10 Best Tools to Set Up a Micro-Learning Habit

Artem Zavyalov
Go Highbrow
3 min readAug 30, 2015

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There are so many benefits of learning something new daily — from increasing life satisfaction to having a conversation starter. Studies even indicate that confidence and happiness increases as you learn new things.

I am challenging anyone and everyone to pick one of the tools I listed below, and try to learn something new for the next 30 days so you can get a taste of these benefits.

Highbrow

Highbrow is a free bite-sized email courses delivered to your inbox every morning. All courses are 10 day long and the subjects range from Art and History to Science and Philosophy.

Listenable

Love listening to podcasts? Then you’ll fall in love with audio courses on Listenable! Want to learn communication skills and level up your social game? Or are you on a health kick and looking to learn more about fitness? Whatever you’re into, there’s an audio course for you on Listenable.

With the Listenable, you can enjoy 5-minute audio lessons while commuting, exercising, or walking the dog. You can choose from over 3,000+ original audio lessons created by well-loved experts.

Easy Ten

Easy Ten is an app to learn any language with ten words a day.

Curious Peoples

Curious Peoples is an email newsletter that helps you expand your general knowledge every day. Each morning, wake up to a new 5-minute email, and learn about art, history, and science while enjoying your coffee.

Primer

Primer is a mobile app with 5-minutes marketing lessons. With Primer you can learn new topics quickly, get practical advice, and even refresh yourself on marketing basics.

Hardbound

Hardbound is 5-minute, illustrated stories based on the most fascinating books in business, history, and science.

Drops

Drops is the language app that doesn’t let you learn more than 5 minutes per day.

Mainichi

Mainichi is Google Chrome extension to learn Japanese each time you open a new tab.

Alcamy

Alcamy is a free, open self-learning platform. Learn & teach anything.

Blinkist

Blinkist is a tool that transforms nonfiction books into powerful packs you can read in just 15 minutes.

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