Jim Kwik argues that two-thirds of your memory and intelligence is under your control, not fixed by genetics. Schools teach content but skip meta-learning: how to listen, take notes, focus, and retain information. He calls this missing skill the "4th R" and shows how to leverage your brain to improve focus, speed-reading, and memory.
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1/3 of your memory and your intelligence is predetermined by genetics and biology. That's the research. 1/3. That means 2/3 is in your control. You want to get into the best schools, you want to have the best jobs, you want to do the best research. The greatest advantage that you have, if there's one skill to master in the 21st century, it's your ability to learn faster. It's a must. It's not even a nice-to-have. You must be able to do that to keep ahead. If knowledge is power, learning is your superpower. The challenge though, there were no classes on how to learn. There weren't a lot of classes, you know what I mean? A lot of classes, important classes, on what to learn, right? Math, history, chemistry, Spanish, right? Important classes on what to learn, but there are very little classes on how to learn. How to listen, right? How to take notes, how to study, how to read faster, how to focus and concentrate. And how to remember and retain things. I always thought this should have been the 4th R in school. They teach you 3 Rs, right? Reading, writing, and what? Arithmetic. Arithmetic. But what about remembering, right? What about retention? What about recall? You know, Socrates said learning is remembering. I'm going to show you how to use your brain or how your brain works so you could work your brain. And so you could have better focus. You could be able to read faster. You could remember the things that you want to do.
