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tesla
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Einstein and especially Leonardo da
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Vinci i've been studying for years
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people who are the most successful
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self-taught geniuses and long ago I
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discovered one habit they all hold in
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common and the crazy part is that almost
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no one teaches it which helps explain
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why so many people are failing to reach
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their full potential and perhaps you're
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in that trap right now so if you feel
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like you've been constantly studying but
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never actually getting smarter never
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actually reaching a place where you
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could even imagine achieving your goals
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make sure to watch this entire video to
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the end especially if you read books
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watch tutorials take all kinds of notes
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only to find that minutes later or days
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later or weeks later it's all gone that
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problem of forgetting gets solved today
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because in addition to giving you access
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to my free self-education blueprint and
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another powerful resource that has a
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chance at least a chance of freeing you
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from the prison of failure you're about
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to discover how every self-taught genius
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I'm aware of really locked information
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into their brain processed it at insane
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speeds and most importantly never got
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hung up on useless objections about
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whether or not something is too abstract
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or impractical or well I don't know how
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to do this etc they understood that
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every second and every iota of energy is
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practical provided you have the one
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simple habit I'll show you today
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including examples of how to apply it in
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your learning life and your life at
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large but content is merely king and
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context is God so let's look at why
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people trying to educate themselves in a
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world filled with broken school systems
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fails us well a lot of people are binge
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watching educational content and then
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they go on to forget 90% of it or more
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maybe even 100% of it because they have
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either never taken notes they take notes
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ineffectively or they never use the
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notes that they jot down and some people
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even think that passive consumption
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equals intelligence i've seen this so
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many times i spend all my time watching
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the best channels and always spend all
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my time listening to the absolute best
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podcasts no no no no no no no no a
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self-taught genius thinks differently
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and operates differently by processing
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information actively and not just
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actively but in three different kinds of
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time and to do that they apply one habit
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that turns learning into mastery but
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before I reveal the habit let me tell
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you a quick story this is Dr anthony
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Metivier from
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magneticmarymethod.com get subscribed if
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you're new here hit that thumbs up and
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just understand that if you're watching
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this video chances are you've heard of
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some of the people that I talk about but
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chances are you've never heard of them
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in quite this way so be part of the
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community and help me help others find
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it with your engagement and your
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comments because we want to make as many
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people be as genius as possible and not
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in this arrogant snotty way but in the
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humble way like Da Vinci's way because
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this dude was very very humble very
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humble indeed so much so that he
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sometimes didn't mention that he was a
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painter until the end of his resume
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right and I teach those things too okay
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so with humility in mind Richard Fineman
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had something called the Fineman
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technique we're going to make it better
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today so if you already know it don't
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skip the details because we need the
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general review but also we're going to
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go a little deeper on it now Fineman in
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case you don't know him was one of the
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most brilliant physicists in history but
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he did something that a lot of people
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think is a little bit strange instead of
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just reading notes and taking notes like
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a lot of his classmates he forced
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himself to teach everything he learned
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even before he fully understood it
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please understand this it's worth
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repeating before he understood it and he
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did this all his life and this is where
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a lot of people get stuck they don't do
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things because they feel that they don't
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understand but understanding is a
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process right and Fineman gives this
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over and over and over again throughout
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his career and he has endless
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extraordinarily important lessons for
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people that are stuck in hesitation and
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one lecture he gave just sticks in my
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mind he said "It is my task to convince
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you not to turn away from physics
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because you don't understand it." You
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see my students don't understand it
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either that's because I don't understand
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it nobody does now that's not just
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humility it's a strategy and it's a
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strategy that does require an extra dose
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of intelligence because you have to
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admit the truth of things and this is a
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world where a lot of people do not like
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truth they like little fantasies and
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little boxes that they can tick right
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but
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understanding is a procedure and it
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requires continual vigilant awareness
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and acknowledgment of the procedural
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nature of
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self-education and we're always going to
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have ignorance to deal with and we're
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always going to be intimately involved
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in ignorance now you want to be able to
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enable yourself to deal with that
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constant ignorance and one way you can
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think about it and this is an ancient
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metaphor is that the truth the knowledge
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is a sun and ignorance is just the
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clouds well clouds come and go they're
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not going to stop coming and going but
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when you detect those clouds you blow
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them away right and the more you're
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willing to do that and the better you're
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going to be now what is the blowing away
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well it's the effort of teaching
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teaching teaching teaching teaching
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right and so you've got to just start
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explaining it as quickly as you possibly
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can in your life in order to be able to
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develop your personal genius and do it
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in a way where you don't get hung up on
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things i had somebody trying to convince
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me the other day oh I could never be a
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genius because of X Y and Z because
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because because because because because
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well that song belongs in the Wizard of
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Oz we're singing a different tune the
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foundational theory of learning is this
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if you've got genes in your body you've
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got the potential for genius and if you
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can't take my word for it read Lin
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Kelly's The Knowledge Gene amongst her
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other books you know my regular viewers
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regular listeners to the Magnetic Memory
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Method podcast know all about Lin
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Kelly's work get into it it's really
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really powerful but she's going to prove
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to you that you can be a genius and it's
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in your genetic makeup or at least for
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most of us it is there are certain
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situations conditions etc and that book
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The Knowledge Gene gives you one of
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those case studies with the most amazing
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scientific story that that I've ever
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read and you're going to enjoy it a
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great deal I'm sure now back to the
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Fineman technique it is not exactly the
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habit I have for you today but I'm
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mentioning it because you can stack it
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together with the sheer gold that I'm
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leading you towards in this video the
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Fineman technique
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is in case you don't know it a very it's
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not just oh just teach others it's also
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you know explain the concept in the
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simplest terms possible as if you were
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explaining it or trying to teach a
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5-year-old now one of my first ways of
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changing this is to ask does it really
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have to be a 5-year-old like what if
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that's not a useful metaphor in a
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particular situation i'm not so orthodox
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on the point is what I'm saying and to
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show you what I mean I mean I went out
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of my way and have spent over a year now
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on the Memory Detective Junior books and
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I went I went for 10-year-olds right to
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explain it to 10 year olds and is that
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okay Richard Feman uh yes that's fine
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because you're using your own noodle and
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you know you're not getting caught up in
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someone else's dogma right so that's a
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very very important principle right is
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you want to explain it simply to just
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somebody at some level that is not ready
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for it right so don't turn it into oh
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well does this really check the
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5-year-old box have I really simplified
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it enough no you just want to understand
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the meaning of the metaphor and if you
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struggle to simplify what you're
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learning the point is not the age group
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that you're simplifying it for it's that
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you have identified now at least one gap
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in your understanding because if you
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can't simplify it to a particular level
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you need to go back you need to study
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more you need to refine your
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comprehension through contemplation
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through writing and you repeat this
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process over and over and over again
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even after you have successfully
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mastered the concept now why do you do
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that because you want to maintain the
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knowledge right and so then when you do
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so you will no longer have failed to
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understand the nature of understanding
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because nature is a process so if you
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struggle to put advice like this into
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use if this is still too conceptual for
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you there might be a reason for that and
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I have high confidence that I can help
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you make a change so that you do finally
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start to get these concepts and then
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start to more importantly implement on
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their basis so as we move forward to the
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gold mine I have for you we want to ask
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why the Fineman technique and this form
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of teaching others at a simplified level
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works well part of the reason is just
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obvious right by breaking things down
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we're using reasoning and analysis to
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have various components and working
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through those various components enables
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us to see how all the parts fit but
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learning scientists also talk about
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active recall so when you're teaching
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what you're doing is you're causing
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memories to form and comprehension
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requires memory by bringing it up in
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your own words and verbally exercising
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your understanding as it is and you're
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literally starting to rewire your brain
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right this is neuroplastic change so if
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you struggle with this right just don't
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label yourself if you keep labeling
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yourself either negative or positive
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you're placing a premium
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on just the label itself not the process
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right so go for precision if you don't
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understand something then the process is
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you go back and you understand it better
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this is genius to go back is the genius
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because genes grow right now I know I'm
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playing around with language a little
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bit but the point is that this is what
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it is this is what these geniuses are
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doing they are literally in movement
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they are in the process they don't get
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stalled they don't get stuck so going
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back to check the record for your
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accuracy to hunt for further details
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you're improving the retention of the
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content and you'll not only eventually
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retain the information more accurately
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but you'll remember the gaps you'll
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remember what it was that you didn't
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correctly understand and so now you have
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a story that you can re use to remind
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yourself and others in the future of how
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essential it is to practice this
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technique in learning i hope that's
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clear right you want to remember when
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you failed because it's going to help
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you fail less in the future and it will
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help you remember the costs of failure
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but it will also help you help others
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not fail or at least share with them the
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story of why you failed and then
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eventually more people will get it
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they'll go aha that's why I failed and
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then all ships rise okay so what that
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means is that technically there never
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are any mistakes not as such just a
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process and that process will reveal
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itself to you and lead to pattern
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recognition that helps you assess the
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validity of future educational resources
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that you want to study it improves your
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critical thinking and ultimately puts
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you ahead of the curve in almost every
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domain of life now I should also give
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cognitive load theory a shout out hello
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cognitive load theory being willing to
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break things down to their smallest and
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simplest components also burns things
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into your memory much much better
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because you're reducing the cognitive
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load so I've memorized many words in so
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many different languages it's not even
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funny different terms some from physics
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like orchestrated objective reduction
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and I had to break that down i had to
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literally ask myself okay so what are we
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going to do for this orchestrated thing
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right or orc O I think is the the
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shortened version of that and I didn't
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let pride get in the way of working on
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just the orc part right and I had to
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think and I got Frank Zappa in there and
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you know blah blah blah blah blah and in
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Latin
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expatendorum well I'm sorry but not
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sorry that I had to break that down to
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one syllable X and then I had pet and
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then 10 and then door and then um x
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expendorum when I have learned the um
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symbols in a non-class logic that I
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studied I had to break it down one
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symbol at a time in order to read these
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syllogisms and if you let your pride get
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in the way of that you're not going to
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be able to reduce the cognitive load
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which means that you'll be stuck in
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overwhelm so these are kind of
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modifications to the Fineman technique I
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suppose but he's literally talking about
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breaking things down down down down down
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why because we know from learning
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science that this is one of the best
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things that we can do even if it seems
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fickle the smallest unit of learning
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could even just be one little curve in a
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new alphabet you're trying to learn all
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right so for completion's sake let me
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break this down into steps if you want
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to use the Fineman technique as we've
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discussed it so far the first step is to
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explain it out loud within 24 hours if
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you can't recall a certain aspect don't
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stress it the substep cuz sometimes you
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will recall it so you don't need this
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step is to you know just don't add a
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label to it don't say "Oh I failed." Or
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"Oh this sucks." Or "Oh this is hard."
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Oh no just go straight to fixing the
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issue right go back brush up study
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additional resources treat it just as
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all part of the process then you have
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the explain it to a 5-year-old or a
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10-year-old rule or just explain it to
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yourself as if you were a simpleton and
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I sometimes do that to myself okay
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simpleton let's go and I don't put an
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age on it but the the target doesn't
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have to have a particular age it's not
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helpful now I just said don't label
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things and then I just immediately went
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to label things another little substep
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here is accept that you're human and
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accept that your teachers are just human
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too because sometimes we get hung up on
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their contradictions and you know that
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doesn't help either right so we want to
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basically just simplify it simplify it
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in the way that you think it will work
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in the context break the concept down
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into ridiculously simple terms and maybe
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that's where a label can help know that
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this is so ridiculously simple but I'm
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doing it for myself anyway that's what I
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did with expatendorum i don't know why
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that word was so difficult but it I just
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made it as ridiculously simple as
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possible and if I had to go from X down
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to E I would have okay so those are
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basically the steps of the Fineman
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technique classically speaking but
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here's another step that I'll add for
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you it's been implicit all along i've
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said okay so if you can't understand go
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back research refine find additional
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resources but if you get stuck even on
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that you can ask a question which is who
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is the person most likely to have the
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answer and how would I find that person
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now answering that question may already
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get you out of the rut because you'll go
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oh I know that the person who wrote the
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book probably has a bibliography at the
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end and I can look for additional
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resources there but you can also use
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search tools a little bit more
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intelligently now these days you can ask
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chat bots and so forth you have to do
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that with caution but that is a a decent
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thing to do but there is still old
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search functions that still work like in
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title and then a colon or in URL in text
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and file type PDF and you can search for
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syllabi from universities and this can
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help you so who is the person best able
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to help me answer this question you can
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refine your search terms down and that
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is a beautiful way to simplify things
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for yourself or the opposite is
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sometimes you need to make it more
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complicated you need to go to the
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experts and it's getting increasingly
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difficult to find those experts with
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traditional search tools and maybe it's
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getting better with the chat bots but I
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would be very very cautious either way
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and use them both and really get to an
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actual physical book if you can but find
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that expert the other thing is and this
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is something that Da Vinci did and it's
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a big lesson here a huge lesson is you
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go and ask people you interview people
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now this can seem like a stretch because
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you know it can be hard to get a
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response i know because I've emailed a
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lot of people and uh sometimes I just
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never hear back from them but at the end
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of the day you can still try or you can
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go to local community functions meetings
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and just start talking to people figure
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out what other people know other
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people's knowledge is a huge asset and
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you want to start to build the process
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of being in the habit of talking with
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other people that's not the gold mine
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yet but it's part of it because a lot of
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us just don't do that we've become so
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accustomed to well I can just look it up
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no you can't or at least if you leave
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yourself strictly to the habit of
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constantly looking things up and leaving
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page one or leaving what a chatbot tells
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you you're putting yourself behind the
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curve
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self-education requires more if you want
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it to be epic and I know you do okay so
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before I get to the gold mine thanks to
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everyone who smashes that thumbs up
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helps me project this message around the
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world so all of the ships can rise
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thanks for those who support my work by
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getting my books and the magnetic merry
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method masterass etc if you want to join
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the ranks of those who use what we're
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about to talk about now the one thing
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that separates the top learners from the
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rest don't stop at learning don't stop
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at the Fineman technique that we just
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discussed and that we add a little bit
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more nuance to the common denominator
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amongst all the people I've studied is
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very simple and it is
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this they turn their knowledge into a
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physical
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asset not digital although there are all
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kinds of personal knowledge management
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systems out there that involve a digital
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component and to a certain extent I
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suppose I use them by virtue of having a
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computer but if you want to learn faster
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than 99% of people and you want to start
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teaching yourself at scale through books
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through courses through videos you have
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to stop starving yourself of the spatial
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memory benefits that come from working
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with physical notebooks journals index
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cards mind mapping and other learning
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techniques that get your hands involved
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in
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space and I said going and talking to
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real people that's part of this too
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being physically engaged in real rooms
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with real people is going to be more and
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more essential especially as we're
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having a lot of artificially
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programmatic content fill every
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available space because the tech bros
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and all that they're going to move very
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very quickly in order to do that at
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least that's the way it seems right and
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so it's going to be more and more
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important that you have the skill of
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people in space not just oh well I got
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my index cards in space but you actually
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know where in your community people are
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in case things get wild online and it
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looks like that's the way it's going to
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be now why does spatial memory
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optimization and
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physicalization of content work so well
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well memory scientists don't exactly
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know i think part of the answer is in
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Koslin's the case for mental imagery i
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know that a lot of people don't agree
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with his thesis but I think actually
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it's not that I agree with it or
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disagree with it i think it's one piece
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of what he's talking about that gets to
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the core of it now I don't want to chew
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up time on memory science and stuff like
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that right now but even Klene was
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talking about the problem of digital
00:21:51
dementia recently on the Lex Friedman
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podcast and so you know I've had all
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kinds of theories over the years and
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I've talked about them many times on the
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channel before it's just common sense
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that where something is in a book that
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you've read right is a lot easier to
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figure out if it's a physical one where
00:22:10
is halfway through a Kindle book right a
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Kindle book that currently you no longer
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have the right to download and import on
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other devices at least that's the way
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things were as of last week maybe these
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uh corporations that are responsible for
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that changed their mind i don't know but
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this is the thing with digital it's not
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just that they're controlled by people
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uh that have nothing at all remotely
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related to your interests in mind it's
00:22:36
that there is no middle of a Kindle book
00:22:38
but here I can tell you that it's near
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the end that Lynn Kelly makes a
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particular point i remember that it was
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at the end even without using memory
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techniques because that's how spatial
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memory works right and it's a very very
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important part when I think of various
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notes in my memory palaces or in my
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index cards I know where they are in
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space and that additional
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physicality helps me find it without
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even having to go and get the physical
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thing that's how memory palaces work
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especially when they're based on real
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locations because those spaces have
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depth single screen devices do not
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either way the research and the
00:23:18
commentary including people like Ezra
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Klein are on my side of this position in
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any case your mileage may differ i know
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that there are people who tell me "Oh
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but I'm just fine." Usually they have
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anonymous user accounts and they have no
00:23:33
particular accomplishment to
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share but if you like the digital thing
00:23:37
that's okay just keep this warning in
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mind for the day when you might wish
00:23:42
that you had physical books a library
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that you built so that nobody can change
00:23:46
it and that you have a library that you
00:23:50
can think about spatially in order to
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help use the memory palace technique
00:23:55
better because of things that I talk
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about in the magnetic memory method
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master class that let you turn every
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page in a book into a memory palace i'm
00:24:03
not going to apologize for this point i
00:24:05
have been able to learn and achieve so
00:24:07
much more by being stubborn about it in
00:24:09
my own practice even though it's more
00:24:11
challenging i have tried digital devices
00:24:14
and I've done it for quite a few years
00:24:16
but I gave up digital learning almost
00:24:18
entirely in 2017 because I saw how
00:24:21
detrimental it had become to my memory
00:24:24
and so when I got back into being more
00:24:26
of a purist in applying the habit of
00:24:29
learning to physical media everything
00:24:32
changed back to strength upon strength
00:24:34
upon strength so I've got one more tip
00:24:37
for you but if you'd like a few
00:24:39
exercises that go far beyond the Fineman
00:24:42
technique for helping you teach yourself
00:24:44
I've put together my free self-education
00:24:48
blueprint that's going to help you turn
00:24:50
what you learn into real world expertise
00:24:52
so please don't miss it you can get it
00:24:54
at magneticmary
00:24:56
method.comb which is for selfeducation
00:24:59
blueprint now if you find that the
00:25:02
self-education blueprint and what I'm
00:25:04
saying with you today
00:25:07
is reasonable but it still doesn't help
00:25:10
you change i would love for you to have
00:25:15
an additional resource which you can
00:25:17
watch just by sticking with me now on
00:25:20
YouTube or if you're listening to the
00:25:21
podcast look up my list of books on
00:25:23
learning i've been locked in to patterns
00:25:26
that refused to let me go in my past
00:25:29
there's perfectly scientific
00:25:31
explanations that help me understand why
00:25:34
that that happened to myself and others
00:25:37
and these books on learning will help
00:25:38
release you from it if you are also
00:25:41
stuck and you can't get yourself to move
00:25:44
I think this is a list of books that
00:25:45
everybody should read which is why I put
00:25:47
it together for you and I do share more
00:25:49
of my struggle and how that one idea in
00:25:53
particular from one of the most powerful
00:25:54
books in that list helped me stop
00:25:57
beating myself up about how I wasn't
00:25:59
getting anything done and allowed me to
00:26:02
get on a path of action and it has
00:26:06
continued ever since almost unabated
00:26:08
even though life seems to get more and
00:26:10
more challenging right isn't that weird
00:26:13
but nonetheless power moves forward and
00:26:16
that's because it's power not force all
00:26:18
right so I got one last power tip for
00:26:20
you today speaking about power I would
00:26:24
suggest in addition to following up with
00:26:26
the resources that I've offered for you
00:26:28
today is that you get really involved in
00:26:32
words words that you can wield like a
00:26:36
shield and operate like a boomerang now
00:26:40
it may be that you get a copy of Norman
00:26:42
Lewis's Word Power Made Easy or maybe
00:26:44
you get involved one day when I open it
00:26:46
up again in my weekly Word Warrior
00:26:49
program but I want you to do whatever it
00:26:52
takes to start studying words practice
00:26:55
memorizing individual words and their
00:26:58
meanings to create a shield but a shield
00:27:02
that you can throw from yourself so that
00:27:05
you don't get hung up on semantics and
00:27:07
that you are also able to share with
00:27:10
others in a non-semantic way studying
00:27:13
words what they have meant what they
00:27:15
could mean in the future the flexible
00:27:17
ways that they can be used will improve
00:27:20
your rhetoric and it will improve how
00:27:23
you understand the rhetoric of others so
00:27:26
you can practice questioning better and
00:27:28
when you can question better on the
00:27:31
basis of how people make meaning and you
00:27:34
supplement whatever digital archive
00:27:36
you're building with physical archives
00:27:39
that help you both complicate and
00:27:41
simplify everything you're going to find
00:27:45
that the words are more powerful than
00:27:48
you ever imagined possible and you will
00:27:52
have your own library in your mind that
00:27:56
helps you grow and stack growth upon
00:28:00
growth upon growth because you have a
00:28:02
fallen of shields and you know what a
00:28:04
phallank is so grab the self-education
00:28:07
blueprint watch my books on learning
00:28:10
next and with thanks as always until we
00:28:13
have a chance to speak again keep
00:28:15
yourself magnetic
