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

Christine Kane relates 17 things about creativity, including:

--Creativity is about paying attention
--The only way to learn about creativity is to create things
--Everyone has valid fears, excuses, resentments and blocks (Creativity teaches you to say 'so-what?')
-- When you’re creating something, you really GET that all of the things that are supposed to matter so much don’t matter much at all.
--Creativity is about showing up, not perfection

Soon, you may be able to download audio books to your phone:

Audio books are set to be revolutionised by a tiny card that can store up to five lengthy novels on a phone.

The card can be slotted into a mobile phone, dispensing with the need to carry up to six CDs for an audio version of a book. The technology, originally developed to store music, will be released this year by Nokia.