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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. | |