How To Learn Faster
If you want to learn faster you have to experiment with different 'modes' of reading and learning.

One of my favorites is the 'gulping' approach, where you bounce around between 4 or 5 books all in one sitting.
 
Tai Lopez Mar 16, 2015
This takes advantage of "negative quarter-power scaling," which Steven Johnson talks about in his book "Where Good Ideas Come From." 

This means reading twice the books doesn't just give you twice the knowledge - it's exponential - it gives you 3 or 4 times the mental growth...
 
 

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553078
Hey Tai, I am going with Bounce-Matthew Syed, New York Times best seller Inside of a Dog-Alexandra Horowitz and Adventure of Huckleberry Fin. Do you every feel you missing the good part when you are speed reading or skimming? Any tips this? Jeff - Canada
553078   9 years ago
547398
I'm going through the 67 steps program and I am learning a lot and I am very grateful for everything you offer. Thanks Tai! I also wanted to mention that I would like to see a video on 'The Right Steps to sharing a Great Idea'. If you are interested in sharing some info on this, I believe it would be greatly appreciated by many. Just a suggestion...thanks again! Have a wonderful day. ;-)
547398   9 years ago
546380
I will be starting at the beginning of your list and working in order although Buss may take a while
546380   9 years ago
553274
Did you get a chance to read '3 simple steps'?
553274   9 years ago
548827
An ad of yours came up on a youtube video I watched and I joined your site just to post this. This is the most sophistical nonsense I have ever heard and you are nothing more than a conman Tai. I don't know what these mythical stigmas against learning too fast are that you talk about. Why would comprehending and gaining knowledge too fast ever be a bad thing? You make all sorts of claims while providing no evidence or support other than your own unverifiable experience. Your personal "experiment" seemingly illustrates for the absolute validity of this "gulping" method in increasing one's knowledge and comprehension skills, but does this have any sort of backing by psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience? I highly doubt it. Also, please tell me how someone can skim three books in fifteen minutes and gain any semblance of comprehension of their entirety. I would really love to see you go on Jeopardy seeing how you have apparently read hundreds, if not thousands, of books according to your method and claim to have absorbed their information. Your analogy between principles of physics and epistemology is even more baseless, as if physical laws determine the acquisition of knowledge. I challenge you to use your method to read through any serious, academic philosophical work and I guarantee it will fail. Also, the quote you attribute to the "ancient philosophers" comes from Hippocrates who was not a philosopher. Had you read any ancient philosophy, or philosophy in general, you would recognize that you are a sophist and nothing more, spinning words to appease your audience while really teaching them nothing. In fact, practically every philosopher would be opposed to your views on knowledge and life. You see knowledge only as a tool for wealth and power, whereas the true lover of knowledge values it for its own sake. You may be rich and you may fool many into buying your products but I see through your smoke and mirrors
548827   9 years ago
418433
can you be my mentor
418433   9 years ago
541726
I like this. Don't know how it will work out, but we'll see. I used to read more than one book at a time but usually ended up more focused on one of them and pushing the others to the side for an extended period and I don't think that was too effective. I like the idea of jumping around a little more to get more involved. I'm going to go with one of the books on the book list, Will Durant's 'The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time' and group it with 'You Are Not So Smart. . .' by David McRaney and 'Walden' by Henry David Thoreau. I think that should provide for an interesting mixture.
541726   9 years ago
546002
i want to be a successful people.
546002   9 years ago
545926
I have been doing this for a long time and felt kind of bad about it because sometimes I didn't finish them... this is so validating...
545926   9 years ago

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