) month to master challange

Creator: Michael Simmons Price: $339 and 3 days free Link: Welcome! | Michael Simmons’ Course (learningritual.com) Type: #litnote #todevelop Topics: [[ Learning ]]


  • Social Learning
  • The learning pyramid
    • Passive: Reading without note-taking
    • Active: Highlight and copying notes
    • Constructive: Mind mapping, taking notes in own words, answers and questions
    • Interactive: debating, dialoguing and explaining it to someone else
  • Explanation effect
    • More accountability
    • Connecting with others
    • Deeper learning
    • Building an asset
    • Proof of skill
  • You need a learning network and learning challenge
  • Wealth of information creates poverty of attention
  • Learn skills others find difficult to master
  • Micro-skills
    • Break skills into their subskills
    • Identify the $1000/Hour skills with little competition
  • Suggestion for getting started
    • Imposter syndrome
    • Under your name or brand
    • Format
    • Medium
    • Distribution
  • Build your curriculum:
    • Make a public commitment
    • Skill Selection
    • and Heuristics for selection
    • Top Mental Models
    • Fields
    • Top Books on Fields
    • Top Trends
    • Tracking trends
    • How to search
      • 80/20 RULE
      • Keywords
      • Sites used for search
  • Learning how to learn
    • Full spectrum reading
    • learn using as many processing systems as you can
  • Daily Learning Schedule
    • If someone were watching you learn over your shoulder, what would be they be most surprised by?
    • Curation
  • Explore 20+ books on a topic
    • Get a landscape view
    • Use fractal reading
      • Skipping to find the most important parts or pages.
      • No you won’t miss anything
      • It will double your speed.
      • Metadata is much valuable than the whole book.
      • Consume your book before you read it Get key ideas
      • Ask questions; Should you read this book? What are the important points/chapters
  • Make time
    • Make time for learning sacred. Let no one touch your time
  • Turn your learning into knowledge assets
    • People take detailed notes but don’t share publicly what they learn.
    • Learn to overcome imposter syndrome
    • No more writers block
      • Remember what you learn with spaced repititon using your desktop and mobile wallpaper
    • Highlight text and share what you have learned.
  • Learn virality hacks for social medias
    • Learn how to get attention online and how social media algorithms work.
    • Switch aspect ratio
    • Highlight text
    • Add images
    • Change colors
    • Make slides
    • Make animations
  • The challanges of online thought leaderships
    • It’s hard and is going to be harder: A wealth of attention creates a poverty of attention.
    • So make blockbuster
      • You have less competition
      • Winner takes the most
      • Prefer quality over quantity
      • Create evergreen content
    • Be the first and or best
      • What you say
      • Who you say it to
      • How you say it
      • Where you say it
      • Ship
    • Before you begin to learn
      • Clean your desk
      • Use bathroo
      • Go somewhere quiet
      • Eat food if hungry
      • Tell others that you are busy
      • Close your email and social media
      • Put phoneo n airplane mode
    • Clarify
      • What do you want to create at the end of the hour?
    • Thought Leader opportunities
      • Curation— Summarization— Connection
        • Find highest quality resources and highest quality excerpts
        • Easy, scalable, takes less time to produce it and people will pay for it.
        • Newsletters, Books, Books list.
        • Explain the curation process
          • I spend 30 hours every week searching for the top articles, videos, and this is my #h1
          • Explain why you picked the item
            • This is unique and interesting, changed the way I think, Helped me get results faster
          • Don’t do
            • Post a link
            • Give no context
            • expect people to value it
      • As you research, you collect information, how do you want to package what you collect at the end of the month
      • **Collect diverse rare and valuable data
      • Use mental models to get unique insights

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