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Ass-Kicking Email – How to excel in difficult, boring subjects

Hey,

A few things in this email:

1. How to handle subjects that are *both* hard and boring
2. I discuss the implementation guide “Total Immersion Method”

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Excelling in Difficult, Boring Subjects

Some topics are easy. Some are interesting. Some are easy, but
boring. Some are hard but interesting.

And some are hard and boring at the same time. These heinous classes
that you struggle to understand and feel so painfully dull you can’t
concentrate on them.

Most students who are struggling in school have these types of
subjects as their nemesis.

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There are two ways to excel in difficult, boring subjects:

The first is the most obvious, and the route most people take, it’s
to try to make the material easier. There are a few ways you can
do this, and most of the implementation guides and course materials
offer suggestions to do just that.

Learning tactics to remember the material or practice to master the
prerequisites can all help.

However, there is a second way that far fewer people take on. I
personally believe, however, that it’s a far more effective way to
dominate in a hard, boring subject.

That is to make the subject less boring.

I know, it sounds impossible, right? Some classes are just dull.
You can’t control that, you can only control how well you do in
them, or can you?

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Making Boring Classes More Interesting

The goal isn’t to make your class so interesting that you fall in
love with the material and enjoy it as much as television watching
or video games. If you find something uninteresting, you probably
won’t be able to make yourself love it.

But you can shift a topic from being mind-numbingly dull to being
a curiosity. Curiosity wedges the door open so that you can really
effectively apply all those learning tactics so the first step of
making the class less difficult becomes fairly straightforward.

Ask yourself what would make your currently boring, difficult class
more interesting:

*Would it be seeing how it is actually applied in the real world?
*Could it be finding a connection to your personal life?
*Maybe a different explanation from a different teacher?
*It might be getting enthusiastic about not the topic itself but
a related topic from which it depends.

So let’s say I need to learn international contract laws, which is
currently a nightmare of remembering conventions and minutia.

Some ways I could make it more interesting, and hence, easier:

*Look for news pieces about international contracts
*See how you might be affected in your job/school/business by
some of the laws.
*Look over YouTube, Wikipedia and Google for other explanations
which may be more attention-grabbing.
*Get interested in the politics of how some of these laws formed

You may not fall in love with a dull subject, but if you can wedge
yourself to make the topic a little more interesting, you’ve gone
a little bit further.

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Total Immersion Method

If you want to download this guide go to CONTENT under MONTH 9 on
the members’ website:

https://scotthyoung.com/members/?page_id=42

This guide explores a different concept than I normally discuss in
these emails–the idea of learning something in a short period of
time, not necessarily a low amount of effort.