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Build Rapid Expertise
- How to Learn Faster, Acquire Knowledge More Thoroughly, Comprehend Deeper, and Reach a World-Class Level (Learning How to Learn, Book 8)
- Narrated by: Russell Newton
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Categories: Business & Careers, Career Success
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Summary
A deconstruction of the elements of expertise and practical step-by-step methods to reach it as soon as possible.
Expertise - we all want it. Traditionally, it would take years of intense study and practice. But just because it’s always been that way doesn’t mean you have to follow that path. It’s time to use all the resources at your disposal and learn a new approach and a plethora of scientifically validated methods.
Accelerated expertise has a simple goal. Let’s help you get from point A to point B, where point B is an extremely high level of expertise in your desired area or topic. You’ll learn how to learn effectively, and what steps you must take to gain a respectable and enviable knowledge base.
Peter Hollins has studied psychology and peak human performance for over a dozen years and is a best-selling author. He has worked with a multitude of individuals to unlock their potential and path toward success. His writing draws on his academic, coaching, and research experience.
This audiobook will help:
- Make learning easier, more efficient, and more organized
- Learn myths, the biology of learning of expertise, and the most important mind-sets for expertise
- Understand what the industry leaders know and how to make sense of completely foreign topics
- Think outside the box and strategically accelerate your expertise
- Know how to collect information, filter, organize, understand, and master it
- Apply easy tactics to exponentially improve your memory
- Outpace, outthink, and outperform others
- Identify multiple models and paths to expertise, including using exemplars and finding knowledge gaps
- Learn what language acquisition and learning an instrument can teach us about expertise.
One percent of world-class expertise opens the door to the life you want. Expertise is always the goal, whether in the office or in our personal lives. They can mean very different things in each context, but the end result is greater happiness and fulfillment.
All you need is a clearer and deeper understanding of what expertise really is and how you can attain it. Begin the journey to the best phase of your life with this book.
This is the eight book in the Learning How to Learn series.
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- Anonymous User
- 27-09-20
Very helpful!
Have heard several of Peter Hollins books and have found all of them very helpful and efficiently structured in introducing ideas which has helped practically implementing them in my life.