How to Learn Anything Fast |

 

: How to Learn Anything Fast | 

raise your hand if you think you have a

fantastic memory okay I can see a couple

of hands raising so let me make it easy

for you I'm going to ask you easy

question raise your hands if you think

you have a bad memory Oh a lot more

hands going up right now and what about

the rest of you did not raise the hands

you forgot to raise your hands well

here's the goodness it really doesn't

matter whether you think you have a good

memory or not because it's a fact that

you can train your brain to remember

better to learn faster and to achieve

mastery in anything you want in your

life and I'd like to show you something

really interesting here which actually

demonstrates to you what you can do if

you train your brain now I would request

any five a few any five people can have

a volunteer to please come here and rive

something on the flip chart yeah we got

two volunteers right from here so one

two three thank you for thank you okay I

promise you you don't have to remember

anything that's a good thing yeah okay

so we got one more person one person

it's come on just one more person I want

one more person to come up yes sir

please come

okay anyone it's fun all right so we got

five bigger of applause for all of them

here thank you very much for

volunteering okay so this is what's

going to happen so I think you can start

just didn't here is to the flipchart so

all you need to do is just open it for

you so all you need to do is to write s

600 people fine right a six digit number

on this flip shot right little big so

everyone the audience can see so online

a six digit number and after you've done

this please pass the market the next

person you write the six digits six

digits six digits and sir is it okay if

you stay back after you written on the

your digit because I need a little bit

more help from you okay good okay

perfect

so so I'm going to go behind the

flipchart

so because I'm not going to look at

these numbers for the next few minutes

all good so far okay good so now you

also need to write a six digits a random

number

all right so if everything went well you

should be having a 30 digit number on

the flip chart is that correct okay

everyone thank you very much and please

have a seat have a seat

except you okay now I'm gonna stand

behind the flip chart and I will if you

don't mind can you please call these

numbers to me out loud one by one yes go

ahead right right right right right

right right right right sorry I think I

just messed up a little bit thing here

so after you said to zero what are the

next number four eight okay next

six okay go ahead right right right

right right right right right

right right right right right right

right right right right right right

right so thank you very much applause

for and zero here perfect thank you all

right

so of course you're expecting me to do

something which is true

so what's gonna happen is I'll try to

recall these numbers for my memory and

let's see how it goes

the numbers are seven seven one seven

okay I messed up let's start again so

it's seven seven one two zero four eight

six seven three two zero three zero

seven seven three one nine eight two two

five okay wait it's eight - after that

should be it's nine five one six two

five three four

[Applause]

what's the time right now so what's the

time right now it for if I sometimes

8:45 is not the right time for me I miss

one or two digits all right so what

you've seen is a demonstration of what

anyone can do now that's just a 30 digit

number we'll come back to now some of

you wondering oh how I memorize these

numbers I'll come back and explain to

you how I did it now one of my records

is I memorized a number consisting of

1944 digits it looks something like that

I memorized a deck of playing cards in

less than two minutes

I also memorize a deck of seven decks of

playing cards in 60 minutes so for those

of you are thinking of taking me to the

casino I'm available we can talk about

the negotiation later on and also I

became a grandmaster of memory many

years ago and also broke a Guinness

record in memorizing the longest

sequence of colors now it is true that I

broke a Guinness record in memory and it

was also true that many years ago I used

to hold a world record in forgetting

it's not official if you ask my mom and

dad they'll tell you I had a lousy

memory in fact I still remember one of

those days spend my 15 years old.i my

mom asked me to buy something from the

shop I got onto my bicycle we went to

the shop parked my bicycle went into the

shop and as I was going into the shop I

totally forgot I went there on a bicycle

walked out of the shop and started

walking back home and the most

embarrassing thing was I realized I left

my bicycle

only the next day now for those of you

wondering what happened to the bicycle

well you guessed it I lost it so I had a

lousy memory I went from a person with a

lousy memory to breaking a Guinness

record and the good news is anyone can

train their memory anyone can become a

fast learner

because today I'm going to show you my

formula of how you can learn anything

and master anything in a fun easy manner

so I'm going to show you some pictures

on the screen as and these are some

famous people so who is this

thank you who's that thank you very much

and who's this and then who's this a

proven fit it's not a quick interaction

here can you please find a partner the

person sitting next to you by default

becomes your partner groups of two suit

race is fine okay ten seconds and your

exercise is very simple can you please

turn to your partner and tell him or her

what is common among all these people

you ten seconds starts now go ahead okay

thank you very much that's about ten

seconds time thank you very much can I

have some answers please shout out loud

what is common billionaires thank you

what is that come on Americans are they

Oh

so next time I should chain that thanks

for pointing it out thanks celebrities

what else

inspiration that's true now can I also

say that all these people are masters at

their game do you agree with that well

they're masters at their game so you

don't when I was a teenager growing up

but I used to read or hear about

successful people and their

extraordinary achievements I always used

to be fascinated by their stories and

always used to wonder you know what is

it that makes these people very very

successful and I'm talking about way

back 1990s and those days there was no

internet and if you want to do research

in 1990 what do you do you go to library

that's exactly what I did I went to the

library I fell in love with trading

books and I used to read hours and hours

and finally when I started reading a lot

of these books I found out the secret of

success like most of you say I mean

they're all rich in billionaires but

then most of the common things like you

know they are passionate all these

useful peoples are passionate they have

clear goals they're they have a good

purpose they're hard-working they're

committed they're confident but one

thing that many people miss out is they

all have committed to lifelong learning

you name any person who has achieved

extraordinary levels of success I can

tell you that does person has committed

to lifelong learning they keep on

learning new things on a regular basis

Oliver Wendell Holmes said a long time

ago a mind that is stretched by a new

experience can never go back to its old

dimensions and that is the reason I say

that your learning ability decides your

earning capacity and there's also the

reason why if you learn faster you will

stand out from everyone else if you

learn faster you can go from underpaid

to overpay and if you learn faster you

can have an unfair advantage over others

so the question is how do you not so it

all starts with input what I mean by

input now most people they just focus

way too much on input what I mean by

input is they go to seminars they read

books they watch videos they listen to

podcast they follow up blogs its input

input input input and more input well

there's nothing wrong with learning the

problem is if you have too much of input

with no output what happens is you have

shallow learning that's not good what we

want is not shallow learning for example

how many of you had this experience

where you know some of your friends come

to you and say hey read this book and

then you go yeah what do you learn from

this book and then they go say good book

it's a good book it's a very good book

you know and then you go okay like I

understand what he was saying but what's

the take away from this book for you and

say I tell you you must read this book

[Laughter]

well what's the point of learning

something if you can't implement it and

benefit from this that is pure

intellectual entertainment nothing else

we don't want shallow learning we want

deep learning and how do you do that we

do it it's very simple for true mastery

you need to focus more on the output

rather than the input you need to focus

more on the output rather than the input

so raise your hand if you heard this

thing before yeah thank you very much to

use it or this is so true with learning

when you learn something if you don't

use it if you don't output it you lose

it

so that's reason why we should become

more of an output person than input and

here's my formula of how you can be a

master at anything the first things of

course learn which is what do you

already you're doing now the interesting

thing is when you are learning you must

ensure that the quality of input is

really really high you must be paying

100% attention but the problem is when

people are learning these days what do

they do they do multitasking because of

what because the devices that you're

actually holding right now because of

the phones that we have people do

multitask and just imagine even you're

reading a book when you're watching a

video you have your phone nearby and

while you're reading while you're

learning while you're understanding and

the phone message goes off there's a

notification goes off what do you do

of course you attend to it when you

attend to it what happened what you just

did you killed your momentum you messed

up with the quality of input now here's

the thing your quality of input

determines the quality of retention how

well and how long can you remember

information it also affects the quality

of recall that's the reason why my

suggestion is if you are learning

something at least for the time you're

learning you should be doing not

multitasking but the exact opposite of

it which is single task to one thing at

one time especially it comes to learning

stay away from distractions pay 100%

attention and then you'll be well on

your way to mastering that the first

thing as

second things of course is reflect now

many people are in the rush to learn new

things which is good but the problem is

you don't you also need to do reflect

what I mean by that

after you learn something pause for a

while and ask yourself hey what's the

take away from this thing and how can I

use this information in my life how can

I use information in my work in my

family when you pause when you reflect

when you ask these questions

that's how learning solidifies otherwise

it's all just wasted and after reflect

the next step is implement and this is

where the magic happens and

unfortunately many people miss out on

this thing what they do is they go on

learning new things they get excited and

they feel good they feel inspired and

they're going to learn something new you

just messed up but the problem is if you

get into the habit of just learning

without implementation you know what you

get you get illusion of competence you

feel you've learnt it you feel you're

competent but it's not competence at all

because you haven't implemented so my

suggestion is when you are learning

something stop right down what are the

few things I can take action on schedule

it in the calendar and take some action

because this what might one of my

mentees told me the shunt allows the

action is better than no action do you

agree with that thank you very much and

of course the last step is share raise

your hand if you heard this thing before

the best way to learn something is to

teach it thank you you all heard that

and that is so true when you learn

something just output it just share it

other people know if you don't know if

you don't want to teach they could just

share it you could just discuss it but

what happens is when you share things

other people what you're doing is you're

helping your brain to pay more attention

and then you will be on your path to

mastery so I have not seen anyone who

became a master at something just by

doing the input they all became masters

by doing the input and more of the

output so I have a question for you when

you are learning something new how much

time do you spend on learning and how

much time do you spend on reflecting on

implementing and on sharing

and if you're not spending more time and

input in output that's not a good thing

now come back to the numbers I memorize

I'm just I know you're wondering how a

memorize these numbers know for that I

have a simple system it's called

visualization and Association now how

many of you believe that the brain

remembers pictures better yes that's

reason why we always say I have seen you

somewhere sorry what's your name

do you ever say I know your name what's

your face the human brain works so what

I do is I have pre assigned visuals for

every two digit number so as angela was

calling these numbers to me so what I

did was I tried to you know convert

those into the number visuals that I

already have and I use Association to

link them up together now if you're

wondering mission how do you do so fast

that is where implementation comes when

you practice and you implement it that's

how you become a true master now in fact

when I'm going to do these workshops

people can do this at the end of one day

or two days it's not that easy if you

know the right technique now coming back

to this thing oops

I have a simple solution for you

before I close and this is this if

you're spending X amount of time on

input my solution is at least spend two

X amount of time on output and when you

do that you are well on your way to be a

master at achieving anything you want

because I messed up a couple of digits I

want to challenge myself

we've got inspired after Monod speech

I'm gonna challenge myself and turn out

my fear and face my fear and what I'm

gonna do is just take one moment I'll

try to recall this number one more time

after speaking for 20 minutes okay know

if this don't go well just cut this out

from the YouTube

it's good ok so that's true so the

Pacific I'm recall these numbers in the

backward sequence challenging myself who

knows four three five two six one five

nine two eight nine one three seven

seven zero not yet three zero two three

seven six eight four it's zero two one

seven seven seven

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