How to Learn Anything Faster Than Everyone — Transcript

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1. 0:00This will this will be nasty for the
2. 0:01people who are listening at home.
3. 0:03So,
4. 0:05learning means same condition, new
5. 0:07behavior. So, phone rings, you answer
6. 0:10the phone, you say ABC. I say, "Cool.
7. 0:14Read this script instead that says DEF."
8. 0:17Phone rings, same condition, you say
9. 0:20DEF, you have learned. Same condition,
10. 0:23new behavior.
11. 0:24Intelligence
12. 0:26is
13. 0:27rate of learning. It's speed. It's a
14. 0:29measurement of speed. So, it means how
15. 0:32many times do you need to exposed to the
16. 0:34same condition in order to change your
17. 0:36behavior? If I teach someone something,
18. 0:39that script, and then on the first try
19. 0:41they say DEF, and someone else it takes
20. 0:43five tries for them to say DEF, they are
21. 0:45not as intelligent as the first person.
22. 0:47Here's why this is interesting.
23. 0:50Every person who's listening to this
24. 0:51right now has listened to a thousand
25. 0:53[ __ ] podcasts, and they're in the
26. 0:54exact same condition, and yet they have
27. 0:56not changed their behavior, which means
28. 0:58one, they have not learned, and two,
29. 1:00they are dumb.
30. 1:02Which also means that if you can control
31. 1:03your behavior, you can also control how
32. 1:05intelligent you are. And so, if you want
33. 1:07to be a smart cookie, then it means that
34. 1:09you just decrease the amount of times
35. 1:11that you do not change your behavior
36. 1:13under the same conditions. And so, when
37. 1:15I think about this, when I teach my
38. 1:17team, when I teach anyone, I think in
39. 1:20these conditions. And so, every time you
40. 1:23watch or you consume a piece of content
41. 1:24or you read a book, if you think, "What
42. 1:26behavior am going am I going to change
43. 1:28as a result of this?" If the answer is
44. 1:29nothing, you wasted your time, and you
45. 1:32pretended to be learning, but you were
46. 1:34really entertaining yourself. And so,
47. 1:36that frame has been incredibly helpful
48. 1:38for me to speed up how quickly I take
49. 1:40action, because I don't want to be a
50. 1:42dodo bird. So, that's two two different
51. 1:44ones, learning and intelligence. One
52. 1:46that I've been thinking a lot about with
53. 1:49Dr. K and I we go back and forth is
54. 1:51motivation. So,
55. 1:54I'll tell you a story, and then I'll
56. 1:55I'll bring it up. I'll bring it around.
57. 1:57So, I had a I was at an event and a
58. 2:00young lady said, "Alex, can you just
59. 2:02give me 60 seconds of motivation?" And
60. 2:04of course, it's like, you know, dance
61. 2:05monkey dance.
62. 2:07And so, I I you know, I took a deep
63. 2:09breath and I was like,
64. 2:11"Define motivation." And you know, she
65. 2:13just like melted. She had no idea,
66. 2:14right? I was like, "So, you're
67. 2:16you want me to answer a question or make
68. 2:18a statement about something that you
69. 2:20can't even define. And so, how would you
70. 2:22have any idea of whether or not I
71. 2:23actually did it?" So, motivation is the
72. 2:26equal opposite of deprivation. So, we
73. 2:29are
74. 2:30we are most motivated when we are
75. 2:33deprived of something. I'm most
76. 2:34motivated to sleep when I'm sleep
77. 2:36deprived. I'm most motivated to eat when
78. 2:38I'm deprived of food. I'm most motivated
79. 2:40to have sex when I haven't had sex in a
80. 2:41while. Now, that logic carries for
81. 2:44physiological needs.
82. 2:46But then you when you get into
83. 2:46psychological things or or intangible
84. 2:49constructs, so like let's think about
85. 2:51money. By that same logic, you'd think,
86. 2:53"Oh, poor people should be more
87. 2:54motivated because they're deprived of
88. 2:55money." But that we don't see that in
89. 2:57reality. Many poor people are not that
90. 2:59motivated.
91. 3:00So,
92. 3:01it would then follow and I've seen some
93. 3:03incredibly rich people who are wildly
94. 3:05hungry for money.
95. 3:07And so, then it would follow that the
96. 3:08deprivation comes from our reference
97. 3:10point.
98. 3:11Because money's intangible. And so, it's
99. 3:13how much do we perceive our deprivation
100. 3:15around money? And so, if all of my
101. 3:16friends are billionaires and I'm worth
102. 3:18$100 million,
103. 3:19then I have a $900 million deficit I
104. 3:23have to come up. I'm $900 million poorer
105. 3:26than the person who just is at 5,000 a
106. 3:28month who wants to make $10,000 a month.
107. 3:30I'm more motivated to make money than
108. 3:32they are because I'm more deprived of
109. 3:33it. And so, in thinking about this, I
110. 3:36then think, "Okay, what am I deprived of
111. 3:40that motivates me to go get it?" And
112. 3:41also, when I want to try and judge the
113. 3:43behavior of others or predict their
114. 3:45behavior, I have to think, "What things
115. 3:48are they deprived of?" Because they'll
116. 3:49have a much stronger
117. 3:51predictive power than trying to say,
118. 3:54"How do I motivate this person?" Look at
119. 3:56what they lack.