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