burn your textbooks delete dualingo the 21st Century's most dangerous skill isn't coding or AI it's learning how to learn by the time you finish this video a 16-year-old in Kenya will have coded an app to save his Village's crops using nothing but YouTube tutorials and a cracked phone level one accept that the self-taught rules forget ivy league degrees they're just overpriced Netflix subscriptions for lectures your grandma could Google self-taught Rebels are the world's new ruling class A 2023 MIT study found self-taught coders outperform CS graduates in real world problem solving by 34% why they're not
Shackled by cabi designed in the 1980s self-taught Minds learn in 6 months what schools stretch into 6 years then charge you $200,000 for the privilege Elon Musk built SpaceX by binge reading Soviet rocket manuals and harassing Engineers on Reddit no Aerospace degree just a pyromaniacs curiosity a 17-year-old named Santiago Gonzalez a self-taught coder built 15 iOS apps before he even graduated high school because he realized early on that Pythagoras wasn't paying anyone's rent see the pattern the best Learners don't ask for permission they steal knowledge and weaponize it but there's a catch you can learn
fast but only if your brain is on your side and right now it's not level two hack your brain with imagination your brain is a gullible puppet it can't tell reality from imagination and that's your human only Advantage studies show active visualization wires neural Pathways as as effectively as physical practice want proof surgeons who visualize procedures make 40% fewer errors musicians who mentally rehearse outperform those who physically practice here's how to weaponize daydreaming like a Black Ops agent with examples example one learn a Spanish verb don't just repeat it like a broken parrot what did
you say to me I'm sorry imagine screaming it at a taxi driver in Madrid because he's ripping you off smell the stale cigarette smoke in the car feel the cracked leather seat sticking to your legs the more vile Vivid and sensory the scenario the harder your brain clings to it it'll think we've survived this chaos before better keep that word on standby example two learning basketball close your eyes visualize the ball seams digging into your fingertips the ache in your calves from squatting the hiss of the net as you sink 50 shots in a row
not just success but the grind do this for 2 minutes daily and your muscles will literally twitch as if you've practiced science calls this idom motor phenomenon but here's the problem what if everything you've learned so far is a disconnected pile of Legos and I've got the blueprint to turn it into a weapon but if you're looking to accelerate this self-taught journey even further you can use today's sponsor skillshare you dive into a world where learning is tailored to your pace and curiosity from photography to graphic design music cooking business and marketing skillshare offers classes
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trial today level three cross must train your Knowledge Learning isolated facts is for amateurs think of your mind as Lego every skill snaps into another example one no python congratulations you've already hacked 70% of JavaScript the logic of Loops variables and functions identical example two play piano you've secretly trained for boxing Rhythm transfers to footwork reading sheet music that's pattern recognition same skill that lets Fighters predict punches ask how does this relate to what I already know if you can't connect it you'll forget it but here's the problem can you even focus long enough to
use this level 3.5 Focus equals success let me be real The Godfather of deep work prove that the average office worker can't focus for more than 6 minutes straight you're not busy you're just addicted to your own distraction but here's why you're failing every time you switch tasks checking Instagram replying to a text your brain leaves residue on the last activity study at 50% Focus for an hour and you've absorbed less than a goldfish multitasking is career suicide a university of London study found task switching drops your IQ more than smoking weed however your brain
adapts do it enough and you'll permanently lose the ability to focus so start focusing on one thing for long periods of time avoid shortform content because it is literal poison and meditate you will be amazed how fast you will gain your focus Fus back the world's moving your brain's loaded pull the trigger or rot
