Memory & Learning Breakthrough: It Turns Out That The Ancients Were Right
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Have you ever wondered…
What’s the fastest, most effective way to learn?
What’s the secret to remembering what you learn?
When it comes to learning how to learn, these are the big questions. If you have a better answer to them, you will be more successful. Period.
Learning faster than others is the ultimate, lasting competitive advantage. Self-made billionaire Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s long-time business partner, captures this truism in the following quote:
“Without Warren Buffett being a learning machine, the [Berkshire Hathaway investing] record would have been absolutely impossible. The same is true at lower walks of life. I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they’re learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than when they get up.”
This is why I’ve spent the last several years researching, writing about, and teaching the subject of learning how to learn to thousands of students and more than ten million readers.
As time has passed, a few methods have proven particularly life-changing and have now become pillars of my daily learning routine. These include the practices of:
- Collecting the most useful, universal, and timeless mental models in the world to build a base of rare and valuable knowledge that is instantly practical, applies across domains, will never expire, and that will compound — all to become a modern polymath.
- Using the 5-Hour Rule to set aside a minimum of 5 hours per week (typically 25 for me) for deliberate…
