Creativity & Competence: An Experiment on we How to Learn

Be particularly careful with this video. This is not supposed to be educational. A lot of the ideas I deal with here are those I am trying to understand myself. This is me documenting the process and testing out theories.

00:30 What is the purpose of this series?
01:30 What is the way to manage the speed at which the world changes?
02:20 Why is emergence and order important? (Categorize and Chunk)
06:50 Traditional Education Curriculum
08:25 How traditional education works and why it fails.
09:00 How to deal with someone who does not understand a subject.
10:50 What happens at the end of your education?
12:00 What if we did it differently? Emergence.
13:10 The importance of resourcefulness and meaning. How the past can be changed and as a result also the present and the future.

Use learning to become more self-aware and productive. (at minute 6:50 the audio shoots up, my apologies for that)

In this video I show you part of my process when learning.I start by getting clear on what my result and intention is. Nowadays I am always looking for ways in which to use knowledge to make myself more efficient. Something is interesting about order, efficiency and gratitude. Either that or 8 years in Germany have gotten into my DNA.

This First video is supposed to be an overview. In later videos, we'll go into more details for each of the parts.

This video is for you If you are looking for techniques on how to learn, become more competent at anything you do.

00:18 The problems of "knowing" too much

00:45 What learning should be used for.

01:15 How to start learning anything (The Way of Thinking)

This video does not contain advice. I am not an expert, I enjoy this stuff, and I want to share it.

02:50 the intention and goal that we will have in these set of videos as well as the skill of order and the feeling of gratitude.

03:50 This is about 2 hours of real life learning at times A LOT.

04:00 Writing down our result

04:40 45 min. of reading and note-taking down to about 20 seconds

05:10 28min of recalling as much as I could about the topic

06:05 Done recalling and now I go over the text and my notes and I make corrections and add the ideas that I left which are also important.

07:00 Good night!

Why should you learn how to learn? Also, how to become competent? Those are some of the many things I touch on this video. Taking a small break from the previous video to make sure my intention here is clear. This is not advice, I am merely doing this to share my process with you.

For eight years I have been living in Berlin, and I have worked in many different places. Most of these jobs were mechanical and in a way quite dull. But through the fact that they were standardized, something interesting started to happen. I realized it was exciting and fun to be efficient. And that Is how I was able to get through those kinds of jobs.

The other thing that I mention are the BIG 5 Personality traits, and it is the first time that one of these tests helps me. It did not feel like a box at all.

The main topic of this video is the importance of memory and how it relates to paying attention, focus and listening. How do these skills improve your life and the meaning that you get out of it? I am finding out things that are interesting as I go.

The book I talk about is "Memory: How to Develop, Train and Use it by William Walker Atkinson."

There is a free app for iPhone called Audiobooks, that has these kinds of old books.

According to Atkinson, the purpose of memory is to recall events in a way that is productive and good for you. So it is also about reframing the things that happened.

We start with the topic of memory and how it relates to paying attention and listening. One of the people that have helped me in understanding the notion of "Paying Attention," was Jordan B. Peterson.

Also, what are the dangers of not paying attention? Why is it that you don't want to be naive or have naive people around you?

This idea links to the notion of "making the world a better place". Something that I don't like much. That's when the video turns to the idea of: "Do no harm" which is related to order and efficiency.

I can't speak for everyone, but I have noticed that a lack of action can be harmful. So that if we are aware that we are not doing things right and we still decide not to act on it and create; then the potential turns on itself. That is when anger, resentment and all these kinds of emotions begin to build up inside of you. From then on it is possible to become passive aggressive and violent in different ways, either by action or inaction. I also noticed that not paying attention is also related to this lack of alignment. But this video is already long enough to get into that.

You can find the Test here: https://www.understandmyself.com

This is about understanding your result, your wants, your needs, and fears.

00:42 Something embarrassing from work

02:05 Second Intro: Lessons from my dad

03:00 The secret to total motivation...

03:50 Video Starts (Here you might want to close your eyes and just listen)

06:25 What motivates us to pay attention and listen

07:30 The dangers of not actualizing your potential (I know this sounds "new age" but wtv)

08:40 If I could go back 10 years with what I know now, what would I focus on? (BIG5 Personality Test: https://understandmyself.com)

10:15 What happens when you are not useful and competent enough? According to your own standards of course.

11:00 What stops you from having the life you think you "should" be having

11:40 I say this FULL knowing that you also need to consciously put yourself in uncomfortable situations. I personally do it as much as I can tolerate it. But situations are different than long-term partnerships

Again, these are opinions from someone learning. Don't follow my advice. I am probably just doing this to entertain myself

12:00 This whole thing will turn into a "how to learn" course. I wonder what the point of such a course should be. Where should we start?

12:55 The answer

14:00 What I use learning for (Definition as an antidote for anxiety)

15:00 How it looks and feels when fear and need are correctly defined and placed around you

16:00 How looks when things are undefined

17:10 Order and Efficiency to improve memory

18:10 Able to create hierarchies around you

19:00 How to properly manage your attention

Just as there are people who film themselves playing video games they suck at. I film myself trying to learn things I do not understand. Who knows, maybe one day this will turn into a professional sport?

00:30 What happened in the previous videos

00:50 How learning how to ask the right the questions can help you

02:00 Questions allow you to access knowledge

02:35 Using questions to reframe situations

04:45 A new technique for note taking.

05:25 What the red ink represents

05:45 What the black ink represents

06:15 How to remember the things you are reading about

07:15 The meaning of the green Ink and the blue one

08:40 Systems, Interactions, Feedback loops and how we repeat
behaviors which do not serve us

11:00 Lack of alignment and the BIG5 Personality traits

11:25 Watch me completely wreck the word "Agreeableness"

12:13 The "voice" has a compliment

12:35 How our main focus and point of view feeds itself.

14:50 Make sure you keep the main thing the main...I didn't

15:30 The point of this things is not to memorize for the sake of
memorizing

15:48 How learning relates to self-awareness, self-respect, and anxiety.

16:45 To know is to love

18:00 Learning as a tool for self-respect

19:25 I guess global warming is not THAT interesting to me o.0

19:45 The bicycle and the school

21:00 You go to school, and all you learn about are pipes and screws.

22:00 To recapitulate a little

00:30 I show you some of the notes that I took on the chapters. It is important to create personalized notes for yourself.

01:30 Follow wherever your attention goes and see where it takes you

02:30 Reduction and Emergence

03:30 It is not about what you have, but how you organize it. How do you organize the resource you have?

04:50 What makes a great artist

05:10 Form follows function (Want to create a product?)

06:30 Derive pleasure from doing things that suck! Learn to get uncomfortable.

06:50 How knowing how to order and categorize things can be the key to creativity and deal with challenges in your life.

08:00 Systems and Feedback. How are you acting in the world?

08:50 Is your model of the world causing you to be angry or resentful?

09:50 What is science according to Alan Watts? How using binary can help you stay out of the "lukewarm" place

10:45 The review starts

11:15 What is life? We are defined, not just by what we do, but by the result of our actions.

12:45 What do you want to do with your life? And are your surroundings aligned with it?

13:50 It's either "on" or "off"

14:40 The relation between reductionism and emergence

15:35 What is creativity? Reorganize things

16:45 What a REALLY bad question looks like

17:05 When facts are useful

17:25 "...People remember how you made them feel."

18:20 Go to work and transform energy into matter

18:40 Your energy is the result of how you organize yourself

22:04 What is the relationship between meaning, choice, questions, actions, state of mind and work?

Open Office Hell; Gratefulness; Eat sh!t to survive Berlin; and turning a weakness into a strength.

00:30 Open Office Concepts. Why?
01:20 Thank you for an office job?
02:10 What men do?
03:00 When things fall apart
03:20 Working your way up, again
04:00 What happens if you show respect to everything you do
05:00 How to survive working in Germany (8 years of working in Berlin)
06:00 Some work stories and funny coincidences
09:30 Working at a corporation
10:05 Here comes the rant
10:50 How to concentrate in these place
11:20 How my work looks
11:40 Eat sh!t to succeed? I hope
13:15 How all this relates to efficiency at work and learning how to learn
15:40 The ROI of turning a weakness into a strength