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Today I want to wrap up all the ideas we’ve discussed and turn to a tool that is more important than all the others for learning better: Habits Habits are the most important tool for learning because unless your behavior makes lasting changes, you’ll never become more efficient in your studies. You could read a […]

In the previous emails, we’ve mostly discussed tactics–smaller methods that help you solve a particular learning problem. Tools like these are important–the more you have, the more learning challenges you can overcome with confidence. Today, instead, I want to talk about strategy. In particular, the high-level approach I used when doing the MIT Challenge to […]

In today’s lesson, I’m going to talk about confidence. In particular, how you can have total confidence in your knowledge whenever you need to walk into an exam, interview or new project. —- Confidence matters. Low confidence adds stress to your life. It makes it harder to enjoy what you’re learning. Worse, it can even […]

Today I’m going to tell you how to learn skills more quickly. In particular, I’m going to attack a common misconception people have about the so-called “10,000 hour rule”, popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers. —- So what’s wrong with 10,000 hours? In Gladwell’s book, he used the research of Anders Ericsson to observe […]

In yesterday’s email, I talked about how you can memorize things. This works well if there are far too many facts and figures to understand deeply–or if the way you need to use the knowledge doesn’t require an in-depth understanding. That won’t work on most subjects. Why? Because remembering isn’t the only problem you face–understanding […]

Today I’m going to tackle a common problem–how do you remember everything, especially for subjects that appear to require a lot of memorization, such as languages, biology and law. How would you remember 1500 new words in one month? What if you had only 30 minutes a day to learn them? This was the experiment […]

Welcome to the first day of the free one-week learn faster bootcamp! Every day this week I’ll send you a new email with a new tactic for learning faster. At the bottom of each email there will be a specific, short, exercise so you can start making the new learning strategies into habits. Today we’re […]

I know many of you are trying to learn languages. Or maybe you’re studying medicine, pharmacy, law or a subject that first appears to require a lot of memorization. For these types of classes, I’ve sought out and tested the best methods for improving your recall. Today I’m going to share with you just one […]

Some of you may have noticed a problem with the memory technique I shared on Day 2. It assumes you already understand the subject decently. Trying to create metaphors or simplify a topic is extremely hard when you have a broken understanding. Today I’m going to share a method to understand the extremely hard ideas. […]

Today I’m going to teach you how to learn skills quickly. I’ve used this method to learn copywriting, new programming languages, hard mathematical techniques and even cooking. What matters more, the research shows that without this key method, many skill-building practices fail, with people remaining at the same level forever. First, a Quick Announcement This […]