Book Summaries
Disss by Tim Ferris
1. DiSSS: A meta learning process – learning how to learn (meta analysis). DiSSS can be applied to any skill or task. DECONSTRUCTION – What are the LEGO blocks? Breaking something big into a smaller units. Ask a lot of questions.
- DiSSS: A meta learning process – learning how to learn (meta analysis). DiSSS can be applied to any skill or task.
DECONSTRUCTION – What are the LEGO blocks? Breaking something big into a smaller units. Ask a lot of questions.
SELECTION – Which 20% of the blocks will give me 80% of the outcomes I want? Pareto principle.
What you do is more important than how you do it.
SEQUENCING – In what order should I learn the 20% blocks? Logical progression.
STAKES – How do I set up real stakes to guarantee follow-through? A service to help with this is stickK − Change Starts Now2.
CaFE: How to simplify retention of the information you have just DiSSSed.
COMPRESSION – Can I encapsulate the most I important 20% into an easily graspable one-page?
FREQUENCY – How frequently should I practice? What is the minimum effective dose (MED) for volume?
ENCODING – How do I anchor the new material to something I already know? ————- From the book: Deconstruction – What are the minimal learning units, the Lego blocks, I should be starting with? Selection: Which 20% of the blocks should I focus on for 80% of the results? Sequencing: In what order should I learn the blocks? Stakes: How do I set up stakes, create real consequences, and guarantee I follow the program? CAFE: Compression: Can I encapsulate the most important 20% into an easily graspable one-pager? Frequency: How frequently should I practice? Can I cram and what should my schedule look like? What growing pains can I predict? What is the minimum effective dose (MED) for volume? Encoding; How do I anchor the new material to what I already know for rapid recall? Acronyms like DiSSS and Cafe
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