Episode 323: Highbrow
In this episode, Fiona introduces a tool called Highbrow, an online education hub that delivers daily five-minute lessons on various topics. Fiona also shares her experience with Highbrow's free trial, highlights the range of subjects covered, and discusses the benefits of bite-sized learning. Tune in!
Topics discussed in this episode:
Introduction
Signing up for the 30-day free trial and the option to subscribe yearly
Exploring different courses on Highbrow
Benefits of receiving daily lessons for continuous learning
The opportunity for experts to become teachers on Highbrow
Affordable and accessible education through platforms
Conclusion
Get in touch with My Daily Business Coach
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Welcome to episode 323 of the My Daily Business Podcast. Today is a quick tip episode, and if you are somebody who feels a little behind or maybe somebody who's just super curious, then today is a tool that is going to help you. If you're new to this podcast, these quick tip episodes are where I share a tip tool or tactic that you can implement immediately in your business. They're usually 10 minutes or less. Just quick bites that are impactful. Before we get stuck into that, I want to acknowledge the traditional owners and custodians of this land on which I record this podcast. And that is the Wurrung and Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. And I pay my respects to their elders, past, and present, and acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded. Let's get into today's quick tip episode.
If you have worked with me and if you have been reading this podcast for some time, you'll know that I am quite a curious person. I like to learn. I am always looking for different ways to improve things. I'm quite curious in general about the world. I'm curious about cults, I'm curious about cakes, I'm curious about all sorts of things, not just business related. I came across this tool recently and I've signed up for it. I haven't started paying for it yet. I'm still in their 30-day trial and I wanted to share it because I'm finding it useful at the moment. The tool is called Highbrow, and you can find it just at gohighbrow.com, we'll link it in the show notes. Highbrow is an online education hub where you put your email address in and you get sent these quick lessons and they can be lessons about anything.
They can be relationships, psychology, marketing digital business, and anything you can choose the different topics that you're interested in. I'm on the 30-day free trial. You can go onto the actual desktop version, gohighbrow.com, and you can just start a course immediately. You can also sign up if you wanted to just go full throttle straight away, and I think it's about $60 US for the whole year. That's nothing like $5 a month for what you're potentially getting. You can go onto the desktop and just start doing the courses, or you can just sign up through your email, put in what you're interested in, or just leave it random and see what they send you. And then every day you get sent a five-minute lesson and that's delivered straight into your inbox.
If you are somebody who is thinking, I'd like to know a bit more about psychology because maybe you're in a space that you feel like that would be helpful in my business. Maybe you're an interior designer, but you think a lot of what you do in therapy with people and their marriages and making sure that you're creating this beautiful home for them and what a home means to them and how they want to feel in their home and how do they want to feel with their family and all these things. You might go, getting some lessons on psychology, I think that would help me in my business, but I don't necessarily want to go and pay to study that. This can potentially help you. Likewise, maybe you are somebody who would like to get a little bit more of an understanding of nutrition.
Maybe you work with people in some health capacity, or maybe you work with people who are burnt out. You are thinking, if I knew a little bit more about nutrition, not to say you're becoming a nutritionist or somehow taking away from nutritionists and what they do, but just a little bit more of an understanding about it. If you want to know more about that then you get sent these lessons. The other part of this is if you are somebody who is an expert in their field in whatever it is, you can actually sign up to become a teacher on this as well. You can sign up, create your 10 lessons, and those go out. If people decide to do a course from the ones that I've looked at so far, it looks as if most of those courses have about 10 lessons in them.
The 10 lessons might be five minutes each or 10 minutes each. Essentially you're getting an hour or a little bit more. But I think what happens with learning is that it's like so many things in life compounded learning helps over time. Instead of thinking, I don't have an hour to sit down and watch a full hour of somebody's video and then take it all in, and if I do, I'm half distracted versus getting these little bite-sized pieces over the course of 10 days, that may well compound your learning and knowledge and understand better than if you had just sat down and watched a whole one hour video. According to their website, they have a roundabout 2 million enrollments so far. They have 400,000 people as members and 250 plus courses.
Some of the courses that they highlight as featured courses are 10 Days to a Better Relationship, and Handling Difficult People. Everyone needs that. How to be good at stress negotiation skills, Understanding Meditation, Investing Money for Beginners, and Introduction to Design Thinking. There's so much there. And the categories of the courses are very varied. Business science, psychology, photography, productivity, history, languages, health and fitness, computer science, coding, writing, and social science, I am somebody who is a lifelong learner. I love learning. I'm very curious and I just think that it's awesome to have these platforms that do offer free. As I said, it's a 30-day trial. However, most of us have a few email addresses these days, I'm sure if you wanted to do a three-month trial, you could just start with one email address, put in the next email address, put in the third one, and have three months of it.
If you wanted to sign up, from what I've seen, it's about $60 US for the year, which is only about $5 US for the month, which I think is affordable for education and learning. I've mentioned quite a few platforms where you can get free education on this podcast. This is another one, as I said, you can find all about it at gohighbrow.com and the link to that in the show notes for this episode, which you'll be able to find over at mydailybusiness.com/podcast/323. Thank you so much for reading. If you do go over and check out Highbrow and do a course and find it useful, please come and let me know because I'd like to know which other courses I should be checking out. You can reach us out on Instagram @mydailybusiness_, on TikTok @mydailybusiness or just email us at hello@mydailybusiness.com. Thanks for reading.
