typically talk about writing, running an online business, growing his SEO agency Growth Machine, all those different topics, and not many people have been able to pick his brain and get his thinking which is very extensive on the topic of education. We got to do that in this conversation, in-depth, and unfiltered.
Starting with Nat's journey, we zoomed out and we looked at education in general. We started to explore some of the changes we would make to education and looked at some of the companies that could be at the forefront of this. So I think if you have any interest in education, you're going to absolutely love this conversation.
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