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Refer to the title.
Another word, wording or phrase to say:
learnings
For example, if I had a list of things that I had learned and I wanted to write "my learnings" as the title. So the question is what are the alternatives because it just doesn't sound right to me.
What's another way to say “my learnings”? my lessons
Suggested alternatives include lessons learned, “things one learned” – or simply lessons – discoveries, findings, insights, and takeaways.
lessons wikitionary
In many situations, you could describe these as your takeaways. Collins defines it as:
an important idea or fact to be remembered, usually one arising from a meeting or discussion
You could say my discoveries. (Per Merriam-Webster, discoveries can be used as a noun to mean, quite logically, 'something that has been discovered.')
Learnings is fairly common these days in management consulting and corporate training circles. If that's your audience, you can just use Learnings as your title, unless you need to distinguish between your learnings and those of others.
If you want something more "classic", you could use Knowledge Gained, since corporate training sessions are often styled as Knowledge Transfer.
BTW, it's a term that greatly annoys the Linguistic Purists and other people with too much time on their hands. But you probably know this.
What about "findings" ? "Learnings" reminds me of a record book 25 years back. I was doing my apprenticeship and I had to fill the record book with the things I learnt every week. There is also another expression like "vocation learnt".
