The Science of Rapid Skill Acquisition: Advanced Methods to Learn, Remember, and Master New Skills and Information [Second Edition] (Learning how to Learn Book 2)

Subskills follow the precept of the famous, universal Pareto principle, also known as “the 80/20 law.”

Deconstruction is taking individual elements, observing what they are and what they do, and understanding how their smaller function fits into the bigger, overall process. Doing so makes self-training and practice far less formidable, as you can concentrate on developing the subskills one by one.

Not every skill, hobby, or piece of information is created equally, especially in terms of what will create a shift in your life.

There are four important stages of learning to familiarize yourself with. When you know where you are, you can plan much better the next steps you need to take. The four stages are unconscious incompetence (you don’t know what you don’t know), conscious incompetence (you know what you’re doing wrong), conscious competence (you know how to succeed,

These 10 questions, answered with utmost honesty, go a long, long way toward giving you the right frame of mind to learn from your actions—even if you honestly answer no to a couple of them.

Remember. Retrieving, recognizing, and recalling relevant knowledge from long‐term memory. Understand. Constructing meaning from oral, written, and graphic messages through interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing, and explaining. Apply. Carrying out or using a procedure for executing, or implementing. Analyze. Bre

In elaborative interrogation, the learner (you) creates questions as if working through a task. They inquire how and why certain objects work. Nothing is safe from this inquiry. They go through their study materials to determine the answers and try to find connections between all the ideas they’re learning about. The answers the student gives form

Deconstruct, make a list, and then seek to understand which subskills are more capable of creating a domino effect.

Feynman Technique, which is named for the famous physicist, Richard Feynman. There are four steps to this: choose a topic or skill, summarize or demonstrate it as succinctly as possible, seek out your blind spots through how easy or difficult the previous step was, and then use an analogy.