What is Reddit's opinion of The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast!?

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START 8:53 AM, 4/9/16.

I will fork my reply here, because I simply have too many ideas for one chain thread. One fork, continues off where I left off, specifically specifying strictly table of contents. THIS FORK (Fork 2) is thoughts I have specifically of the Chapters 10+ (not the old chapter 10 where I speculate A-Z situations), but more so about me particularly. Possibly some draft notes. It is extraordinarily complicated to organize notes in reddit after you hit the 1,000,000 character mark, so any anchor PMT tags for related topics are best, even though I am randomly typing shit out as I see fit. Specifically, the ANCHOR PMT TAG HERE, is my outline post, and, my name for ANCHOR PMT TAG, is [GRAND PLAN SLAM], just an arbitrary name i gave it based on baseball diamonds

<Going back to my 4 shower notes this morning>

• Someone close to me I know told me recently the eye is simply receiving information firing off neurons and some is done in spinal cords, the eye is simply a receiver of information to the brain. That does make sense, it confirms my suspicions - that the 5 senses, are simply tools for PMT formation (formation of thoughts that you remmeber, PMT is basically nodes or memories that you recall, long or short term, usually has a trigger to it, like a specific object that reminds you of nostalgia for instance). That the 5 senses, if you have none of them (you are almost a vegetable state at this point, or the opposite of it), you receive no information, therefore cannot form new PMT, just look at older PMTs This confirms my theories just a little more, i need to cite some actual scientific sources though for real validation

• Anyways, how to rapidly acquire skills extremely quickly http://www.amazon.com/First-20-Hours-Learn-Anything-ebook/dp/B00AFPVPDG/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1460207091&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=josh+kaufman . I have not read book. I shall simply look at reviews. Get a cliffnotes of book. Looking at the positive reviews most touted (negative ones are a little critical, no PMT overlaps) http://i.imgur.com/eN4k9MB.png . This practically sums up the book. http://i.imgur.com/Ab96w5U.png . Knowing just these 3 things, I can figure out exactly what the book is going to talk about, by understanding plot storyline, this guys thinking is probably not that far off from mine in some regards, according to what I've read on his bio, and, his writing style on a World of warcraft post in 2008, and understanding plot and storytelling as a whole for nonfiction (as I've written many reports in the past)

• The book is summarized, most likely as follows: 6 skills he knows nothing about. He wants to learn everything, so a reviewer states, like me. He explores how he goes into learning all these things. Continous feedback loop, something I learned in university when it came to learning, my field was almost no feedback purely scientific which bogged me down. He probably goes into youtube videos, find the best youtube person on this, immediately make a beginners level purchase, go to the site at hand, Absorb small bits of information, just scratch the surface as rapidly as possible and then stop. AGILE. think back what you did. Go back to scratching the surface in 100 different ways again, with what you learned.

• As I've stated, the power of 3rd hand correlations is unbelievable. ITs how i intimidated billionaire CEOs with my knowledge OF THEIR COMPANY (Despite never working there or interviewing anyone there) at my first time at their convention, they didn't know who the fuck I was, or how I acquired all the knowledge about their company, as a no-namer. I have many resources, many birds who speak in my ear, indirectly.

• 3rd hand correlations has also let me figure out which things exist in the market, such as US customs data, specific tools I need to buy - polaroid printers, etc. That and also looking at sites like McMAsterCarr and its apps help out, you'd have to know the leader of every industry to get ideas of that said industry. (I mean they spent MILLIONS of dollars on SEO through google only, not to mention its intense infrastructure, jesus fuck. There's a reason Dassault system partnered with McMasterCarr for open APIs)

• Its also why I never read the 7 habits of highly effective people, all those self-help books are written very similarly, I just looked at the cliffnotes and went on with my day. Same reason why I only finished 39% of my course on onenote 2010, who the fuck needs to finish the rest, microsoft made sure onenote was intuitive to figure out once you got the hang of it, and now I Am going to write a better onenote book chapter than all other shitty Onenote GTD e-books out there right now, for less price, and more content

Rapid Acquisition of ONE SKILL (a book summary, I shall predict of Josh K. in his first 20 hours)

• To give you an analogy of rapidly learning ONE particular skill, it looks like this:

• http://i.imgur.com/AmXwvxm.png . I wrote this in exactly 30 minutes from conception to finish (you can even see the time stamp it says 9:30 AM, its now 10 AM - reddit replies show proof of original time stamp of writing it), . This is one skill subject acquisition, in the shortest time frame possible. The little red circles with the shitty red lines are "Cat Scratches" essentially scratching the surface of the jute ball, Aka scratching the surface of subject mastery. The white cat would be me, the orange one is someone learning how i do things now. Blue lines refer to transitional stages , and in the end now, writing a book

• EDIT: RAPID drafting is extremely important too, and ONENOTE is CAPABLE OF ANYTHING. ANY COMPLEX IDEA, its a poor man's do-anything-you-want Visio. I draft a 15 page diagram on onenote before too, 1.5 years ago. That 20 year Nasa technician taught me proper drafting

• Despite the fact that I have used onenote less than other people, I am constnatly ALWAYS reinventing myself, learning my potentials like this post, and figuring out faster ways to do my job. Since I have too many projects to keep up with, I have to invest in my own skills , not the company's.

• I know how to acquire skills rapidly, because I spent 4,500 hours (it might have been less, i played a lot casually in university PvP) in guild wars 1 teaching myself in high school economics and running a business and stock investor trading. Pretty sure my high school hours were closer to 2000 hours where I learned everything. Then in guild wars 2, I was the god father of the d/d elementalist class, brought the shittiest class to popularity greatness, and learned marketing and writing guides purely on my own. I attribute most of my learning, business, and notetaking skills through video gaming MMOs and some anime shows, its how I can do 3rd hand correlations so fast and reverse engineer everything about a company quickly and determine new MVP routes outside the conventional ways of thinking. Because I was raised, unconventionally.

• Also, if this 1,000,000 char post doesn't prove to you I haven't mastered onenote and note taking, then I don't' know what to tell you. Who the fuck can say they've written a 15-30 page essay PER FUCKING DAY not double space, 11 pt font calibri, for one month consistently? I remember when I used to struggle to write that much in one month on school assignments, now its a fucking joke.

• EDIT: god damn i sound like a stupid TV commercial, billy mays style

• I don't even remember the other qualifications of other GTD note takers, they usually did get LOTS OF HELP, from other people for ideas, content flow, etc.. Nope, this book, this post, is almost ENTIRELY ORIGINAL purely from MY THOUGHTS ONLY. When I publish this book, I will get feedback, but ONLY AFTER i finished a 90% completed draft of the book, for the purposes of SURVEYING DATA ONLY. If I do it any earlier, I'd cheat myself of my thoughts, like grade beggars at school, like studying right before a test and just rote-memorizing. No, I know my social sciene & world history well, thanks to never studying the day before the test, 10 years later. I've not taken a class since. Neither on neuroscience. Neither on psychology.

• On paper, I am not an expert at anything, but I am a hidden think tank. I know my potentials, that's what matters, that's what YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT. YOUR POTENTIALS, not others. People laughed at me when i told them i was a 0.1% er in guild wars 1 laughed at me when i told them how legendary I was in guild wars 2, no, I gave myself a pat on the back, that's what fucking mattered. I accepted myself last month, let my crazyself out of the closet, and I feel great about it. I had suppressed my RAW POTENTIAL way too long

• I am glad my old self, saw every obstacle as a challenge like that fucking rock lee guy from naruto. He taught me shit too, an anime character.

• fucking hell , my abs are spasming from writing this, giving me adrenaline. Like I do when i play starcraft. Or intense dota games. Or 50v1 guild wars 2 battles.