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most people don't know how to learn
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because they fry their brain with
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podcasts and YouTube videos and books
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and textbooks and social media and 6
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months later after learning so much they
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have nothing to show for it why are you
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even learning in the first place if not
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to do something with it learning for
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most people has become a form of mental
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masturbation it's the same cheap
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dopamine you get from scrolling on your
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phone but even worse because it makes
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you feel as if you're learning something
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but the reality is you'll forget about
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it by tomorrow now here's the harsh
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truth you're learning slow and if you
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can learn 10 times faster you can
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achieve success faster you can complete
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the portfolio project you can start the
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business you can articulate your
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thoughts in your writing or whatever it
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is that you're learning even further
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it's my belief that most people are just
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wasting time you can probably learn what
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you need to learn within 2 weeks when
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most people take 6 months to learn that
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one thing so to do that you need to
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learn how to learn and that's what we're
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going to talk about in this video we're
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going to cover these topics the protoge
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effect andan technique how to optimize
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for pattern recognition which is very
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important how to use AI to speed up the
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process and Project based learning so
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you actually do something and you
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solidify the knowledge so this is going
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to be a very practical video my other
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ones are more philosophical more
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abstract this is just like straight
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here's how you learn so please be ready
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to take out your notes cuz we're going
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to go over practical examples with
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screen recordings and everything and by
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the end of this you should have a clear
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path to learning any skill that matters
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fast so let's start with this previous
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tweet of mine when I want to learn
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something new I don't start learning
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first I outline a project first then I
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learn exactly what I need and build out
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the project while learning I found that
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this solidifies teachings into my brain
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much faster the mark of a free person is
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that they learn how to learn that is the
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meta skill that is the skill of all
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skills is if you're in order to pick up
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a skill that changes your life you need
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to know how to learn that skill
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effectively so that you can use it
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because if you don't choose what to
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learn you will be told what to learn and
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if your mind is the operating system for
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reality the options available for your
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future will be drastically limited and
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you won't even realize it more
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importantly the most important thing you
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can do when the world is rapidly
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changing like it is with technology and
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AI is learn learn learning is the single
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most important skill because it allows
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you to learn the skills that can't be
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taught in schools cuz the schools are
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they're just this big system this big
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maybe outdated system that take a long
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time to catch up with the times changing
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a curriculum is a lot slower than
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someone who learns the topic fast makes
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a YouTube video on it for you to learn
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even faster and if you can keep up with
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that if you can keep up and adapt with
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the latest skills that are coming in
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adding them to your tool belt you can do
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some incredible things so the first step
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to learning how to learn is to create a
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map of your ideal life because I've
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watched countless tutorials not only
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researching for this video but learning
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how to learn myself in the past I've
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watched countless videos listen to
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countless podcasts of people teaching
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how to study or learn it seems like the
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missing piece is that they just don't go
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over why you're learning in the first
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place people choose something to learn
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but it doesn't connect to any of their
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current skills and doesn't connect to
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the life they want to live this is
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dangerous you won't want to learn if
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there is no deeper meaning or Clarity
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behind it you will need more discipline
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and you'll probably continue to hate
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learning like you did in school or
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you'll feel like your learning is for
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the sole purpose of getting a job or
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career that you didn't care about in the
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first place so that's step one to create
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an aim for your learning that way you
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can feel the progress you are making
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toward your self-generated goals not the
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goals Society assigned to you that is a
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major Key of Life enjoyment and I'll
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spare you the psychology around that
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that go read the book flow by Mii chiet
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me high and you'll understand what I'm
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saying here if you don't enjoy what
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you're learning and you just feel like
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you're learning to do something that was
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expected of you since you were a kid
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that your parents wanted for you or that
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Society wanted for you you're not going
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to enjoy it and that alone is going to
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hurt how much you learn people who enjoy
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learning something can be so much better
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at people who are just innately smart so
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we're going to do something very fun
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here to create an aim for your future
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we're just going to map this out you
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don't have to do this inside of Cortex
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but there is a template available for
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you to download to fill these things out
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now this is going to get extremely fun
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with the AI prompt we have and so many
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people have enjoyed using this prompt
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because you you'll see what I mean but
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first you're going to dissect your day
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your current what you do every single
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day so these are just examples for me
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but in the morning you break down the
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activities you do and how you feel while
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you're doing this that part isn't too
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important you can honestly just delete
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this section if you want to the
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important section is here so what do you
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not want out of life and what do you
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want out of life so you should get more
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specific than I do here or else the AI
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prompt is going to yell at you to get
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more specific we've talked about vision
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and anti- vision many times in many
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videos now you're going to break it down
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you're going to gain Clarity because a
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higher Ary of goals frames your mind for
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what you are going to learn if you don't
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have these things written down when you
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go to learn something you aren't going
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to know how to apply it to your goals
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because you don't have goals you just
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have the goal of going to school getting
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a job so the only thing your mind is
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trying to pick up as information fuels
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that goal so generate your own goals
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here what skills and knowledge you need
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to acquire in order to achieve them
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which will also help shape your learning
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and what you decide to learn and then
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are there distractions standing in the
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way now you can go even further so each
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week what I would recommend doing is
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duplicating this specific part so what
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went well last week what didn't go well
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you can write down gratitude goals for
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this week uh different connections
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inside of your workspace if you want to
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and then every day you can write out
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your tasks and I can duplicate this as
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well change this to Tuesday so on and so
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forth so when you have your plan your
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life plan you can rename this template
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to my life plan but if we go over to
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chats what I can do is create a new chat
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and we're going to use this document
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you'll see how but we're also going to
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go to my prompts you can also find a
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link to this in the description and
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we're going to go to the Strategic
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advisor prompt here and what this says
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is so cool it's act as my personal
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strategic advisor with the following
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context you have an IQ of 180 you're
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brutally honest and direct you built
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multiple billion dollar companies you
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have deep expertise in Psychology
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strategy and execution etc etc your
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mission is to identify the critical gaps
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holding me back design specific action
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plans to close those gaps push me beyond
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my comfort zone etc for each response
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start with the hard truth I need to hear
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follow a specific actionable steps end
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with a direct challeng or assignment now
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this is important because your strategic
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advisor here is going to identify blind
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spots and you can just talk to it the
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entire time as you're learning things
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with the prompts we're also going to
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talk about later in this video for
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creating something like a study guide
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for the skill you're trying to learn so
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I do have to mention that this was found
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from a pollinator 3000 on Twitter uh
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it's just a really good prompt I really
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enjoy it so we're going to take this
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we're going to copy dang it I can't copy
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stuff okay command C we're going to
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press tab to toggle on Kai which is new
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cortex AI pretty cool but again you can
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copy paste this into chat GPT whatever
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I'm just showing it here because it's my
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software right but we're going to enter
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this and it's going to respond when it's
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ready and it says okay I'm ready and I'm
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going to say I want you to review at my
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plan and help me achieve my goals what
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do I need to do it's going to go over
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it and it just rips you
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apart now this is pretty long I'm not
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going to read this entire thing uh but
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this life plan is a scattered collection
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of thoughts not a strategic road map
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prioritize ruthlessly with the action
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rewrite your goals identify your
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bottleneck systematize your health in
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relationships eliminate distractions
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Focus projects by tomorrow rewrite your
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life plan with the following one primary
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goal revise secondary goals clear Define
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smart goals identification of your
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bottleneck a list of focused projects
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don't come back until you've done the
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work and then you can just keep talking
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to this as we go so that was step one so
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after you have your life plan your aim
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your frame for learning that's important
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that optimizes pattern recognition to an
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extent so you can notice the right
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information so you aren't learning the
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wrong thing step two is to outline a
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project listen to this carefully the
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best way to learn is to build a real
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world project and only search for
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information when you need it how much
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you learn is directly correlated with
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how much progress you make on the
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project when you watch endless tutorials
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you fill your mind with noise and Chaos
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most of that information goes to waste
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it leads to overwhelm anxiety and slows
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down how fast you learn when it comes
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time to build the project the only
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reason you're learning in the first
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place you feel as if you learned nothing
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and have to search for the information
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anyway so if you want to learn faster
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skip the tutorial phase outline the
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project first and now you don't
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necessarily need to skip the tutorial
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phase you just need to start the project
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and hit that struggling point and then
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when you go into the tutorial phase you
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you actually pick up the information now
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when I say outline a project or create a
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project this tends to confuse some
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people a project can be anything your
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health can be a project your body body
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can be a project your relationship can
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be a project your business can be a
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project an image in Photoshop can be a
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project a website for your portfolio can
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be a project a project is simply a
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structured way of achieving a goal or
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making progress toward a goal it's a way
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to further narrow your frame of
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reference so your mind biases the right
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information as you learn and again this
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continues to optimize pattern
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recognition as you read books study
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tutorials or have conversations good
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dopamine will spurt into your brain to
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signal that information is important for
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the completion of the project your
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subconscious will munch on problems and
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send relevant ideas to your conscious
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mind this is what creatives call shower
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thoughts it's when the default mode
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network is active in your brain while at
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quote unquote rest think of when you're
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on a walk or even more prevalent for
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most people is when you're about to fall
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asleep late at night and you're working
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on a project and idea ideas keep you up
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and you can't stop typing them into your
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phone if you haven't experienced that
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yeah it sucks to not be able to sleep
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but it feels so good because that's when
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the ideas come the most when you're not
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focused on work when your brain isn't in
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that task positive Network Charles
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Darwin as an example worked on his
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projects in focused blocks then went on
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long walks on these walks his brain was
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at rest and potential solutions to
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problems pop into his head when I write
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newsletters as a small project within a
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bigger project of my business I outline
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the newsletter at the start of the week
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I don't just write my newsletters Allin
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one go this is a weekly process process
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the outline creates my frame of
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reference I outline it and then as I'm
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writing it day by day slowly and going
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on walks and listening to stuff and
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researching for the newsletter or a book
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or whatever it is then novel ideas come
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to my mind that I can use to write if I
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were to just sit down and try to spit
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out what's in my brain Allin one go it
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could be good but I'm not necessarily
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learning anything or doing anything
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unique so when you have a project
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outline if you do it in cortex you can
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just open up your phone mobile apps
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coming soon which is awesome and you can
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type at or plus to connect to that
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specific document that you're creating
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the outline in and you can just save
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ideas there you can save ideas without
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having AI respond to you then they're
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right there when you sit down to fill
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out the outline of your project and you
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can also just talk to Kai and be like
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okay how do I do this part how do I do
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this part so here's how you start a
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project choose something to build that
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moves the needle toward what you want in
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life from earlier create a note or
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document and brain dump everything that
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comes to mind save three to five sources
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of inspiration that you want to emulate
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so if I'm creating a YouTube video as a
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project I would save three to five
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YouTube videos I would want to create
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similar iterations of this part is so
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important even when you're creating
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Photoshop or art or something like that
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as a beginner or tweets or writing
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anything a book a a a course whatever it
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may be you start by pulling certain
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parts of those things into your own
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project so you're not necessarily
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starting from scratch you're just just
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not starting with a tutorial you're
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trying to imitate intelligent imitation
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you're trying to pull from multiple
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sources to create your own thing and
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then as you go and hit sticking points
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that's when you learn best now with this
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you want to study those sources and
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break down their structure or
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characteristics then outline the project
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into sections Milestones images
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inspiration and what you need to know in
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order to complete it and then of course
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have a place to capture ideas that come
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to mind preferably somewhere you don't
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lose the ideas or forget about them you
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can do this in Apple notes or todoist or
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notion or any of those things now after
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outlining a project step three is to
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start with what you know because
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learning comes from struggle not
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memorization if you know nothing at
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least try to take the first step
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download the software and start playing
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around try to create something anything
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just get your mind in a state where it's
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hungry to learn otherwise you probably
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won't digest the information you search
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for then follow this process you start
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then you don't know what to do you try
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and fail you search for the answer or
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ask AI you try to implement the answer
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you repeat until the project is complete
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and if you can't find the answer you ask
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an expert so a few years ago Google
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searching was considered a skill being
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able to type the right things into
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Google to get the answer that you need
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or being able to search Reddit or stack
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Overflow if you're a programmer or
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things like that now that AI has all of
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that information prompt engineering is
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becoming the new Google search in a
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sense we're going to talk about AI as a
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skill in the next video and how to learn
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this prompt engineering that I'm talking
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about because it's one of the new modern
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skills that you can pair with any other
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skill to Future proof yourself to an
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extent because I believe it was the
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founder of Nvidia who said machines
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aren't going to replace people people
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using machines are going to replace
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people so if you learn how to use AI
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Beyond just typing a sentence into it
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you're setting yourself up quite well so
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as an example if I'm building a project
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or just an image in Photoshop and I get
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stuck right I start I don't know what to
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do I'm kind of just like trying out
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different tools and then I can't create
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it and let's say I want to remove a
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background from an image I know nothing
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about Photoshop right then I can just
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type into Kai or AI in general and say
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how do I remove the background of an
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image in Photoshop and it will give me a
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few different options that I can try
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then I succeed and because I'm
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struggling and my brain wanted to learn
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that thing it kind of locks it in into
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place a lot better and then you continue
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on with the project and you keep going
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so I can continue to ask more questions
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like what are Selections in masks in
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Photoshop how do I make a selection on
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this type of image I was doing this the
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other day where I was like in Premiere
16:11 - 16:14
editing something and I didn't know how
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to do it so I pressed option C to open
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up like a floating AI Pane and I just
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asked really quick how do I get through
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this and then I got through it and I was
16:20 - 16:23
able to edit a lot faster without having
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to go through 10 different articles on
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Google to find the answer so after
16:25 - 16:31
starting step 3.5 is how to start when
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you don't feel like starting because
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that's a big problem for a lot of people
16:32 - 16:36
is they just don't want to start so they
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never do the zynic effect is a
16:36 - 16:40
psychological phenomenon where people
16:38 - 16:42
remember unfinished tasks more than
16:40 - 16:44
completed tasks meaning if we don't
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complete tasks for our projects it's
16:44 - 16:48
much easier to find the motivation to
16:46 - 16:50
get started but how did you get started
16:48 - 16:52
from scratch so there's a trick here
16:50 - 16:54
that I learned from Justin Sun who is
16:52 - 16:56
another YouTuber who talks about
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learning and he calls this the zynic
16:56 - 17:00
squared effect or the zaric effect
16:58 - 17:03
squared either one in other words you
17:00 - 17:06
want to kind of invoke the zynic effect
17:03 - 17:08
by starting easy tasks before getting
17:06 - 17:11
started on your project because if you
17:08 - 17:13
start those tasks then they'll be
17:11 - 17:15
unfinished and you'll want to continue
17:13 - 17:17
working on them and they lead naturally
17:15 - 17:19
into the task that you need to work on
17:17 - 17:21
so this could be something like setting
17:19 - 17:23
up your desk like literally coming and
17:21 - 17:25
cleaning your desk or I make coffee in
17:23 - 17:27
the morning and I come sit down or some
17:25 - 17:29
kind of ritual or routine that allows
17:27 - 17:31
you to just get into the thing when I
17:29 - 17:33
don't want to write my newsletter I just
17:31 - 17:35
go into the outline and I just promise
17:33 - 17:38
myself that I'm going to start looking
17:35 - 17:39
at it reading it uh typing up some ideas
17:38 - 17:41
that come to mind and then eventually I
17:39 - 17:43
hit something and I'm like okay I can
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keep writing this thing so you don't
17:43 - 17:48
necessarily have to start doing what you
17:46 - 17:50
were doing before you just have to kind
17:48 - 17:52
of go into it start playing around a bit
17:50 - 17:53
and then once you start doing something
17:52 - 17:55
or mess with something you want to
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continue doing it so for something like
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going to the gym right if you're trying
17:57 - 18:01
to learn Fitness maybe you just go and
18:00 - 18:02
start walking on the treadmill there
18:01 - 18:04
like you just say I'm going to go walk
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for 5 minutes and if I don't feel like
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it doing anything here I'm going to
18:05 - 18:09
leave and most of the time you won't
18:07 - 18:10
leave if you have Clarity on what you're
18:09 - 18:13
doing remember hierarchy of goals you
18:10 - 18:15
need to know what to do and if you don't
18:13 - 18:18
know what to do then you need to study
18:15 - 18:20
right bring AI to the gym and just be
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like hey what exercise should I do next
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in uh this chest workout routine okay so
18:23 - 18:27
we're going to go back into the prompts
18:25 - 18:29
again and we're going to find the study
18:27 - 18:32
regimen prompt and we're going to take
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this and we're going to open a new chat
18:32 - 18:35
you can rename these as well if you want
18:34 - 18:37
to keep them organized I'm just showing
18:35 - 18:39
you something you can name one strategic
18:37 - 18:41
adviser like I have here that you can go
18:39 - 18:42
back to and chat with when you need it
18:41 - 18:44
you can go back to your discipline coach
18:42 - 18:46
whenever you need to start the task and
18:44 - 18:47
now your study regimen you're going to
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paste this in here and you're going to
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place replace this part the topic with
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whatever you want to learn so I'm going
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to say storytelling then we're going to
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send this here and I'll make this full
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screen so you can actually see it once
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it's done generating but what we have
19:03 - 19:09
here close the prompt library is a
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60-day storytelling regimen according to
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the prompt so the prompt was to give me
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one bestselling book One technical book
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multiple YouTube videos three to five
19:15 - 19:19
interest that complement the main topic
19:17 - 19:22
that I can explore as supplementary
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education for fun because you don't
19:22 - 19:25
always just want to learn this like go
19:24 - 19:26
through this boring grind of learning
19:25 - 19:28
the information you want to learn
19:26 - 19:30
complimentary things that fill in the
19:28 - 19:32
gaps of what you're learning now what
19:30 - 19:35
you do here inside of this chat that you
19:32 - 19:37
can rename to study partner is you're
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going to go through here and this is how
19:37 - 19:40
you're going to learn and I've gone
19:39 - 19:43
through this multiple times I've tested
19:40 - 19:46
it it actually gives you good
19:43 - 19:48
information and good books to go into so
19:46 - 19:50
phase one is immersion and Foundations
19:48 - 19:53
weeks one and two so you're going to
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read the book story style structure
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substance Etc why it's a Cornerstone
19:55 - 19:59
text action steps read two to three
19:57 - 20:01
chapters a day take notes on key
19:59 - 20:03
Concepts and you can take notes either
20:01 - 20:05
in this chat or in a document and
20:03 - 20:07
connect it to it and ask it to quiz it
20:05 - 20:10
on you you can say if you take notes
20:07 - 20:14
inside of a document here you can say
20:10 - 20:16
quiz me on at whatever the document is
20:14 - 20:18
and it will take it into context and
20:16 - 20:19
then also in that first phase the
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YouTube video you're going to watch is
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here Phase 2 technical application 3 to4
20:23 - 20:27
phase 3 creative exploration where you
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can go through all of this phase 4
20:27 - 20:31
refinement and practice this so on and
20:29 - 20:33
so forth and it has action steps you can
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take to actually learn storytelling and
20:33 - 20:37
it says okay let me know when you're
20:35 - 20:39
ready to dive into the first phase or if
20:37 - 20:42
you'd like to adjust any part of this
20:39 - 20:44
let's just say let's dive into the first
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phase then it'll
20:44 - 20:49
go all right it just breaks down the
20:47 - 20:51
first phase that's awesome now I
20:49 - 20:53
actually want to find this YouTube video
20:51 - 20:56
here so I can show you how you could get
20:53 - 20:59
personalized study help on that thing
20:56 - 21:01
because with Kai you can talk to your
20:59 - 21:02
highlights or other things inside of
21:01 - 21:05
here and you can add YouTube videos with
21:02 - 21:07
a link to pull the transcript in from
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them okay we're actually I'm going to
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give this as an example because I've
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actually listened to Brandon sanderson's
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lectures on writing Science Fiction and
21:13 - 21:17
Fantasy because I want to personally
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write a fable so I'm going to turn Kai
21:17 - 21:22
off just so I can save this in here but
21:20 - 21:24
what this does is it adds this to my
21:22 - 21:26
library so now I can access the
21:24 - 21:30
transcript and it's right here so I can
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turn on Kai and I can say uh give me the
21:30 - 21:37
key points of this video and I can even
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break it down and go deeper into the
21:37 - 21:41
actual uh timestamps of that specific
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thing so if I listen to this video on a
21:41 - 21:46
walk and I want to be quizzed on a
21:44 - 21:51
specific timestamp related to it I'll
21:46 - 21:51
just say can you quiz me on these key
21:52 - 21:56
points and then I can go through here
21:54 - 21:58
and ask questions I can answer the
21:56 - 22:01
questions and then just get quizzed as
21:58 - 22:02
my study partner so now we have three
22:01 - 22:04
things inside of here we have the
22:02 - 22:06
Strategic advisor we have the discipline
22:04 - 22:08
coach and we have the study regimen so
22:06 - 22:09
those three things combined while
22:08 - 22:12
creating your project that you can
22:09 - 22:14
oscillate between really enhance your
22:12 - 22:16
learning now how do you actually
22:14 - 22:19
structure how you learn because we only
22:16 - 22:21
have so much time in a day the best way
22:19 - 22:25
in my opinion to do this is in three
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different focused blocks the first is 30
22:25 - 22:28
to 90 minutes of building so you build
22:27 - 22:30
your project and search for information
22:28 - 22:32
information when you need it the second
22:30 - 22:34
is 30 to 60 minutes of learning so you
22:32 - 22:36
follow your study regimen and take notes
22:34 - 22:38
on what you learn and you can review
22:36 - 22:39
these notes by asking your notes to be
22:38 - 22:42
summarized in Kai that's actually one
22:39 - 22:45
thing I forgot to show you here is that
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you can turn off Kai and you can capture
22:45 - 22:50
your notes to this specific thing you
22:48 - 22:53
can take all of your notes on a specific
22:50 - 22:56
video or on the topic in here and then
22:53 - 22:58
you can ask Kai to summarize what's in
22:56 - 23:00
the chat because it takes the entire
22:58 - 23:03
your chat into context now the last
23:00 - 23:04
block is 30 minutes of walking this way
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you can listen to YouTube videos
23:04 - 23:09
audiobooks or lectures so go on a walk
23:07 - 23:11
and jot down ideas on your phone as they
23:09 - 23:13
come to mind those are your Keystone
23:11 - 23:15
habits that's when all of the learning
23:13 - 23:17
happens and the thing here is that
23:15 - 23:19
nobody is going to give you the time to
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learn and build what you want to learn
23:19 - 23:23
and build you have to take the time put
23:21 - 23:25
them on your calender wake up an hour
23:23 - 23:27
earlier or stay up an hour later turn it
23:25 - 23:29
into a ritual grab your coffee pull up
23:27 - 23:31
your outline put on some focus music and
23:29 - 23:32
start Paving the way toward the future
23:31 - 23:35
you want to create so that's how you
23:32 - 23:38
learn in a nutshell but we can take it
23:35 - 23:40
even further with a few other Concepts
23:38 - 23:42
and to do this we write to
23:40 - 23:44
systematically reflect on what we learn
23:42 - 23:46
so here's the puzzle you know what you
23:44 - 23:47
want for your future you have a project
23:46 - 23:49
or a series of projects that will take
23:47 - 23:51
you there and you are learning and
23:49 - 23:54
building daily but there's one missing
23:51 - 23:55
piece and it turns out it's also a way
23:54 - 23:57
to further enhance how much you learn
23:55 - 23:59
the missing piece is people who care
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about what You're Building because I'm
23:59 - 24:03
assuming that you want to do this
24:01 - 24:04
full-time you're learning and building
24:03 - 24:06
because you want that to turn into some
24:04 - 24:09
kind of sustainable life you want to
24:06 - 24:11
replace your job or career with a
24:09 - 24:13
calling an obsession and to do that you
24:11 - 24:15
need money at least enough to sustain
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your ideal life you don't need millions
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of dollars you just need enough to make
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money you need people to care about what
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you're building to make people care
24:22 - 24:26
about what you're building you need to
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show what you're doing in public and in
24:26 - 24:31
most cases the best way to do that is
24:28 - 24:33
writing teaching what you know and what
24:31 - 24:36
you're learning as you build if you want
24:33 - 24:39
a master class in this go follow a Peter
24:36 - 24:41
levels or levels.io on Twitter where
24:39 - 24:42
he's just building out a game with AI
24:41 - 24:44
right now and he's just doing it in
24:42 - 24:46
public and he's adding features that his
24:44 - 24:48
followers wanted and by doing this
24:46 - 24:50
you're attracting people to what you
24:48 - 24:53
build so that they one care about it and
24:50 - 24:56
two you have an audience now that wants
24:53 - 24:57
to support you now why writing first
24:56 - 25:00
thing is that it's the foundation of
24:57 - 25:02
media and two it's accessible and anyone
25:00 - 25:04
can start writing right now no video
25:02 - 25:07
editing skills required and three it
25:04 - 25:09
holds much more power than just building
25:07 - 25:11
an audience of supporters writing is how
25:09 - 25:14
you systematically reflect on what you
25:11 - 25:16
learn when you teach what you learn you
25:14 - 25:18
expose more knowledge gaps you struggle
25:16 - 25:20
more to understand you have more
25:18 - 25:22
specific knowledge to research so this
25:20 - 25:24
is where the Fineman technique and
25:22 - 25:26
protoe effect come into play the Fineman
25:24 - 25:28
technique is a learning method
25:26 - 25:30
popularized by physicist Richard Fineman
25:28 - 25:32
in short it's about deeply understanding
25:30 - 25:34
a concept by explaining it in simple
25:32 - 25:36
terms as if you were teaching it to
25:34 - 25:38
someone with no prior knowledge so to do
25:36 - 25:40
this you choose a concept so you select
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the topic you want to understand you
25:40 - 25:44
teach it you explain the concept in
25:42 - 25:46
simple language as if you were teaching
25:44 - 25:48
it to a child and then you identify gaps
25:46 - 25:50
so when you struggle to explain
25:48 - 25:52
something clearly identify the areas
25:50 - 25:54
where your understanding is weak last
25:52 - 25:56
you review and simplify so go back to
25:54 - 25:58
the source material or you're learning
25:56 - 26:00
you relearn the concepts and then try
25:58 - 26:02
explaining them again in even simpler
26:00 - 26:04
terms now this overlaps with What's
26:02 - 26:06
called the Protege effect which in short
26:04 - 26:08
is the teacher learns more than the
26:06 - 26:10
student teaching what you know or what
26:08 - 26:13
you learn encourages you to make sense
26:10 - 26:15
of it in your own way to finally string
26:13 - 26:18
it together in your own mind so that you
26:15 - 26:20
can that's learning and by doing this it
26:18 - 26:22
exposes even more gaps in your knowledge
26:20 - 26:24
because if I'm talking to a camera and
26:22 - 26:26
then I watch back over it or I Stumble
26:24 - 26:28
over my words right now I have something
26:26 - 26:31
to improve I have something to learn
26:28 - 26:33
more what this does is it increases the
26:31 - 26:36
effect of pattern recognition life
26:33 - 26:38
becomes more enjoyable and serendipitous
26:36 - 26:40
because you notice more things in life
26:38 - 26:41
that can help you achieve the projects
26:40 - 26:45
or goals that you set your mind to you
26:41 - 26:47
learn more just from living so how do we
26:45 - 26:50
merge both of these with what you're
26:47 - 26:52
already learning you do it by writing on
26:50 - 26:54
the internet now we talk about this in
26:52 - 26:56
quite a few videos quite a lot of them
26:54 - 26:57
but I'm not talking about becoming a
26:56 - 26:59
content creator I'm talking about
26:57 - 27:01
treating social social media as your
26:59 - 27:03
public Journal rather than a place to
27:01 - 27:05
just distract yourself in that way you
27:03 - 27:07
at least have a chance at attracting
27:05 - 27:09
potential supporters customers employers
27:07 - 27:11
investors team members and anything else
27:09 - 27:13
you would need to reach the life you
27:11 - 27:16
want this is why it's so powerful
27:13 - 27:18
learning building writing to
27:16 - 27:22
systematically reflect on your on what
27:18 - 27:23
you learn in public so people value what
27:22 - 27:26
you're learning and building and it just
27:23 - 27:29
doubles down on the effect of learning
27:26 - 27:30
it's less about building following and
27:29 - 27:32
more about putting your work in front of
27:30 - 27:34
other people like when you're trying to
27:32 - 27:35
meet new people it's never going to
27:34 - 27:38
happen if you don't get out of your
27:35 - 27:40
house and you'll grow bitter and angry
27:38 - 27:42
wondering why you're all alone it's
27:40 - 27:44
obvious why because you haven't given
27:42 - 27:47
people a chance to know or care about
27:44 - 27:49
you your chances of success are zero so
27:47 - 27:51
here's what I recommend for starting
27:49 - 27:53
write a newsletter once a week to
27:51 - 27:55
summarize what you've learned and
27:53 - 27:56
remember teach it to them teach what
27:55 - 27:58
you're learning this is how so many
27:56 - 28:00
people start newsletters or social media
27:58 - 28:02
is they just use it as a place to share
28:00 - 28:04
what they're learning that week some
28:02 - 28:07
people's bios on social media is are
28:04 - 28:09
literally just sharing what I learn on
28:07 - 28:11
the way to whatever the goal is sahil
28:09 - 28:13
Bloom millions of followers on Twitter
28:11 - 28:15
his bio for the longest time was like
28:13 - 28:17
the exploring my curiosity and sharing
28:15 - 28:19
what I learn along the way your bio
28:17 - 28:21
doesn't matter here what matters is the
28:19 - 28:23
content is it interesting are you
28:21 - 28:25
teaching it literally start the
28:23 - 28:26
newsletter or post go search on YouTube
28:25 - 28:28
pay attention to these things as they
28:26 - 28:30
pop up on your timeline so you can
28:28 - 28:32
replicate them is like I learned about
28:30 - 28:35
this insane concept this week it's
28:32 - 28:37
called the zynic effect and it's the
28:35 - 28:38
best way to overcome procrastination
28:37 - 28:41
here's what you do share what you
28:38 - 28:42
learned in this video share anything
28:41 - 28:44
that you learn you give credit where
28:42 - 28:46
credits due when it's needed but most of
28:44 - 28:47
the time if you're just teaching a
28:46 - 28:48
concept or something like that and
28:47 - 28:50
weaving it in with your personal
28:48 - 28:52
experience that that just helps your
28:50 - 28:54
learning so much more the third thing is
28:52 - 28:56
to just write posts on X threads or
28:54 - 28:57
LinkedIn because these are just writing
28:56 - 28:59
platforms you can do any platform but
28:57 - 29:01
the these are writing platforms talk
28:59 - 29:03
about your opinions beliefs personal
29:01 - 29:06
experiences and what you are learning
29:03 - 29:07
and building then tack on social media
29:06 - 29:10
as a skill you need to learn the same
29:07 - 29:12
way as taught in this video then add one
29:10 - 29:13
more 30 to 60 Minute time block for
29:12 - 29:15
writing every morning now if these time
29:13 - 29:17
blocks are starting to add up you can
29:15 - 29:20
split them across different days so you
29:17 - 29:23
can learn on Monday build on Tuesday
29:20 - 29:25
write on Wednesday and then walk on each
29:23 - 29:27
of those days to soak in more
29:25 - 29:30
information and then during all of this
29:27 - 29:32
ask or AI in general or chat gbt or
29:30 - 29:35
Claude to help you as you write so an
29:32 - 29:37
example is you are an expert at crafting
29:35 - 29:40
engaging social post what's the best way
29:37 - 29:42
to start a post on this topic that I'm
29:40 - 29:44
learning and continue from there so
29:42 - 29:46
personally writing changed my life I was
29:44 - 29:49
once a freelance web designer who failed
29:46 - 29:51
at every business prior to that and I
29:49 - 29:53
started on social media because I was
29:51 - 29:56
tired of doing cold Outreach to land
29:53 - 29:58
freelance clients and as I kept going I
29:56 - 30:00
I realized the power of writing in in
29:58 - 30:01
terms of getting in front of more people
30:00 - 30:03
not only on social media but what about
30:01 - 30:06
my landing pages right if I'm not doing
30:03 - 30:08
cold emails and sending those things
30:06 - 30:09
people are how are people getting to me
30:08 - 30:11
right they're going to my profile
30:09 - 30:13
they're reading some of my content
30:11 - 30:14
they're going to my website my landing
30:13 - 30:17
page whatever it may be and that way I
30:14 - 30:18
didn't have to get rejected as much for
30:17 - 30:20
reaching out to people cold I just
30:18 - 30:22
shared what I knew and what I was
30:20 - 30:23
learning in web design and what I was
30:22 - 30:25
building you go and follow programmers
30:23 - 30:28
or designers and they're just sharing
30:25 - 30:30
their work and if that work is good they
30:28 - 30:32
gain a following if it's not good then
30:30 - 30:34
you have direct feedback if you aren't
30:32 - 30:36
gaining a following then you can do
30:34 - 30:38
better but for me with social media it
30:36 - 30:40
wasn't just about the freelance work it
30:38 - 30:42
was about how much I was learning every
30:40 - 30:44
time I hit post it felt like I had
30:42 - 30:46
learned something new like for the
30:44 - 30:48
longest time when I was a kid I would
30:46 - 30:49
just look up to people who were very
30:48 - 30:51
articulate and knowledgeable about
30:49 - 30:53
certain things and then whenever I would
30:51 - 30:55
read something like a book and I thought
30:53 - 30:56
it was really good but then I tried to
30:55 - 30:58
explain it in my own words and I was
30:56 - 31:00
like I I I can't do do this it's just
30:58 - 31:02
not coming to mind I didn't actually
31:00 - 31:05
learn the thing but as I started writing
31:02 - 31:06
and like writing is Legos with ideas so
31:05 - 31:09
when I'm piecing these things together
31:06 - 31:11
and I'm able to kind of just play with
31:09 - 31:13
the thoughts on screen then it makes it
31:11 - 31:14
so much easier to learn because it's not
31:13 - 31:17
just like I'm trying to do it on the
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spot as I'm speaking so the more that I
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wrote the more good things happened
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internally and externally so I hope that
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you can experience that as well that is
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it for this video I hope you learned how
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to learn I hope hope you go on to
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continue learning if you want something
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to learn because you still don't know
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what to learn check out 2hour writer or
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the oneperson business Launchpad or any
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of that stuff Link in the description or
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on my site the danco.com try out cortex
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it's free to start all base features are
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free Kai is some it's limited in usage
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for free you can still use it but
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unlimited usage for paid tiers right now
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until we continue to write go check out
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the uh cortex AI tutorial on the cortex
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channel so you can see a lot more of its
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capabilities and what we plan to do with
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it in the future like subscribe thank
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you again for watching see you in the
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next video bye