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INSTANTLEARNING
How to Learn Anything Fast and Make It Last
J A M E S S K I N N E RR O I C E K R U E G E R
M A R K V I C T O R H A N S E N
© 2007, James Skinner, Roice Krueger, and Mark Victor Hansen, All rights reserved. 1
Ideas That Can Change Your Life™ in Learning
Instant Learning How to Learn Anything Fast and Make It Last
James Skinner, Roice Krueger, and Mark Victor Hansen
“Instant Learning” will show you how to organize
your study for maximum effect, both for retention
and for lasting change.
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The Authors
JAMES SKINNER is the founder of two global financial
groups that manage billions of dollars of assets. He is
also recognized as one of the world’s foremost business
thinkers and appears regularly on Japanese television.
ROICE KRUEGER co-founded Franklin Covey, the
world’s largest training company, and has supervised
consulting projects for 80 percent of the Fortune 500.
MARK VICTOR HANSEN is the co-creator of the Chicken
Soup for the Soul empire and is the best-selling nonfiction
author of all time. His goal is to make the planet work
for all humanity!
NOTE: Ideas That Can Change Your Life™ is a
collaboration of three of the world’s most amazing
authors, speakers, and thinkers. The first person “I” may
refer to any of the authors.
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Instant Learning
I used to teach something called Accelerated Learning.
Then I decided it was too slow, so now I am teaching
Instant Learning!
The fact is that human beings are unlimited in their
capacity to learn, change, grow, expand, connect, and be
inspired.
In fact, the first lesson of Instant Learning is to de-
hypnotize yourself from the social programming that
tells you that learning should take years.
You can move forward as fast as you want.
You can absorb information at the speed of
thought.
You can use the processes explained in this book to
get all A’s in school, to earn a doctorate, to pass an
exam, or just to become the smartest person on the
planet.
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Learning is the acquisition of knowledge and skills.
Instant learning is the acquisition of knowledge and
skills as fast as they are taught or demonstrated to you—
instantly.
Instant learning is the acquisition of knowledge
and skills as fast as they are taught or demonstrated
to you—instantly.
Instant Learning of Conceptual Knowledge
Step 1: Definition of Terms
The first step in learning any new knowledge is to clearly
define the terms. The better and more insightful your
definitions, the more meaningful your overall learning
experience will be.
If you are reading a book or textbook, find out how
that author defines the terms to be used and capture
that first.
Definitions:
Learning is the acquisition of knowledge and skills.
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Instant learning is the ability to acquire knowledge
and skills as fast as they are taught or demonstrated to
you—instantly.
The key question to ask yourself is “What is this
really?”
Make it a habit to get down to the root of things
right away.
What is this really?
Step 2: Categorization
Becoming an expert in any field is the process of making
finer and more detailed distinctions.
Experts make finer and more detailed
distinctions than others.
An expert on cars recognizes many types of cars.
She can tell them apart by manufacturer, vehicle type,
engine size, make and model, option package, color,
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condition, number of previous owners, or place of
manufacture. She is an expert.
Ski instructors can tell eight to ten different types of
snow apart from one another. The native peoples of the
North can tell 50! They are experts.
A speaker of Japanese can instantly recognize four
classes of verbs, all of which conjugate in different ways.
A grammarian who studies classical Japanese recognizes
more than ten types of verbs. They are experts.
As soon as you have nailed down the most
important definitions, start to capture the different
distinctions made by the experts and the categories or
boxes that they put things into.
For example, learning can be divided into the
learning of conceptual knowledge or the learning of
skills!
This distinction is important because it affects the
process we use in each case.
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The key question here is “How do we break this up
to make it more understandable or easier to apply?”
“How do we break this up to make it more
understandable or easier to apply?”
The more distinctions you know, the faster you
grow.
Step 3: Methodology and Application
As you capture the definitions and categories that make
up your field of study, begin taking notes on application.
How can the knowledge be applied or used? What
are the most common methodologies used in the field?
How do the best practitioners get the results that they
get?
The key question here is “How is this used?” or
“How is it actually done?”
How is this used? How is it actually done?
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Step 4: Add-ons
In every field of learning there are interesting facts and
information that you may want to capture but that are
not fundamentally important to understanding the
essence of that field.
Create a place in your notes to capture this
information as well.
Step 5: Relation and Evaluation
After you capture new information, you need to tie it
into your existing neural map. Learning can be thought
of as the linking of the known world with the unknown
world.
Your learning must be tied to what you already
know!
The key question here is “How is this like or unlike
the things that I already know?”
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“How is this like or unlike the things that I
already know?”
For example, you may find the Instant Learning
approach to be more structured than other learning
approaches you have worked with, or you may see it as
being similar to how a good textbook is constructed.
Another key factor here is to evaluate the
information. Add your own distinctions based on
knowledge you already have.
For example, if you are familiar with Mind Mapping,
popularized by Tony Buzan, you might add to your
notes “Mind Mapping could be used in this step to link
learning with past ideas.”
Step 6: Graphing
A picture is worth a thousand words. Where possible,
draw the relationships of the information as a graph,
picture, or other cohesive model.
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Draw the relationships of the information as a
graph, picture, or other visual model.
Our good friend Stephen Covey is the all-time
master of this. He took his 7 Habits and put them into a
model he calls the Maturity Continuum, which makes
the relationships instantly and easily recognizable.
Step 7: Color Coding
The final step is to color code your notes for Instant
Learning review.
Put the major headings in red, and the points for
review in blue. You should be able to review massive
amounts of information almost instantly by using this
approach.
Your notes for this book might look something like
this.
Definitions:
1. Learning is the acquisition of knowledge and
skills.
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2. Instant learning is the acquisition of knowledge
and skills as fast as they are taught or
demonstrated to you—instantly.
3. Learning is the linking of the known with the
unknown.
Categorization:
1. Conceptual knowledge
2. Skills
Methodology and Application:
1. Definition: “What is this really?”
2. Categorization: “How do we break this up to
make it more understandable or easier to apply?”
3. Methodology: “How is this used/actually done?”
4. Add-ons: “What interesting facts do I want to
retain?”
5. Relation and evaluation: “How is this like or
unlike the things I already know?”
6. Graphing: Cohesive model
7. Color coding: Title heads red, review points blue
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Add-ons:
The old technology is called Accelerated Learning.
Human beings have an infinite capacity to learn.
Your Notes Forever
Imagine for one moment that all your college courses
and textbooks had been reduced to a set of notes like
this. You could review your entire college education and
pass all your exams again with one to two days of
preparation!
Instant Learning of Skills
Skill is the ability to actually do what we know.
Skiing is a skill.
Public speaking is a skill.
Breaking boards with your bare hands is a skill.
And yes, you can even learn to instantly break
boards with your bare hands, and we have taught
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thousands of people to do just that with no more than
two to three minutes of learning!
VAK
The key to Instant Learning of skills is found in three
letters: VAK. These letters stand for Visual, Auditory,
and Kinesthetic.
To put it in more simple terms, skill is the process of
making use of our senses to produce results. And the
three that we most commonly use are sight, sound, and
feeling.
Visual: Focus
In modeling any skill, the first point of Instant Learning
is focus. What do people with this skill focus on when
they are performing at the highest level?
What does a great picker of stocks look for when
examining a new company?
What does a great public speaker focus on when
standing in front of a room of thousands?
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What does a great learner focus on when learning?
The Seven Steps of Instant Conceptual Learning,
after all, are nothing more than a model to help us focus
our learning efforts for a more effective result!
Auditory: Language
What do people with this skill say to themselves and
others when they are performing at the highest level?
What do the best sales people say to their clients?
What does an Olympic gold medalist say to herself
before every match?
What do the best parents tell their children? How do
they talk to them every day? What is the language and
tone of voice they use?
Kinesthetic: Use of the Body
More than anything else, skill is tied up with how we
actually use our physical bodies.
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Skill is the doing, and the doing is usually done with
this wonderful body of ours.
How do great teachers stand in front of a
classroom?
What are their gestures like?
What is their facial expression?
How does a great salesperson walk into a room?
Putting It Together
It really is as simple as that. If you want to learn a skill,
pay attention to the key areas of focus, the use of
language, and the use of the physical body.
Create a recipe for getting it done.
Find the difference that makes a difference!
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There will usually be three or four points that make
all the difference between those who get the best results
in any field and the rest of the pack.
For example, in the martial arts one change in
position of the lower spinal cord is all that is needed to
create what is called “the immovable body,” where not
even three people can push you over or move you from
the place you are standing.
Most practitioners spend ten years or more trying to
acquire this skill, but it can be yours in a matter of
minutes if you are focused on how the best people in
the field use their senses to produce the result that they
are getting.
This approach is called modeling. Find someone
performing at the highest level, and find out exactly and
precisely how they do it. Then do the same thing to
produce the same result.
The laws of physics treat us equally, and the results
are available to all!
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The Japanese martial arts have a wonder process
they call shu-ha-ri. It means obey-break-distance.
To obey means to do exactly as the master does.
The most focus should be place on this step. Follow
your model exactly until you can do it the same way they
do.
At the break stage, we start to remove or change a
single aspect of what the master does to see if it is
essential to our result.
This allows us to shorten the process and make it
more efficient. Wasted effort is eliminated.
At the distance stage, we distance ourselves from the
master or model, building our own unique approach.
We can do this effectively and efficiently at this point,
because we understand the original process and its most
essential elements. It is now time for our own original
flavor to come forth.
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The Law of Accelerating Returns
In closing, let us share with you the Law of Accelerating
Returns. It basically says this: “The more you do
something, the better you get, and the faster it goes!”
Instant Learning is the same. It is a skill. The more
you practice it, the better you will get.
Practice the method of note taking outlined here
until it becomes a natural part of your thought practice.
Work on the acquisition of skills, until new skills
start to come easily to you.
Become like a little child, curious about the world
and willing to absorb everything as naturally as rain is
absorbed into the dry earth.
Model the masters in every field. Be willing to follow
their process with precision until you understand.
Then, and only then, test it to see what elements are
essential.
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And finally add your own flavor to what you have
learned, making it uniquely yours.
With best wishes for your learning,
James Skinner, Roice Krueger, Mark Victor Hansen
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