How to Become a Genius (This is a Sample Blog Post)

One of the biggest secrets of top entrepreneurs that I have discovered lies in the way they go about learning. Being able to learn quicker and retain more information than your competitor is a huge advantage. So just what do they do different then that average person?

#1 They are Dedicated to Learning
This is not really a secret but I feel its necessary to understand. Most of them read 1 - 2 books per week, some read 3-5 books per week.  The Biggest Mansions often have the biggest libraries.

Here is something scary
1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.
80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
57 percent of new books are not read to completion.
(Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

Below is quote one of my mentors told me about learning when I graduated college.

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or gazelle - when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.”

#2 They purchase knowledge
They invest in themselves and there education constantly. Napoleon Hill once said it pays to know how to purchase specialized knowledge. This is something that all A-Players know how to do

"Successful men, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession. Those who are not successful usually make the mistake of believing that the knowledge acquiring period ends when on finishes school. The Truth is that schooling does but little more than to put one in the way of learning how to acquire practical knowledge."
-Napoleon Hill, Think and Grown Rich, Copyright 1937

The Proof: Eben Pagan, Dan Kennedy, Frank Kern all do not have college degrees yet they have never stopped learning and as a result are very successful.

#3 They Make use of Idol time

The Average american spends 240 hrs a year commuting to his job.  240 hrs per year is more than the typical class room time of a college student.  This Idol time is wasted by listenting to the music or even worse listening to negative news.  A-player entreprenuers do not waste this time.

They Turn their car into a university on wheels.  They carry their ipod around them which is loaded with audio programs and seminars.  That 15 minute wait at the doctors is spent learning instead of reading a magazine.  I have even heard of A-level entreprenuers now carrying around kindle whereever they go so they can read during idol time.  Idol time  spent running or at the gym could also be converted into learning time.

#4 Increased Input Speed

This is a Big secret used by almost every A-level entrepreneur.  However it is never given much thought or even shared by those who use.  I now can watch a 9 hour seminar in 3 hours.   I have saved hours because of this simple secret.  Enter Speed Watching/Speed Listening

I first got Idea of this when I saw a twitter converstion between Frank Kern and someone else.  They were discussing how they turn the playback speed up to 2x when listening to audio programs.  That means that a 4 hour audio book could be listened to in 2 hours.  I later heard Rich Schefren discuss how he personally listens at 4x.  A 4 hour seminar in only 1 hour!  When you only have 24 hours in a day saving 3 hours is huge.

How to Speed Listen/Speed Watch

What You Need: GOM Players or Quicktime or Windows Media Player (any player that has playback control, I personally use the GOM Player for Videos and the Windows Media Player for Audio)

Step 1: Test to see at what speed you can comprehend.  Most people can listen at 2-2.5x naturally and if you can do that you will already cut your learning time in half!

Step 2: Overspeed Training.  Listen to a speed for 7-10 minutes  that you have difficulty understanding.  Example if can naturally listen to audio at 2.5x then in order to increase your listening capabilites to 3x.  You would listen at 3.5x for 7-10 minutes, try to understand as much as you can.  Then go back to 3x.  Essentially you are speeding up your brain and allowing it to process quicker.  If you do this for a couple of weeks you should be able to get up to at least 3.5x.

Speed Reading

This is also very important.  I have almost tripled my reading speed.  I originally tested my self at 170 wpm and now I read at 500 wpm with the same comprehension.

Heres what I recommend EyeQ.  This is a program that strenghts your eye muscles with exercises that take 7 minutes a day.   This alone doubled my reading speed.   I would also recommend 10 day to faster reading.  These are the two programs that have really help me.

#5 Downloading Information

I always dreamed that their would be a way to just click a button and download information into your brain.  Kind of like Keanu reeves in the Matrix. "I know Kung Fu".  Well this is exactly what A-Level Entrepreneurs do.

A study shows that new information or ideas heard only once is at least 50% forgotten in 48 hours and 90% lost in 16 days without reinforcement.  High Level Entrepreneurs know this big secret.  So how do they learn?

They learn by Spaced Repetition Learning (Over learning)

You have used spaced repetition yourself and probably not noticed.  Have you ever learned the lyrics of a song without trying.  That is spaced repetition learning, it is how we humans naturally learn.  The best part is you dont even have to try to learn the material if you hear it enough times you will essentially download the information into your head.   Even better you dont have to do this during focused blocks of time such as reading or writing.  You can listen when you are driving, workingout at the gym, or even sleeping.  Idol time, you can try not to learn it just like the lyrics of those annyoing songs that you are ashamed to know the lyrics too.

How to do it

1. Listen to and audio program 7 times in 30 days during Idol time.