so you want to learn faster and more effectively than any person you know you're in the right place I don't care whether you want to cook the perfect meal make a million dollars or discover the meaning of life there's only one skill that you need to be successful in anything that you do it's called the skill of learning now you may be sitting there thinking well I've been learning my whole life I think I'm pretty good at it we buckle up because I have some bad news for you think back to when you were in
school your teachers would lecture you about history and science and tell you to go home and Learn by reading the textbook the problem is you never learned how to actually learn no one ever sat you down and told you the cheat codes to quickly and effectively absorbing information into your mind after all these years I'm going to give you the secret formula and teach you how to learn anything faster than anyone you know the first principle is absolutely essential for you to know it's called the 8020 rule the 8020 rule states that 80% of your
results come from only 20% of your effort so what does that mean for you well if you're trying to learn a new language instead of memorizing in thousands of words and complex grammar rules focus on the thousand most commonly used words and learning how to form basic sentences oh you want to learn how to cook focus on mastering the fundamentals first chicken pasta eggs rice Etc put a little salt and pepper on that and boom you're already a better Chef than half the people I know and please challenge me in the comments below I bet
you can't name a single skill where mastering the basics first doesn't make you better more quickly the truth is most people over complicate things and waste time on details that don't matter if you focus on the 20% that drives 80% of the results you'll get way better way faster than everyone else now the second principle may shock you anytime you're trying to learn anything new I want you to have one single goal in mind to fail over and over and over again as quickly as possible now you're probably thinking what the is this guy talking
about I'm here to learn things not fail well you're going to want to hear me out if your goal is to learn how to go viral on social media but from day one every single post you put out gets a million likes what did you actually learn you learned nothing you do not learn from succeeding the only time you ever learn is after you fail if you want to learn how to shoot a basketball you have to miss a shot first so you can take a step back and reflect on what you did wrong sure
would going viral on social media every time or never missing a basketball shot be amazing of course but that's not real life the point is you only learn by failing first so by that logic it would only make sense to fail as much and as quickly as possible the Learning Cycle at its very core has four stages one experiencing that failure two taking a step back to reflect on what went wrong three taking in more information like watching videos or reading books and for improving on your mistakes then simply just repeat now I have a
cheat code for fast laning this process in cognitive tasks like studying for an exam or learning a new language let's say for example you're studying for an exam on World War II I want you to close the book then ask yourself questions like explain what happened in World War II from there recite everything you know almost pretend like you're the one teaching once you eventually hit a roadblock jot that down then go back to reading so you can fill that Gap after that just keep repeating this process by doing this you're failing instantly every couple
of minutes this cheat code is known as active Recall now this final principle is arguably the most important of all it's going to sound ironic but to learn more quickly you need to learn learn more slowly I know you clicked on a video called how to learn anything fast but by learning more slowly you actually learn quicker let me explain your brain like your body is a muscle it only has so much capacity for one day of taking in new information if your brain wasn't like this we could work all day long without getting tired
now think about that one topic or skill that you're trying to learn currently I can guarantee that it has many subtopics in the overarching goal let's take the example of cooking if you're trying to learn knife SK skills perfect seasoning sauce making boiling pasta and Grilling all in one session you're going to walk away about 1% better at each skill now if you only tried grilling a single piece of chicken you'd probably improve 20% or more in just grilling if you do the math you've just learned the overall skill of cooking four times faster when
you slow down and take the time to build each skill until it becomes a habit you'll improve faster than 99% of people who try to do everything at once and end up mastering nothing the cool part is that this principle applies everywhere learning a new sport focus on mastering one movement at a time trying to get better at chess master one opening before jumping to complex strategies want to be a better speaker work on pausing in Clarity before worrying about fancy words now in order to truly learn anything there's still one piece of the puzzle
missing you need to genuinely believe that you can do it this is called a growth mindset the belief that no matter where you're starting from you can improve if you put in the effort in honestly you need to take this belief to almost a delusional level if you want to learn something you need to be so confident in your ability to figure it out that failure isn't even an option think about it you've already done this before you learned to walk talk read and write you weren't born knowing how to do any of those things
but you figured them out so why should this be any different and if this thing you're learning is truly important to you then it's not just about effort it's about immersion it should be the thing you're thinking about in the shower before bed when you're zoning out in class or work if you're serious about mastering this you need to be obsessed that's the mindset difference between people who kind of learn something and people who Master it which one are you going to be at the end of the day learning anything fast comes down to focusing
on the right things mastering one step at a time and believing so strongly in your ability to improve that success becomes inevitable I'll see you in the next one
