Spelade
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In this episode we discuss several simple strategies for thinking better by looking at lessons ranging from sources as disparate as the methods of Sherlock Holmes to the principles of professional poker. How do you create focus and engagement when you’re trying to solve a problem? What are the potential ways that you can improve your memory to supercharge your thinking ability? How can you train your mind to think more effectively about emotion, risk, and uncertainty? We discuss this and much more with our guest Maria Konnikova.
Maria Konnikova is the author of two New York Times best-sellers Mastermind: How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes and The Confidence Game. Maria graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and received her Ph.D in psychology from Columbia University. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, WIRED, and much more and she is an avid poker player as well.Is is possible that a fictional character could teach us how to think and make better decisions?Mindfulness - the thing that distinguishes Sherlock Holmes from any other detective is that he is fully present and sees and observes small detailsThe hidden power of how remarkably quiet Sherlock Holmes is - he’s a great demonstration of the power of contemplative routinesHow do we create focus and engagement when we’re working on something?You carry this real estate with you all the time - your “Brain attic” - and how you can use it to think more effectivelyAny information you remember is only useful to you if you can retrieve it when you need - and that’s why you must store things properly A few strategies for making your memory more effective:Encoding - the moment where we first remember it. If you aren’t paying attention you won’t remember in the first place and the memory will never get encoded. Memories are most powerful when they’re tied to other existing memoriesEvery single point of encoding is an anchor or retrieval point that can retrieve everythingUse multiple senses to encode a memory - not just one - build a rich texture of memories to encode them Encoding is different than rote memorization - it’s much more powerfulHow Maria went from a psychology PhD to becoming a professional poker playerHow poker can teach you how to make decisions under conditions of risk, uncertainty, and emotion You can teach people about biases and yet they still make the same mistakes Poker is a way to teach your mind to think in the right ways about risk, emotion, and uncertaintyThere is no better metaphor for the game of life than pokerWhat enabled Maria Konnikova to go from a total outsider to a professional poker player in such a short period of time?Having one of the top players in the world mentor her was a huge piece of itHaving a beginners mind and being willing to not know and ask simple questions Being willing to study and put in massive hours to learnFully immersing yourself, studying 9-10 hours a day, reading, analyzing hands, watching streams, taking notes, talking to people about strategyThere are no shortcuts, ever. There’s no magic bullet. You must put aside your ego to learn and improveHomework: Single most important thing that you can do is meditate 10 minutes per day every day. It doesn’t matter what’s going on around you. Admit the distractions and then let go of them. It doesn’t need to be a quiet place. That one habit can be life changing.
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In this episode we discuss how our guest went from a childhood head injury to becoming an accelerated learning expert. We cover memory, speed reading, improving your focus, taking notes like an expert and go deep into tactics for accelerated learning. We talk about the importance of mastering the fundamentals, and get into tons of highly specific and actionable advice you can use today with our guest Jim Kwik.
Jim Kwik is the founder of Kwik Learning and Superhero You. Jim is a brain coach in speed reading, memory improvement, brain performance, and accelerated learning. Jim’s methods and work have been utilized by with several high profile companies including Nike, SpaceX, and GE, as well as individuals such as the Clintons, Oprah, Richard Branson and more.
We’ve discovered more in the last 20 years about the human brain than we learned in the 2000 years before that
How Jim went from growing up with learning challenges from an early childhood head injury to become an expert in accelerated learning and speed reading
How to read 30 books in 30 days
How we can actually retain what we read
Knowledge is not power, its only potential power
The one super power you want to master in the 21st century (learn faster)
Traditional speed reeding, skimming, skipping words, getting the gist of something is not enough - its about fully capturing and retaining the information
The average person reads 1-2 books per year, but the average CEO reads 4-5 books per month
What Bill Gates said the #1 super power he would pick would be
How you can gain 2 months of productive time per year
Why motivation is such a critical component of accelerated learning - have a purpose for why you read
"H-Cubed” - 3 things you need for motivation to have accelerated learning
The fastest way to read something is not to read it at all - figured out what your end goal is
How you can remember names more effectively & become a great connector
If you forget someone’s name, you show that they’re not important to you
How to give a speech without notes
Brain Hacks for Speed Reading
“Leaders are readers” and why Jim thinks you should read 30 minutes per day
12 things Jim does every morning to jumpstart his brain
Mental fitness is as important, if not more important, than mental intelligence
Using a “visual pacer” and how that brain hack can help you instantly double your reading speed
One of the biggest traps in the personal development field is the “next new thing”
People who are truly on the path to Mastery focus on the fundamentals and get REALLY REALLY GOOD at the BASICS
How to get a 20-50% boost in your reading speed right now
Excellence comes down to a set of routines, rituals, and habits
If we always do the easy thing in life, life becomes hard, if we do the hard things, life becomes easy
BEMAT = behavior equals motivation ability and trigger
The primacy principle and the recency principle - and why you should chunk and take breaks to create more “beginnings and ends"
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