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How to Learn Anything Faster with Nick Velasquez

Episode Summary

Nick has done all the legwork so that you don’t have to. Get the best tips and techniques for how to optimize your learning and skill acquisition in any topic. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, discouraged, or frustrated while studying a subject, here are some tools to add to your toolkit.

Episode Notes

Nick is a passionate learner and devoted student of mastery. He is the author of Learn, Improve, Master: How to Develop Any Skill and Excel at It.

Quotes to remember:

“I need to be learning something all the time. I like learning something every day.”

“It’s important to have that inner critic that says, can you do better?”

Takeaways:

The study behind the 10,000-hour rule and how it has been misinterpreted
Repetition doesn’t mean improvement
Learning isn’t necessarily fun all the time; it’s more of a slow burn
The willingness to suck helps you improve more quickly, and it takes courage
Everyone starts as a beginner, even the masters
Metrics help us remain accountable and motivated
There comes a time when we focus and reread quality texts to go deeper
Challenge is part of joy
Do the little things that only you will notice

What you’ll learn:

How Nick became so involved in the art of learning and all of the subjects and sports he has studied
Common myths around mastery
The steps of learning that will help you get better at anything, faster
How to build resilient habits that are easy to follow and difficult to break
Handling and working with the inevitable inner critic
Nick’s process for reading books and organizing the information
The shallow search for novelty versus the meaningfulness of going deeper into one subject of study

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