Mastery: How to Learn Anything Fast | Nishant Kasibhatla

Raise your hand if you think you have a fantastic memory. Okay, I can see a couple of hands raising. So let me make it easy for you. I'm going to ask you a easy question. Raise your hands if you think you have a bad memory. A lot more hands going up right now. And what would the rest of you did not raise the hands? You forgot to raise your hand. Well, here's a good news. It really doesn't matter whether you think you have a good memory or not, because it's a fact that you can train your brain to remember better, to learn faster, and to achieve mastery in anything you want in your life. And I'd like to show you something really interesting here, which actually demonstrates to you what you can do with your train your brain. Now, I would request any five of you, any five people can have a volunteer to please come here and write something on the flip chart. Yeah, we got two volunteers right from here. So, one, two, three, thank you. Four, thank you. Okay, I promise you, you don't have to remember anything. So that's a good thing, yeah? Okay, so we got one more person, one more person. Let's go on. Just one more person, I want one more person to come up. Yes, sir, please come. Okay, anyone, it's fun. All right, so we got five big applause for all of them here. Thank you very much for volunteering. Okay, so this is what's going to happen. So I think you can start using the nearest flip chart. So all you need to do is just open it for you. So, all you need to do is to write a six, one that's really fine. Write a six digit number on this flip chart, write it a little big, so everyone in the audience can see. So one line, a six digit number, and after you've done this, please pass a mark at the next person. You write the six digits, six digits, six digits, and, sir, is it okay if you stay back after you written on your digit? Because I need a little bit more help from you. Okay, good? Okay, perfect. So, so I'm going to go behind the flip chart. So, because I'm not going to look at these numbers for the next few minutes. Okay, good. So, you also need to write a six digits, a random number. Okay, good. Now, you also need to write a six digits, a random number. All right, so if everything went well, you should be having a 30 digit number on the flip chart. Is that correct? Okay, big one of the flip charts for everyone. Thank you very much. And please have a seat. Have a seat. Except you. Can I know your name, please? Thank you. Angela. Angela is here because I'm going to help you with the important thing. Okay, now what's going to happen is, I'm going to stand behind the flip chart. And Angela, if you don't mind, can you please call these numbers to me out loud one by one? Yes, go ahead. Seven. Right. Seven. Right. Seven. Right. One. Right. Two. Right. Zero. Right. Four. Right. Eight. Right. Six. Right. Seven. Sorry, I think I just messed up a little thing here. So after you said two zero, what are the next number? Four. Eight. Okay, next. Six. Okay. Seven. Right. Three. Right. Seven. Right. Zero. Right. Three. Right. Zero. Seven. Seven. Seven. Right. Three. Right. One. Right. Nine. Right. Eight. Right. Six. Right. Nine. Right. Five. Right. One. Six. Right. Six. Right. Five. Three. Three. Right. Four. Right. So thank you very much. We don't have a plus for Angela here. Perfect. Thank you. All right. So of course, you're expecting me to do something. Which is true. So what's going to happen is I'll try to recall this numbers for my memory. And you see how it goes. The numbers are. Seven. Seven. One. Seven. Okay. I messed up. They start again. So it's seven. Seven. One. Zero. Four. Eight. Six. Seven. Three. Two. Seven. Seven. Three. One. Nine. Eight. Two. Um. After. That. Should be. It's nine. Five. Uh. One. Six. Two. Five. Three. Okay. So. Just got one. Okay. So. What was the time right now? Or is it time right now? Eight. Five. Eight. Eight. Four. Eight. Four. Eight for five. Eight. Nine. Five. Eight. Eight. Five. Eight. Now, what all of my records is, I memorized a number consisting of 1,944 digits. It looks something like that. I memorized a deck of playing cards in less than two minutes. I also memorized a deck of seven decks of playing cards in 60 minutes. So for those of you who are thinking of taking me to the casino, I'm available, or you can talk about the negotiation later on, and also I became a grandmaster of memory many years ago, and also a broke against record in memorizing the longest sequence of colors. Now it is true that I broke against record in memory, and it's also true that many years ago, I used to hold a world record in forgetting. It's not official. If you ask my mom and dad, they'll tell you, I had a lousy memory. In fact, I still remember one of those days when my 15-year soul, I, my mom asked me to buy something from the shop. I got onto my bicycle, went to the shop, talked to my bicycle, went into the shop, and as I was going into the shop, I totally forgot I went there on a bicycle. Worked out of the shop, and started walking back home, and the most embarrassing thing was, I realized I left my bicycle only the next day. Now, for those of you wondering, what happened to the bicycle, well, you guessed it, I lost it. So I had a lousy memory, I went from a person with a lousy memory to breaking against record. The good news is, anyone can train their memory, anyone can become a fast learner, because today, I'm going to show you my formula of how you can learn anything and master anything in a fun, easy manner. So I'm going to show you some pictures on the screen as, and do some famous people, so who is this? Thank you. Who's that? Thank you very much. And who's this? And then who's this? We're moving forward. Let's have a quick interaction here. Can you please find a partner? The person's doing next to you by default, becomes your partner, groups of two suitories is fine. I'll get 10 seconds, and you exercise very simple. Can you please turn your partner and tell him or her? What is common among all these people? You 10 seconds, start snob, go ahead. OK, thank you very much. That's about 10 seconds time. Thank you very much. Can I have some answers? Be shout out loud. What is common? Boolean air. Thank you. What is that? Rich? Of course, the rich, the Boolean air is whatever. Let's come on. Americans are there. Oh, the next time I should change that. Thanks for pointing at it. Next. Celebrities? What else? Inspiration. That's true. Now, can I also say that all these people are masters at their game? Do you agree with that? Well, they're masters at their game. So, you know, there are a teenager growing up, when I used to read or hear about successful people and their extraordinary achievements. I always used to be fascinated by their stories, and I always used to wonder, you know, what is it that makes these people very, very successful? Now, I'm talking about way back 1990s, and those days there was no internet. And if you want to do research in 1990, what do you do? You go to library. That's exactly what I did. I went to a library. I fell in love with reading books, and I used to read hours and hours. And finally, when I started reading, a lot of these books, I found out the secret of success. Like most of you say, I mean, they're all rich in billionaires, but then most of the common things like, you know, they're passionate, all these people, they're passionate, they have clear goals, they have a good purpose, they're hardworking, they're committed, they're confident, but one thing that many people miss out is they all have committed to lifelong learning. You name any person who has achieved extraordinary levels of success, I can tell you that that person has committed to lifelong learning, they keep on learning new things on a regular basis. Like Oliver Riddle home said a long time ago, a mind that is stretched by a new experience, can never go back to its old dimensions. And that is the reason I say that your learning ability decides your learning capacity. And as also the reason why, if you learn faster, you will stand out from everyone else. If you learn faster, you can go from underpaid to OP, and if you learn faster, you can have an unfair advantage over others. So the question is, how do you learn? So it all starts with input. And what I mean by input. Now most people, they just focus way too much on input, what I mean by input is, they go to seminars, they read books, they watch videos, they listen to podcasts, they follow blogs, it's input input, input input and more input. Well, there's nothing wrong with learning, the problem is, if you have too much of input with no output, what happens is you have shallow learning, that's not good. What we want is not shallow learning. For example, how many of you had this experience where some of your friends come to and say, hey, read this book? And then you go, yeah, what do you learn from this book? And then they go, it's a good book, it's a very good book, you know? And then you go, okay, I understand what you're saying, but what's the take away from this book for you, I say, I tell you, you must read this book, well, what is the point of learning something if you can't implement it and benefit from this, that is pure intellectual entertainment, nothing else. We don't want shallow learning, we want deep learning, and how do you do that? We do it, it's very simple, for true mastery, you need to focus more on the output rather than the input, you need to focus more on the output rather than the input. So raise your hand, I feel heard this thing before. Yeah, thank you very much, so use it, this is so true with learning. Then you learn something, if you don't use it, if you don't output it, you lose it. So that's reason why we should become more of an output person than input. And here's my formula of how you can be a master at anything. The first thing is of course, learn, which is what you're already doing. Now the interesting thing is when you are learning, you must ensure that the quality of input is really, really high, you must be paying 100% attention, but the problem is when people are learning these days, what do they do? They do multi-tasking, because of what, because of the devices that you're actually holding right now, because of the phones that we have, people do multi-tasking, just imagine, when you're reading a book, when you're watching a video, you have your phone nearby, and while you're reading, while you're learning, while you're understanding, and the phone message goes off, there's the notification goes off, what do you do? Of course, you attend to it, even when you attend to it, what happened, what you just did? You killed your momentum. You messed up with the quality of input. Now here's the thing, your quality of input determines the quality of retention, how well and how long can you remember information. It also affects the quality of recall. That's the reason why my suggestion is, if you are learning something, at least for the time you're learning, you should be doing not multitasking, but the exact opposite of it, which is single-tasking, do one thing at one time, especially when it comes to learning, stay away from distractions, pay 100% attention, and then you'll be well on your way to mastery. That's the first thing. The second thing, of course, is reflect. Now, many people are in the rest to learn new things, which is good, but the problem is, you don't, you also need to do reflect, what do you mean by that? After you learn something, pause for a while, and ask yourself, hey, what's the takeaway from this thing? And how can I use this information in my life? How can I use this information in my work, in my family? When you pause, when you reflect, when you ask these questions, that's how learning solidifies. Otherwise, it's all just wasted. And after reflect, the next step is implement. This is where the magic happens, and unfortunately, many people miss out on this thing. What they do is they go on learning new things, they get excited, and they feel good, they feel inspired, and they go on to learn something new. You just missed out. The problem is, if you get into the habit of just learning without implementation, you know what you get, you get illusion of competence. You feel, you've learned it. You feel your competence, but it's not competence at all, because you haven't implemented. So my suggestion is, when you are learning something, stop, write down what are the few things I can take action on, schedule it in the calendar, and take some action, because this is what my, one of my mentors told me, the Shanth allows the action is better than no action. Do you agree with that? Thank you very much. And of course, the last step is share. Raise your hand if you heard this thing before, the best way to learn something is to teach it. Thank you. You all heard that. That's true. When you learn something, just output it, just share it with other people. Now if you don't know, if you don't want to teach, they could just share it, you would just discuss it. But what happens is when you share things with other people, what you're doing is, you're helping your brain to pay more attention, and then you will be on your path to mastery. So I have not seen anyone who became a master at something just by doing the input. They all became masters by doing the input and more of the output. So I have a question for you. When you are learning something new, how much time do you spend on learning? And how much time do you spend on reflecting, on implementing, and on sharing? And if you're not spending more time on input, in output, that's sort of good thing. Now come back to the numbers. I'm memorized. I'm just, I know you're wondering how I memorized these numbers. Now for that, I have a simple system. It's called visualization and association. How many of you believe that the brain remembers pictures better? Yes? That's why we always say, I have seen you somewhere, sorry, what's your name? Do you ever say, I know you're name, what's your face? Doesn't happen, because that's why the human brain works. So what I do is I have pre-assigned visuals for every two digit number. So as Angelo was calling these numbers to me, so what I did was I tried to, you know, convert those into the numbers, visuals that I already have, and I use association to link them up together. Now if you want recognition, how do you do so fast? That is where implementation comes. When you practice, when you implement it, that's how you become a true master. In fact, when I do these workshops, people can do this at the end of one day or two days. It's not that easy if you know the right technique. Now coming back to this thing. Oops. I have a simple solution for you before I close. And this is this. If you're spending x amount of time on input, my solution is at least spend two x amount of time on output. And when you do that, you are well on your way to be a master at achieving anything you want. Because I messed up a couple of fur digits. I want to challenge myself. I've got inspired after monotone speech. I want to challenge myself and turn out my fear and face my fear. And what I'm going to do is just take one moment. I'll try to recall this number one more time after speaking for twenty minutes. Okay. No. If you don't go, well, just cut this out from the YouTube. Okay, that's good. Okay, good. So, let me see if you can recall these numbers. In the backward sequence. I'm challenging myself. I want to use 4, 3, 5, 2, 6, 1, 5, 9, 2, 8, 9, 1, 3, 7, 7, 0, not yet. 3, 0, 2, 3, 7, 6, 8, 4, it's 0, 2, 1, 7, 7, 7. Thank you very much.