Hello podcast listeners, welcome back. My guest today is none other than Ali Abdal.

He is a huge time YouTuber. Cambridge med students now turned productivity guru and we linked up after having circled each other like two dear about to fence.

Circle each other for a while finally sat down I got him on the show to discuss about as timeless and evergreen a skill as you could hope to learn how to learn and remember anything fast.

Consuming retaining and deploying information literally is a superpower especially in the 21st century we don't have jobs for life anymore we now have jobs for half a decade or a decade and then you need to retrain re get new skills.

Many of you may be going back to studying university is just reopened now perhaps after the terror of covid this year you're looking to change career or just make yourself more competitive in the job market all of that requires you to be able to synthesize.

And then re remember all of the information that you have consumed Ali takes us through such a wonderful simple and robust framework for how you can improve your ability to study and retain information this really is a great run through.

There's a lot of references here to other books and other podcasts that you can go and listen to if you want to really deepen your understanding of this but Ali definitely is worth his salt his YouTube channel is phenomenal and if you enjoy what he gives us today I implore you to go and check that out we've also developed a bit of a bromance behind the scenes so you very well may see a collaboration in future on either his or my or both channels so stay tuned for that in other news if you listen to the music.

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I'm gonna say it's always a bit strange to hear a British accent on the end of like a productivity or like a you know just like any kind of podcast because like all of the ones I listen to it is so overwhelmingly American that when I want to hear a Brit it's like oh it's one of my boys.

There's my people this is my people here who do you listen to oh like all of the things I'm sure you do started out with Tim Ferris and then the fun of street and I've got like 80 on my podcast library thing which is you know now swelling.

I've recently started listening to a lot of Dave Asprey as well because I'm trying to get into the whole like hacking your health and all that stuff dabbled with a bit of Peter right here these are all like white American dudes so

yeah I get that I know that we're both mutual friends of Chris barks Tiago forte have you been introduced to Taylor Pearson yet I know of him through his website and stuff but I haven't spoken to him personally.

For normal writer like absolutely wonderful writer so today we're gonna be talking about how to learn and remember anything fast this is right slap bang in your wheelhouse I think yeah man this is like my specialist subject.

What was it like mastermind.

Yeah yeah mastermind that I'm not sure if that's still on but I used to fantasize about going on on the TV show and at the time my specialist subject would have been the Harry Potter books.

I still think it probably would probably would still be you reckon.

Yeah that's the only thing I actually know anything about but apart from that studying is another another specialist interest got you so where do we begin people are now just about arriving back to you.

Perhaps we have people who are maybe even venturing into a new career post covid or looking to become increasingly competitive in the job market they want to be able to consume retain deploy information and learning and comprehension and all this stuff where do we even begin.

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