Reading experience of "Building a Superhuman Brain": Insight into the essence of things and take action quickly
A book that coincides with the learning policy
Speaking of the content of the book “Build a superhuman brain - extremely fast reading, writing, continuous evolution, and the counterattack formula for rapid growth of novices (opens in a new tab)”, I am actually not unfamiliar with it. On the one hand, it is because I have been paying attention to Zheng Yiting (Xdite) since he started planning to write this book (https://github.com/xdite/memory-hack/blob/master/SUMMARY.md (opens in a new tab)); on the other hand, my own learning action plan coincides with some of the concepts mentioned in the book. So, when I learned about “Building a Superhuman Brain (opens in a new tab)” was published. In addition to rushing online to order twenty books at once, I also decided to hold a reading party to share it with my friends.
The night before yesterday, I held the September book club in Fun Workspace. I focused on “Building a Superhuman Brain (opens in a new tab)” I would like to share this book with you. In addition to dismantling the learning methods mentioned in the book, I also share my own writing tips with you. I would like to thank my friends for their support of this book and the Vista Reading Club. Special thanks to two good friends, Jia Xin and Dongdong, for traveling all the way from Changhua and Hsinchu. It is really touching.
“Build a superhuman brain (opens in a new tab)” This book has several obvious advantages. First, it is based on the author’s own empirical evidence. Second, the content is easy to understand, and you can quickly understand the key points that the author wants to express. However, as I told everyone at the book club, the focus of this book is not just “reading fast” or “inputting more”, we also need to screen, filter and process to effectively “output valuable ideas”.
Key methods to enhance retention
Just like the author of this book mentioned, if you want to enhance retention, the key is to review within an hour, and it is best to organize and publish it immediately, and then integrate and design your own unique method.
This also reminds me that when I attend some courses or lectures, I often write down my experiences on the day… Some friends praise me for writing articles quickly, or others jokingly call me the “King of Notes”. In fact, I just review in this way and try to internalize it into useful knowledge.
When the book mentions the level-based learning method, it is also recommended that you organize your notes into technical articles and publish them. I think that as long as you practice writing more, you will speed up your writing and train yourself to express your ideas bravely. Over time, you will naturally be able to express some truth or unique viewpoints.
Make good use of first principles to accelerate learning
In addition, the author also encourages everyone to make good use of “First Principles (opens in a new tab)” to accelerate learning. The way of thinking of “first principles” is actually to look at the world from the perspective of physics; in other words, it is to peel off the appearance of things layer by layer, then see the essence inside, and then go up layer by layer from the essence.
Only those who can see the essence of things have the power to change the world.
You know, changing the world may not be easy, but at least we can start by changing ourselves. After reading the book “Building a Superhuman Brain (opens in a new tab)”, it will make people think that “whatever you do is what you are”. Well, now let’s do it together!
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Vista Cheng speaks and runs workshops on AI workflows, writing and content systems for companies, schools and public agencies.
