Summary:

Very few people talk about HOW to learn things. This is a “slow release” method of learning that yields excellent results, but requires utmost honesty towards yourself (confirmation bias begone!), a decent memory and a genuine dedication and desire to learn. It is also of great help to people who want to understand things in life rather than memorize them.

Body:

Long intro:

(You can skip this, but it gives the material make more sense and context) A few words about myself, and how I got to this method. I used to be the textbook nice guy beta fish: falling in-love, crying when missing women, all that jazz. In my early 20s, after an ex-gf dumped me to marry a bb guy, I hit rock bottom emotionally and decided there’s no way . Somehow I found the old alt.seduction.fast community. That was back when RSD Tyler was turning his AFC ways, and during the timeline of The Game. I was fascinated! Was reading everything , memorized things, spent pretty much all my free awake time studying discussions, field reports, methods. Hell I laugh even now on how I remember some things even down to the details like page layouts and stuff. Good times. But I digress.

There were so many strange currents in the seduction community back then. From the wizardry of NLP, to the DeAngelo C&f, or even a guy running ridiculous flowcharts on Japanese chicks. All of them had something that worked, pushed a metric shit-ton of information, but it was actually hard to make proper sense of anything as a newbie. Until … one fateful day came in which I became extremely busy, and didn’t have time to revel in all the newsgroup data.

Basically I was forced to take a break by real life issues while having the whole compendium of seduction active in my head. Then, things started popping up HARD into focus from all that information, while I was having interactions with people around me, and even while remembering things, or dreaming. What ended up happening is the equivalent of a slow release medicine. All the useful information got filtered and internalized through current and ESPECIALLY past experiences very fast, instead of having to move through a large trial and error phase, changing me as a person forever.

Since then I’ve applied this method of learning in several other fields of interest - some more technical, some artistic, and it worked exactly the same: a near-intuitive level of mastery (or at least great experience) in the field of choice.

Before you begin:

Everyone is different, and there are a few schools of thought regarding learning. Some people require structured material, some are more free-form, some people just need to practice tirelessly until they get to a certain point of mastery. But everyone wants to learn something and become good at it.

New people look at the sidebar and say “gee, that’s a lot of stuff. Will it bring me hot chicks fast if I read it fast enough?” “Will I become the King of Dreams?” the short answer is , of course NO if you’re in any hurry. But there’s good news! All the information is there and it will help you if you’re dedicated enough.

This method forces your brain to switch between different modes of operation which will help you retain more knowledge and achieve true understanding of your field of study. I’ll use TRP as an outline for a “research field” since everybody is familiar with its aims.

Phase 1: Study with chaos

Focus on the study: read everything you can, read field reports, look at videos, just absorb every bit of information that you can. You will forget all of it anyways – OR SO YOU WILL THINK. Try to provoke some voluntary chaos in your learning phase. To do this, you pick something, let’s say reading WISNIFG. Read as many chapters as you can, but at the end of a chapter just stop and go do something else, or read something totally different, like field reports. Forget about the book for a while. Then go back to it and continue reading.

This accomplishes a few things:

  • it forces your brain to switch perspectives and not get bored

  • it allows the information to sink in WHILE BEING IN THE NEW PERSPECTIVE: basically you will start noticing the patterns that you’ve read about in the material WHILE reading the field reports, in your daily interactions with people and in everything around you.

  • When you go back to the material you will have already internalized the material to some extent, bosting the retention rate of the following chapters.

  • Last but not least, when you switch perspectives on ANYTHING you’ll start noticing new things involuntary. Try for example to flip a picture from time to time and you’ll start noticing more details in it.

This organized chaos method really helps you UNDERSTAND things that you’re learning, not just memorize them. True understanding of any subject means that you do not need the reference material anymore, instead you get to form your own material according to your immediate needs. This makes you fast as hell and extremely efficient.

Phase 2: The break

A few paragraphs above I said you will forget everything. Well, you won’t, but your brain will not be able to recall every single thing you’ve red or listened to since 99.9% of us don’t have an eidetic memory. However you need to give your brain a resting period from data influx. It is already overloaded.

This phase should begin when you’ve went through all the relevant material in the field of your choice, when you feel you’ve gone through everything but can’t quite put your finger on some things. This is what information overload feels like.

Imagine if you wish the virtual reality sequences from the Lawnmower Man. All those hexes are the information, but you don’t know exactly where everything is. However you know everything is around you. During this phase, just shoot the shit in the field. This means (for TRP) go out, meet people, and experiment just for the sake of experimenting. Have extreme OI. You’re in your holiday from study, so enjoy it :)

Something very nice will happen during this phase: you will start remembering all the relevant information. The irrelevant information will be filtered out and you won’t notice it. You will see the patterns in people, in things. You will get direct exposure to the material while things are HAPPENING TO YOU. You will find yourself grinning pretty often while thinking “so that’s what this thing was REALLY useful at” or “this is what the guy wanted me to understand”. This is where complete honesty with yourself is key, since you’ll need to weed out true understanding from confirmation bias . This phase will last a LONG time, and after a while you can switch gears back to phase 1, and then back to 2. This way while revisiting the material with the new understanding you lock down further concepts and deepen your knowledge.

Phase 3: Enter the master

Once the material is truly internalized you will shape it around your being and your needs. You will notice that you get ideas that nobody told you about, you can even articulate your experience to others and teach other people. A key issue here is that you will be able to articulate the whole process of your field, something that natural gifted individuals will not be able to. As an example, natural alphas will need to go through this formal study process to be able to explain to others what their reasoning is in no uncertain terms.

To illustrate the target level you can get to… think of it like being a cook that understands his ingredients so well that he shuns recipes altogether, because they slow him down, and make him too predictable.

Now it’s true that we as humans can never know everything about a certain field, so there is no true 100% mastery of anything, but we can get damn close to this state.

In closing, I hope this will be useful to the community. I’m still very new here, however this process of learning works.

Conclusions:

  • Information overload is useful in gaining deep insight when learning stuff
  • Switching perspectives when actively studying or building something will help you get more out of what you do
  • Mastery IS true understanding of any subject
  • Educated understanding helps you spread the knowledge with greater efficiency

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