How to master anything quickly

Do you sometimes feel like you are a slow learner? Do you feel like after reading a book you still haven’t learned much from it, or it just went from one extreme to the other? Are you getting those self-help books but still not getting anything out of them? This was me years ago until I learned what I’m about to teach you about how to master basically anything quickly and easily.

The quickest way to answer how to master anything quickly is something called spaced repetition. Spaced repetition is listening to or doing something over a period of time until it sticks in your mind. A perfect example of when you might use spaced repetition would be when you get a branded self-help audio. Normally, you would listen to each track once, do the exercises, and then move on. Maybe once or twice review your notes or listen to a track a couple more times. But to get much more out of the audio program, I would listen to each track multiple times in a short amount of time. He would then move on to the next track and do the same thing.

Think of it like when you hear a new hit song on the radio. When you first hear it, you don’t know the words, but after a couple of weeks of always hearing THAT same song on the radio over and over again, you learn the words without even knowing it. That’s spaced repetition working on you! You don’t necessarily have to like it, but since you’ve heard it so many times, it sticks in your head almost like a habit.

You can use spaced repetition with anything like audio, books, flash cards, etc. But, in my opinion, audio is by far the most effective. With audio you don’t need alone time to do it. You can listen to an audio at any time and even if you are doing something, even something like SLEEP. With a book you have to spend time alone with it, you can’t read and vacuum at the same time but with audio you can. Using audio, you can listen in your car, at the gym anywhere you want.

So you ask yourself, how many times do I have to listen to something for it to take root? Well, generally speaking, listening to something 21 times in a span of 30 days will help. Eventually it will become a habit. Or if it’s split into multiple tracks, I’d listen to a certain track at least 7 times before moving on to the next.

If you do this in anything you’re trying to learn, I promise you’ll get a LOT more out of it. You will learn much faster than going through something once or twice and expecting to act immediately. I do this for everything I do now and it has helped me master anything quickly.