The Online Education Database lists 77 ways to learn things faster, better, and deeper, including:

• Eat breakfast
• Take a hike
• Change your focus
• Turn off the lights
• Brainmap it
• Use information design
• Brainstorm
• Write, don't type
• Motivate yourself
• Read as much as you can
• Cross-pollinate your interests
• Tell stories
• Learn by experience
• Persist