SMART Learning for the Age of AI

A Potent Learning Engine

Your brain, with its 80 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections, serves as a potent learning engine, ready to facilitate your growth and development.

Time to Upgrade your Brain’s Learning “Software”

Is your brain equipped with the latest learning software to tackle the demands of upskilling, re-skilling, and personal evolution in today’s dynamic work and life landscape? Draw on our award-winning adult learning expertise and get the benefit of insights from neuroscience, learning and development psychology, and years of leadership in corporate learning and development.

It’s Time to Upgrade Your Brain’s Learning Software

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SMART Learning 4.0 — a Learning Upgrade for Our Times

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Curiosity, Your Starting Point for a Life of Learning and Fulfillment

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Your Brain Goes Through 7 Phases When You Deliberately Learn

Know how to turbocharge each brain learning phase:

1. Hear the Call – direct your attention

2. Create Future Pull – for a motivating vision

3. Search – find experiences for learning

4. Connect the Dots – expose patterns to integrate your learning

5. Mine for Gold – process information in your short term memory

6. Learn to Last – change neurons and their connections for future use

7. Transfer to Life – change habits and remove barriers to use

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Learning 4.0 is your fourth great brain update, building on what your were born with (1.0), what you learned about learning at school (2.0), and the ad hoc skills for meeting adult challenges (3.0). 4.0 is brain and adult development science-based. Ready to use to co-evolve yourself with technology and these uncertain times.

The Book

The best from brain science, developmental psychology, and adult learning – condensed into practical tips and tools.

Part 1: The New Learning Landscape

Part 2: Seven Practices of 4.0 Learners

Part 3: Learning as Love

Part 4: The Learning 4.0 Toolkit

Words from the Wise

“Pat McLagan says that the way the world works is changing—it’s more connected and complex—and that learning 4.0 is the upgrade for surviving and thriving in this nonstop world. She’s right. This book is not old stuff redone; it is new, brilliant, helpful thinking about learning.”

—Julie O’Mara Diversity and Inclusion Author and Consultant

“Many books overpromise and underdeliver, but this book is not one of those! Unstoppable You helped me understand how the brain works, how to stay motivated, and how to apply the seven learning 4.0 practices in nearly every area of my life. This book is a must-have for anyone who wants to maximize their time and increase their quality of life.”

—Martin Illetschko Business Partner, Xcel Energy

 “….synthesizes the latest insights from neuroscience, psychology, adult development, and trans- formative learning to help readers upgrade and retool for the next century. Her seven-practice framework is supported by advice and tried-and-true tools that will open the door to sustainable learning for you and the teams you lead!”

--Victoria J. Marsick Professor and Academic Director, Adult Learning & Leadership, Columbia University Teachers College

 “…4.0 learning is a breakthrough concept for leadership success in the 21st century. The book is a gem, featuring solid concepts with very practical tools for becoming a 4.0 learner. This is a must- read for leaders.

—Noel Tichy Professor, University of Michigan, Author, Succession

 “….. life-changing learning advice and tools in this book for those who want to strengthen their self-managed learning muscle…. a must-have for business leaders and professionals, as well as any adult eager to redefine how learning can and does happen.”

—Steve Campbell Vice President, Organizational Development, UPS

 “I can think of nothing more valuable than to teach people that learning is a lifelong process, because that’s how our brains are wired. Unstoppable You breaks down the research on how we best learn, both from our internal and external world, to apply the findings to our own lives in a user-friendly manner.”

—Dan Radecki Chief Scientific Officer, The Academy of Brain-Based Leadership

 “..a great resource that guides us in processing and deciphering information in a positive way. It will help those of us who are part of the younger generation propel our status in school, the workplace, and life.”

Lauren Cozza, Executive Assistant

 “As a strong advocate of lifelong learning and the reality that the world is moving at a rapid pace, Patricia McLagan helps us navigate the learning landscape with pragmatic practices and tools to guide us through the age of connectivity.”

—Annette Clayton CEO and President, Schneider Electric North America

 “This important and timely book places the responsibility for adult learning where it should be, squarely on the individual. Unstoppable You provides the motivation and tools to become an efficient and effective learner in the 21st century. It should be given to participants in learning centers everywhere.”

—Jack Phillips Chairman, ROI Institute

 “….. life-changing learning advice and tools in this book for those who want to strengthen their self-managed learning muscle…. a must-have for business leaders and professionals, as well as any adult eager to redefine how learning can and does happen.”

--Martha Soehren, Former Chief Talent Development Officer, COMCAST Cable

 “With Unstoppable You, Patricia McLagan focuses on making us all successful in the ever-more complex multidimensional world in which we live and work. It is an essential read for the novice and the professional with advance- ment in their future.”

—Dr.James Howe Neurosurgeon

 “… research insights and valuable tools and methods for a new attitude and relationship to learning that is specifically designed for our times of constant change. What a gift to individuals who recognize this need, and to mentors and coaches who strive to support a lasting change.”

—Magdalena N. Mook CEO and Executive Director, International Coach Federation

“… helps us all prepare for and navigate the future workplace. The concept of adopting a learning 4.0 mindset and making learning your daily habit is critically important to staying employable.”

—Jeanne C. Meister Co-Author, The Future Workplace Experience

 “…. a masterful job of merging the latest in brain science and neurolearning to provide a blueprint for developing a 4.0 learning mindset. I highly recommend Unstoppable You to anyone interested in becoming their own career advocate and a successful lifelong learner in today’s competitive and global landscape.”

—Kenneth Nowack Chief Research Officer, Envisia Learning; Co-Author, Clueless: Coaching People Who Just Don’t Get It

 “Patricia McLagan’s ability to take something apart and put it together in an exciting and understandable way brings each chapter to life. Unstoppable You is a must-have for anyone who wants to stay on the cutting edge. The possibilities for what you could do with these ideas are endless.”

—Beverly Kaye, Author, Love ’Em or Lose ’Em and Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go
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The SMARTInside App

Be an Unstoppable Learner 24/7

  • Unlock insights to enhance brainpower, efficiency, and effectiveness.
  • Seamlessly integrate learning into your daily life, 24/7.
  • Achieve reskilling, upskilling, habit change, and career success.
  • Optimize deliberate learning opportunities, including online reading, courses, coaching, and more.

Are you a Talent Development Professional?

Better learner skills mean greater program success.

Provide or recommend the book and/or app to everyone to upgrade learner power.

Boost Employee Learning Skills

Everyone’s HOW to Learn resource

Learner- Ability as Well as Learnability

Unleash Unstoppable Learners: A Guide for Learning Professionals

  • Teach people HOW to learn WHILE they learn in your programs
  • Insert learner-ability building into your existing or new designs, evaluations, and transfer support

Contact for quantity discounts: [email protected]

The Talent Professional’s Job is not just to provide resources and programs, but also to help people become more self-confident, self-managing, and self-developing

Pat McLagan

The Thought Leader Behind the App and Book

Pat McLagan is a recognized thought leader on adult and organizational learning, receiving top awards from the Association for Talent Development (formerly ASTD), the Instructional Systems Association, the Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame. She is one of the University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development's Inspiring Minds for a Century.

A lifelong researcher and innovator for better self-directed and science-based, smarter learning and development, she was one of the first to write about and promote more self-driven learning as a key 21st Century meta-skill.

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Author, Consultant
Change Agent, Speaker,
Mentor, Thought Leader