How To Learn Anything 10x Faster Than Anyone With AI

most people don't know how to learn

because they fry their brain with

podcasts and YouTube videos and books

and textbooks and social media and 6

months later after learning so much they

have nothing to show for it why are you

even learning in the first place if not

to do something with it learning for

most people has become a form of mental

masturbation it's the same cheap

dopamine you get from scrolling on your

phone but even worse because it makes

you feel as if you're learning something

but the reality is you'll forget about

it by tomorrow now here's the harsh

truth you're learning slow and if you

can learn 10 times faster you can

achieve success faster you can complete

the portfolio project you can start the

business you can articulate your

thoughts in your writing or whatever it

is that you're learning even further

it's my belief that most people are just

wasting time you can probably learn what

you need to learn within 2 weeks when

most people take 6 months to learn that

one thing so to do that you need to

learn how to learn and that's what we're

going to talk about in this video we're

going to cover these topics the protoge

effect andan technique how to optimize

for pattern recognition which is very

important how to use AI to speed up the

process and Project based learning so

you actually do something and you

solidify the knowledge so this is going

to be a very practical video my other

ones are more philosophical more

abstract this is just like straight

here's how you learn so please be ready

to take out your notes cuz we're going

to go over practical examples with

screen recordings and everything and by

the end of this you should have a clear

path to learning any skill that matters

fast so let's start with this previous

tweet of mine when I want to learn

something new I don't start learning

first I outline a project first then I

learn exactly what I need and build out

the project while learning I found that

this solidifies teachings into my brain

much faster the mark of a free person is

that they learn how to learn that is the

meta skill that is the skill of all

skills is if you're in order to pick up

a skill that changes your life you need

to know how to learn that skill

effectively so that you can use it

because if you don't choose what to

learn you will be told what to learn and

if your mind is the operating system for

reality the options available for your

future will be drastically limited and

you won't even realize it more

importantly the most important thing you

can do when the world is rapidly

changing like it is with technology and

AI is learn learn learning is the single

most important skill because it allows

you to learn the skills that can't be

taught in schools cuz the schools are

they're just this big system this big

maybe outdated system that take a long

time to catch up with the times changing

a curriculum is a lot slower than

someone who learns the topic fast makes

a YouTube video on it for you to learn

even faster and if you can keep up with

that if you can keep up and adapt with

the latest skills that are coming in

adding them to your tool belt you can do

some incredible things so the first step

to learning how to learn is to create a

map of your ideal life because I've

watched countless tutorials not only

researching for this video but learning

how to learn myself in the past I've

watched countless videos listen to

countless podcasts of people teaching

how to study or learn it seems like the

missing piece is that they just don't go

over why you're learning in the first

place people choose something to learn

but it doesn't connect to any of their

current skills and doesn't connect to

the life they want to live this is

dangerous you won't want to learn if

there is no deeper meaning or Clarity

behind it you will need more discipline

and you'll probably continue to hate

learning like you did in school or

you'll feel like your learning is for

the sole purpose of getting a job or

career that you didn't care about in the

first place so that's step one to create

an aim for your learning that way you

can feel the progress you are making

toward your self-generated goals not the

goals Society assigned to you that is a

major Key of Life enjoyment and I'll

spare you the psychology around that

that go read the book flow by Mii chiet

me high and you'll understand what I'm

saying here if you don't enjoy what

you're learning and you just feel like

you're learning to do something that was

expected of you since you were a kid

that your parents wanted for you or that

Society wanted for you you're not going

to enjoy it and that alone is going to

hurt how much you learn people who enjoy

learning something can be so much better

at people who are just innately smart so

we're going to do something very fun

here to create an aim for your future

we're just going to map this out you

don't have to do this inside of Cortex

but there is a template available for

you to download to fill these things out

now this is going to get extremely fun

with the AI prompt we have and so many

people have enjoyed using this prompt

because you you'll see what I mean but

first you're going to dissect your day

your current what you do every single

day so these are just examples for me

but in the morning you break down the

activities you do and how you feel while

you're doing this that part isn't too

important you can honestly just delete

this section if you want to the

important section is here so what do you

not want out of life and what do you

want out of life so you should get more

specific than I do here or else the AI

prompt is going to yell at you to get

more specific we've talked about vision

and anti- vision many times in many

videos now you're going to break it down

you're going to gain Clarity because a

higher Ary of goals frames your mind for

what you are going to learn if you don't

have these things written down when you

go to learn something you aren't going

to know how to apply it to your goals

because you don't have goals you just

have the goal of going to school getting

a job so the only thing your mind is

trying to pick up as information fuels

that goal so generate your own goals

here what skills and knowledge you need

to acquire in order to achieve them

which will also help shape your learning

and what you decide to learn and then

are there distractions standing in the

way now you can go even further so each

week what I would recommend doing is

duplicating this specific part so what

went well last week what didn't go well

you can write down gratitude goals for

this week uh different connections

inside of your workspace if you want to

and then every day you can write out

your tasks and I can duplicate this as

well change this to Tuesday so on and so

forth so when you have your plan your

life plan you can rename this template

to my life plan but if we go over to

chats what I can do is create a new chat

and we're going to use this document

you'll see how but we're also going to

go to my prompts you can also find a

link to this in the description and

we're going to go to the Strategic

advisor prompt here and what this says

is so cool it's act as my personal

strategic advisor with the following

context you have an IQ of 180 you're

brutally honest and direct you built

multiple billion dollar companies you

have deep expertise in Psychology

strategy and execution etc etc your

mission is to identify the critical gaps

holding me back design specific action

plans to close those gaps push me beyond

my comfort zone etc for each response

start with the hard truth I need to hear

follow a specific actionable steps end

with a direct challeng or assignment now

this is important because your strategic

advisor here is going to identify blind

spots and you can just talk to it the

entire time as you're learning things

with the prompts we're also going to

talk about later in this video for

creating something like a study guide

for the skill you're trying to learn so

I do have to mention that this was found

from a pollinator 3000 on Twitter uh

it's just a really good prompt I really

enjoy it so we're going to take this

we're going to copy dang it I can't copy

stuff okay command C we're going to

press tab to toggle on Kai which is new

cortex AI pretty cool but again you can

copy paste this into chat GPT whatever

I'm just showing it here because it's my

software right but we're going to enter

this and it's going to respond when it's

ready and it says okay I'm ready and I'm

going to say I want you to review at my

life

plan and help me achieve my goals what

do I need to do it's going to go over

it and it just rips you

apart now this is pretty long I'm not

going to read this entire thing uh but

this life plan is a scattered collection

of thoughts not a strategic road map

prioritize ruthlessly with the action

rewrite your goals identify your

bottleneck systematize your health in

relationships eliminate distractions

Focus projects by tomorrow rewrite your

life plan with the following one primary

goal revise secondary goals clear Define

smart goals identification of your

bottleneck a list of focused projects

don't come back until you've done the

work and then you can just keep talking

to this as we go so that was step one so

after you have your life plan your aim

your frame for learning that's important

that optimizes pattern recognition to an

extent so you can notice the right

information so you aren't learning the

wrong thing step two is to outline a

project listen to this carefully the

best way to learn is to build a real

world project and only search for

information when you need it how much

you learn is directly correlated with

how much progress you make on the

project when you watch endless tutorials

you fill your mind with noise and Chaos

most of that information goes to waste

it leads to overwhelm anxiety and slows

down how fast you learn when it comes

time to build the project the only

reason you're learning in the first

place you feel as if you learned nothing

and have to search for the information

anyway so if you want to learn faster

skip the tutorial phase outline the

project first and now you don't

necessarily need to skip the tutorial

phase you just need to start the project

and hit that struggling point and then

when you go into the tutorial phase you

you actually pick up the information now

when I say outline a project or create a

project this tends to confuse some

people a project can be anything your

health can be a project your body body

can be a project your relationship can

be a project your business can be a

project an image in Photoshop can be a

project a website for your portfolio can

be a project a project is simply a

structured way of achieving a goal or

making progress toward a goal it's a way

to further narrow your frame of

reference so your mind biases the right

information as you learn and again this

continues to optimize pattern

recognition as you read books study

tutorials or have conversations good

dopamine will spurt into your brain to

signal that information is important for

the completion of the project your

subconscious will munch on problems and

send relevant ideas to your conscious

mind this is what creatives call shower

thoughts it's when the default mode

network is active in your brain while at

quote unquote rest think of when you're

on a walk or even more prevalent for

most people is when you're about to fall

asleep late at night and you're working

on a project and idea ideas keep you up

and you can't stop typing them into your

phone if you haven't experienced that

yeah it sucks to not be able to sleep

but it feels so good because that's when

the ideas come the most when you're not

focused on work when your brain isn't in

that task positive Network Charles

Darwin as an example worked on his

projects in focused blocks then went on

long walks on these walks his brain was

at rest and potential solutions to

problems pop into his head when I write

newsletters as a small project within a

bigger project of my business I outline

the newsletter at the start of the week

I don't just write my newsletters Allin

one go this is a weekly process process

the outline creates my frame of

reference I outline it and then as I'm

writing it day by day slowly and going

on walks and listening to stuff and

researching for the newsletter or a book

or whatever it is then novel ideas come

to my mind that I can use to write if I

were to just sit down and try to spit

out what's in my brain Allin one go it

could be good but I'm not necessarily

learning anything or doing anything

unique so when you have a project

outline if you do it in cortex you can

just open up your phone mobile apps

coming soon which is awesome and you can

type at or plus to connect to that

specific document that you're creating

the outline in and you can just save

ideas there you can save ideas without

having AI respond to you then they're

right there when you sit down to fill

out the outline of your project and you

can also just talk to Kai and be like

okay how do I do this part how do I do

this part so here's how you start a

project choose something to build that

moves the needle toward what you want in

life from earlier create a note or

document and brain dump everything that

comes to mind save three to five sources

of inspiration that you want to emulate

so if I'm creating a YouTube video as a

project I would save three to five

YouTube videos I would want to create

similar iterations of this part is so

important even when you're creating

Photoshop or art or something like that

as a beginner or tweets or writing

anything a book a a a course whatever it

may be you start by pulling certain

parts of those things into your own

project so you're not necessarily

starting from scratch you're just just

not starting with a tutorial you're

trying to imitate intelligent imitation

you're trying to pull from multiple

sources to create your own thing and

then as you go and hit sticking points

that's when you learn best now with this

you want to study those sources and

break down their structure or

characteristics then outline the project

into sections Milestones images

inspiration and what you need to know in

order to complete it and then of course

have a place to capture ideas that come

to mind preferably somewhere you don't

lose the ideas or forget about them you

can do this in Apple notes or todoist or

notion or any of those things now after

outlining a project step three is to

start with what you know because

learning comes from struggle not

memorization if you know nothing at

least try to take the first step

download the software and start playing

around try to create something anything

just get your mind in a state where it's

hungry to learn otherwise you probably

won't digest the information you search

for then follow this process you start

then you don't know what to do you try

and fail you search for the answer or

ask AI you try to implement the answer

you repeat until the project is complete

and if you can't find the answer you ask

an expert so a few years ago Google

searching was considered a skill being

able to type the right things into

Google to get the answer that you need

or being able to search Reddit or stack

Overflow if you're a programmer or

things like that now that AI has all of

that information prompt engineering is

becoming the new Google search in a

sense we're going to talk about AI as a

skill in the next video and how to learn

this prompt engineering that I'm talking

about because it's one of the new modern

skills that you can pair with any other

skill to Future proof yourself to an

extent because I believe it was the

founder of Nvidia who said machines

aren't going to replace people people

using machines are going to replace

people so if you learn how to use AI

Beyond just typing a sentence into it

you're setting yourself up quite well so

as an example if I'm building a project

or just an image in Photoshop and I get

stuck right I start I don't know what to

do I'm kind of just like trying out

different tools and then I can't create

it and let's say I want to remove a

background from an image I know nothing

about Photoshop right then I can just

type into Kai or AI in general and say

how do I remove the background of an

image in Photoshop and it will give me a

few different options that I can try

then I succeed and because I'm

struggling and my brain wanted to learn

that thing it kind of locks it in into

place a lot better and then you continue

on with the project and you keep going

so I can continue to ask more questions

like what are Selections in masks in

Photoshop how do I make a selection on

this type of image I was doing this the

other day where I was like in Premiere

editing something and I didn't know how

to do it so I pressed option C to open

up like a floating AI Pane and I just

asked really quick how do I get through

this and then I got through it and I was

able to edit a lot faster without having

to go through 10 different articles on

Google to find the answer so after

starting step 3.5 is how to start when

you don't feel like starting because

that's a big problem for a lot of people

is they just don't want to start so they

never do the zynic effect is a

psychological phenomenon where people

remember unfinished tasks more than

completed tasks meaning if we don't

complete tasks for our projects it's

much easier to find the motivation to

get started but how did you get started

from scratch so there's a trick here

that I learned from Justin Sun who is

another YouTuber who talks about

learning and he calls this the zynic

squared effect or the zaric effect

squared either one in other words you

want to kind of invoke the zynic effect

by starting easy tasks before getting

started on your project because if you

start those tasks then they'll be

unfinished and you'll want to continue

working on them and they lead naturally

into the task that you need to work on

so this could be something like setting

up your desk like literally coming and

cleaning your desk or I make coffee in

the morning and I come sit down or some

kind of ritual or routine that allows

you to just get into the thing when I

don't want to write my newsletter I just

go into the outline and I just promise

myself that I'm going to start looking

at it reading it uh typing up some ideas

that come to mind and then eventually I

hit something and I'm like okay I can

keep writing this thing so you don't

necessarily have to start doing what you

were doing before you just have to kind

of go into it start playing around a bit

and then once you start doing something

or mess with something you want to

continue doing it so for something like

going to the gym right if you're trying

to learn Fitness maybe you just go and

start walking on the treadmill there

like you just say I'm going to go walk

for 5 minutes and if I don't feel like

it doing anything here I'm going to

leave and most of the time you won't

leave if you have Clarity on what you're

doing remember hierarchy of goals you

need to know what to do and if you don't

know what to do then you need to study

right bring AI to the gym and just be

like hey what exercise should I do next

in uh this chest workout routine okay so

we're going to go back into the prompts

again and we're going to find the study

regimen prompt and we're going to take

this and we're going to open a new chat

you can rename these as well if you want

to keep them organized I'm just showing

you something you can name one strategic

adviser like I have here that you can go

back to and chat with when you need it

you can go back to your discipline coach

whenever you need to start the task and

now your study regimen you're going to

paste this in here and you're going to

place replace this part the topic with

whatever you want to learn so I'm going

to say storytelling then we're going to

send this here and I'll make this full

screen so you can actually see it once

it's done generating but what we have

here close the prompt library is a

60-day storytelling regimen according to

the prompt so the prompt was to give me

one bestselling book One technical book

multiple YouTube videos three to five

interest that complement the main topic

that I can explore as supplementary

education for fun because you don't

always just want to learn this like go

through this boring grind of learning

the information you want to learn

complimentary things that fill in the

gaps of what you're learning now what

you do here inside of this chat that you

can rename to study partner is you're

going to go through here and this is how

you're going to learn and I've gone

through this multiple times I've tested

it it actually gives you good

information and good books to go into so

phase one is immersion and Foundations

weeks one and two so you're going to

read the book story style structure

substance Etc why it's a Cornerstone

text action steps read two to three

chapters a day take notes on key

Concepts and you can take notes either

in this chat or in a document and

connect it to it and ask it to quiz it

on you you can say if you take notes

inside of a document here you can say

quiz me on at whatever the document is

and it will take it into context and

then also in that first phase the

YouTube video you're going to watch is

here Phase 2 technical application 3 to4

phase 3 creative exploration where you

can go through all of this phase 4

refinement and practice this so on and

so forth and it has action steps you can

take to actually learn storytelling and

it says okay let me know when you're

ready to dive into the first phase or if

you'd like to adjust any part of this

let's just say let's dive into the first

phase then it'll

go all right it just breaks down the

first phase that's awesome now I

actually want to find this YouTube video

here so I can show you how you could get

personalized study help on that thing

because with Kai you can talk to your

highlights or other things inside of

here and you can add YouTube videos with

a link to pull the transcript in from

them okay we're actually I'm going to

give this as an example because I've

actually listened to Brandon sanderson's

lectures on writing Science Fiction and

Fantasy because I want to personally

write a fable so I'm going to turn Kai

off just so I can save this in here but

what this does is it adds this to my

library so now I can access the

transcript and it's right here so I can

turn on Kai and I can say uh give me the

key points of this video and I can even

break it down and go deeper into the

actual uh timestamps of that specific

thing so if I listen to this video on a

walk and I want to be quizzed on a

specific timestamp related to it I'll

just say can you quiz me on these key

points and then I can go through here

and ask questions I can answer the

questions and then just get quizzed as

my study partner so now we have three

things inside of here we have the

Strategic advisor we have the discipline

coach and we have the study regimen so

those three things combined while

creating your project that you can

oscillate between really enhance your

learning now how do you actually

structure how you learn because we only

have so much time in a day the best way

in my opinion to do this is in three

different focused blocks the first is 30

to 90 minutes of building so you build

your project and search for information

information when you need it the second

is 30 to 60 minutes of learning so you

follow your study regimen and take notes

on what you learn and you can review

these notes by asking your notes to be

summarized in Kai that's actually one

thing I forgot to show you here is that

you can turn off Kai and you can capture

your notes to this specific thing you

can take all of your notes on a specific

video or on the topic in here and then

you can ask Kai to summarize what's in

the chat because it takes the entire

your chat into context now the last

block is 30 minutes of walking this way

you can listen to YouTube videos

audiobooks or lectures so go on a walk

and jot down ideas on your phone as they

come to mind those are your Keystone

habits that's when all of the learning

happens and the thing here is that

nobody is going to give you the time to

learn and build what you want to learn

and build you have to take the time put

them on your calender wake up an hour

earlier or stay up an hour later turn it

into a ritual grab your coffee pull up

your outline put on some focus music and

start Paving the way toward the future

you want to create so that's how you

learn in a nutshell but we can take it

even further with a few other Concepts

and to do this we write to

systematically reflect on what we learn

so here's the puzzle you know what you

want for your future you have a project

or a series of projects that will take

you there and you are learning and

building daily but there's one missing

piece and it turns out it's also a way

to further enhance how much you learn

the missing piece is people who care

about what You're Building because I'm

assuming that you want to do this

full-time you're learning and building

because you want that to turn into some

kind of sustainable life you want to

replace your job or career with a

calling an obsession and to do that you

need money at least enough to sustain

your ideal life you don't need millions

of dollars you just need enough to make

money you need people to care about what

you're building to make people care

about what you're building you need to

show what you're doing in public and in

most cases the best way to do that is

writing teaching what you know and what

you're learning as you build if you want

a master class in this go follow a Peter

levels or levels.io on Twitter where

he's just building out a game with AI

right now and he's just doing it in

public and he's adding features that his

followers wanted and by doing this

you're attracting people to what you

build so that they one care about it and

two you have an audience now that wants

to support you now why writing first

thing is that it's the foundation of

media and two it's accessible and anyone

can start writing right now no video

editing skills required and three it

holds much more power than just building

an audience of supporters writing is how

you systematically reflect on what you

learn when you teach what you learn you

expose more knowledge gaps you struggle

more to understand you have more

specific knowledge to research so this

is where the Fineman technique and

protoe effect come into play the Fineman

technique is a learning method

popularized by physicist Richard Fineman

in short it's about deeply understanding

a concept by explaining it in simple

terms as if you were teaching it to

someone with no prior knowledge so to do

this you choose a concept so you select

the topic you want to understand you

teach it you explain the concept in

simple language as if you were teaching

it to a child and then you identify gaps

so when you struggle to explain

something clearly identify the areas

where your understanding is weak last

you review and simplify so go back to

the source material or you're learning

you relearn the concepts and then try

explaining them again in even simpler

terms now this overlaps with What's

called the Protege effect which in short

is the teacher learns more than the

student teaching what you know or what

you learn encourages you to make sense

of it in your own way to finally string

it together in your own mind so that you

can that's learning and by doing this it

exposes even more gaps in your knowledge

because if I'm talking to a camera and

then I watch back over it or I Stumble

over my words right now I have something

to improve I have something to learn

more what this does is it increases the

effect of pattern recognition life

becomes more enjoyable and serendipitous

because you notice more things in life

that can help you achieve the projects

or goals that you set your mind to you

learn more just from living so how do we

merge both of these with what you're

already learning you do it by writing on

the internet now we talk about this in

quite a few videos quite a lot of them

but I'm not talking about becoming a

content creator I'm talking about

treating social social media as your

public Journal rather than a place to

just distract yourself in that way you

at least have a chance at attracting

potential supporters customers employers

investors team members and anything else

you would need to reach the life you

want this is why it's so powerful

learning building writing to

systematically reflect on your on what

you learn in public so people value what

you're learning and building and it just

doubles down on the effect of learning

it's less about building following and

more about putting your work in front of

other people like when you're trying to

meet new people it's never going to

happen if you don't get out of your

house and you'll grow bitter and angry

wondering why you're all alone it's

obvious why because you haven't given

people a chance to know or care about

you your chances of success are zero so

here's what I recommend for starting

write a newsletter once a week to

summarize what you've learned and

remember teach it to them teach what

you're learning this is how so many

people start newsletters or social media

is they just use it as a place to share

what they're learning that week some

people's bios on social media is are

literally just sharing what I learn on

the way to whatever the goal is sahil

Bloom millions of followers on Twitter

his bio for the longest time was like

the exploring my curiosity and sharing

what I learn along the way your bio

doesn't matter here what matters is the

content is it interesting are you

teaching it literally start the

newsletter or post go search on YouTube

pay attention to these things as they

pop up on your timeline so you can

replicate them is like I learned about

this insane concept this week it's

called the zynic effect and it's the

best way to overcome procrastination

here's what you do share what you

learned in this video share anything

that you learn you give credit where

credits due when it's needed but most of

the time if you're just teaching a

concept or something like that and

weaving it in with your personal

experience that that just helps your

learning so much more the third thing is

to just write posts on X threads or

LinkedIn because these are just writing

platforms you can do any platform but

the these are writing platforms talk

about your opinions beliefs personal

experiences and what you are learning

and building then tack on social media

as a skill you need to learn the same

way as taught in this video then add one

more 30 to 60 Minute time block for

writing every morning now if these time

blocks are starting to add up you can

split them across different days so you

can learn on Monday build on Tuesday

write on Wednesday and then walk on each

of those days to soak in more

information and then during all of this

ask or AI in general or chat gbt or

Claude to help you as you write so an

example is you are an expert at crafting

engaging social post what's the best way

to start a post on this topic that I'm

learning and continue from there so

personally writing changed my life I was

once a freelance web designer who failed

at every business prior to that and I

started on social media because I was

tired of doing cold Outreach to land

freelance clients and as I kept going I

I realized the power of writing in in

terms of getting in front of more people

not only on social media but what about

my landing pages right if I'm not doing

cold emails and sending those things

people are how are people getting to me

right they're going to my profile

they're reading some of my content

they're going to my website my landing

page whatever it may be and that way I

didn't have to get rejected as much for

reaching out to people cold I just

shared what I knew and what I was

learning in web design and what I was

building you go and follow programmers

or designers and they're just sharing

their work and if that work is good they

gain a following if it's not good then

you have direct feedback if you aren't

gaining a following then you can do

better but for me with social media it

wasn't just about the freelance work it

was about how much I was learning every

time I hit post it felt like I had

learned something new like for the

longest time when I was a kid I would

just look up to people who were very

articulate and knowledgeable about

certain things and then whenever I would

read something like a book and I thought

it was really good but then I tried to

explain it in my own words and I was

like I I I can't do do this it's just

not coming to mind I didn't actually

learn the thing but as I started writing

and like writing is Legos with ideas so

when I'm piecing these things together

and I'm able to kind of just play with

the thoughts on screen then it makes it

so much easier to learn because it's not

just like I'm trying to do it on the

spot as I'm speaking so the more that I

wrote the more good things happened

internally and externally so I hope that

you can experience that as well that is

it for this video I hope you learned how

to learn I hope hope you go on to

continue learning if you want something

to learn because you still don't know

what to learn check out 2hour writer or

the oneperson business Launchpad or any

of that stuff Link in the description or

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