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0 7760 You should take this course over a few days, say a week or ten days.
7760 13400 You could also go through the entire thing once, say over a weekend, to get the general
13400 20040 tone and flavor and then start again and deep dive for a week.
20040 25280 Mealy listening to the sessions at a stretch will teach you almost nothing.
25280 34320 It is your act of listening, pausing, looking up and thinking that will really help you.
34320 39000 As you start the course, divide these sessions according to your convenience for the next
39000 40560 few days.
40560 43880 Don't listen to too many sessions in a single day.
43880 48880 In courses such as this one, it appears that your goal is to go through all these sessions
48880 51080 as quickly as you can.
51080 53440 But that is not your objective.
53440 56520 Your objective is not to listen and learn.
56520 60360 Your primary objective is to contemplate.
60360 63120 Listening will help you very little.
63120 68160 It is your notes and your contemplation about your notes that will help you extract the
68160 71360 insights out of the process.
71360 73920 So follow a thumb rule.
73920 79680 For every one minute of listening, you must spend five or more minutes on contemplation.
79680 84920 That means if you listen for fifteen minutes, you must think for seventy-five minutes.
84920 86920 So listen to the session.
86920 93520 Pause often, make a lot of notes, then put the session away and think.
93520 97440 Sit at a quiet place or take a walk and think.
97440 103640 If you are not used to contemplation, consider it to be a new physical and mental routine
103640 108600 because it requires you to do something you probably haven't done.
108600 114920 You have to stop doing what you were doing, get your mind and sometimes your body away
114920 121400 from all other distractions and tell yourself, for the next hour or so, I am only going to
121400 124840 stare into blankness and think.
124840 127440 Your primary objective is not listening.
127440 130400 Your primary objective is thinking.
130400 135440 Use the course material merely as a means to think.
135440 141280 It is this deep thinking, this contemplation about things that matter to you, that will
141280 146560 generate insights and create new connections inside your brain.
146560 153600 This is what gets missed out when the external world is too fast paced and noisy.
153600 159720 You need to cut off, go inward and ponder silently.
159720 162880 It is not about you going through the course.
162880 167600 It is about the course going through you that matters.
167600 170400 So don't rush, make the course work for you.
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