How to Master Anything Quickly

Do you sometimes feel like you are a slow learner? Do you feel that after reading a book you still haven’t learned much from it, or have you just gone 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 mastering 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 for 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, I would listen to each track once, do the exercises, and then move on. Maybe once or twice you review your notes or listen to a track a few more times. But to get much more out of the audio program, I would listen to each track several times in a short period of time. Then he would go 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 repeat with anything like audio, books, memory cards, etc. But, in my opinion, audio is by far the most effective. With audio you don’t need time alone 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. It will eventually become a habit. Or if it is split into multiple tracks, I would listen to a certain track at least 7 times before moving on to the next.

If you do this on whatever you’re trying to learn, I promise you’ll get a LOT more out of it. You’ll 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 get the hang of anything quickly.