Efficient Learning — How many inputs of the past week can you remember?

Let’s start by simply asking yourself a question — how many news you can recall in the past week that you have read? To a normal person in today’s information explosion world, it’s 3% only. Let say you read 20 news per day, then you read 140 news per week. Most of the normal people today, can only recall 4–5 news only that they have read.

“Although we are getting information 100x more than those people in decades before, the efficiency of having the information stored in our head solely a few. What’s wrong in our learning process?”

Reading, Listening and Learning as much as we can, has been a popular topic in last few years. Many books asserted the methods to swallow as much information as we can. However, focusing on the quality rather than quantity of information is far more important.

For example, there are two people. A — reading just a BEST SELLING book that suit A’s ambition and goals per month vs. B — reading 5 middle tier books / month. A or B are learning efficiently? The answer is A. We do need to choose a quality source of content to absorb and focus on. Quality does matters. Similarly, now you know that you only can remember 4–5 pieces of news out of 140 news you read, time to focus on what matters to you, and strengthen you memories, instead of watching those not important content!

We always know that reading, listening, and watching are the ways we learn and input information to our mind.

There are two ways of input: 1) unintentionally 2) attentively, reading deeply and carefully, intentionally. The second way can be called growth learning, is the key for us to learn the knowledge. The knowledge we “learnt” via #1 aka satisfying your wants, the input knowledge are mostly being forgot.

Therefore, starting from today, try to learn in an attentive way, increase your awareness on your focus. Try to train yourself to be addicted to a focus mode instead of reading things randomly. In addition, learning through by reading is only getting 10% of result; we should keep ourself in practice and even applying the knowledge learnt, consequently we can have higher percentage of knowledge retention in our mind. Get the knowledge to your own!

Let’s start our focus journey today. Don’t waste our precious time on inputting things we cannot remember, instead, we should learn in a high awareness intention with goals. We should focus on quality but not quantity.