How do you learn a subject or skill in half the time? Let's do it together . I want you to right now think of a subject or skill that you just want to learn fast. You want to learn it rapidly at an accelerate rate. You want to learn faster so you can achieve faster. i want you to remember the four letters.
F.A.S.T, fast and the F stands for Forget. you are like ''jim , you are this world class memory expert. You are this coach to all these celebrities and CEOs Why are you starting with forgetting?". You want to forget what you already know about the subject so you can learn something brand new. Often a lot of people do not learn faster because they feel like their cup is full and they feel like they know it already. So always remember to start with a beginner's mind. I would also say forget about what's going on in the world and anything that's not urgent or important in your world because if you try to think about things that are going on and be present you can't do that . And you are only using a fraction of your own potential if you are distracted. I would also say forget about your limitations because you don't know what your limitations because you don't know what you don't know. Often people will see me on stage memorize a hundred people's name or a hundreds words,number backwards and forwards, and i always tell you i don't do this to impress you. I do this to express to you what's really possible because the truth is you could do it too. regardless your age, your background , your education. You are just not taught how to do it. If anything you were taught a lie. A lie that somehow your intelligence, your memory, your learning is somehow fixed like your shoe size but we know that your learning is absolutely limitless.so set your limitation aside and forget about them.
The "A" in FAST stands for active. what do you mean by active? If you feel overloaded with too much to learn in too time...like do you have books on your shelf you have not read yet? You get more than 10 emails a day? You listen to podcasts? There' so much information out there but if you feel like You are stressed, like you can't keep up, here's the thing. it's not your fault.You know why? its because we all grew up with a 20th century education that prepared us for a 20th century world, which at the turn of the century was working in factories and farms.but now we live in an age of autonomous electric cars and spaceships that are going to mars,but our vehicle of choice when it comes to learning is like a horse and buggy. And one of the challenge is our school trained us to be very passive.sit quietly by yourself, be lectured to, just consume information but your brain doesn't learn based on consumption. it learns through creation and so learning is not a spectator sport.
The ''S'' in FAST stands for state. what do you mean by state? I mean the current mood of your mind and your body because here's the key to better memory. information combined with emotion becomes a long-term memory. What do you mean by that ? Is there a song or fragrance or a food that could take you back to when you were a child? Of course because information combined with the emotion becomes a long- term memory.
The ''T'' in FAST, if you want to learn any subject or skill faster , learn it as if you are going to teach it to somebody else. Because when you are learning it to teach it then you are going to pay attention differently .Then you are going to make it your own. then you are going to remember it differently because here's the thing when you teach something you get to learn it twice.