Learning | Decision Making
Jim Kwik’s FAST Method Will Help You Learn Faster
You can also use it as a decision-making tool
Growing up, Jim Kwik was everything but a quick learner. At the age of five, he suffered a brain injury that won him the title of The Kid with the Broken Brain. Compared to other children, he needed an extra three years to learn how to read.
It was only decades later that Kwik started to live up to his name.
As he started to fail college, Jim became obsessed with learning how to learn. So he turned his attention to studying the human brain and its secrets. He spent years experimenting with memory-enhancing techniques and learning methods.
As of 2021, Jim is a world-class brain coach who works with Hollywood actors, elite athletes, and companies like SpaceX. His teachings involve different methods, and FAST is one of the most popular ones.
What is FAST?
The acronym stands for Forget, Active, State, and Teach. We’ll unpack each word in the following sections and explain they can help you to accelerate your learning process.
In the meantime, note that FAST applies to learning anything from martial arts, to writing, to cooking, to speaking Japanese. I also came…
