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