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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.