Over the past month, I have been paying close attention to the analytics for The Invisible Mentor blog, and I am sometimes amazed by what landed readers on the site. Today, I want to highlight some of the posts that landed people on the site from search engines. Next week we’ll return to the regular schedule: Adventures in Learning, Booked for Mentoring, Wisdom of Life and the Invisible Mentor Interviews. Einstein Distraction Index: A Method of Deep Focus Review: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, Translated by Edward Fitzgerald Summary of A Technique for Producing Great Ideas by James Webb Young 2011 Interviews for … [Read more...]
The Precursor to How to Master a Subject
March 31, 2010 by
Recently I had a blog post on How to Master a Subject. It was a good blog post and some readers really appreciated it, but I realized that there is a step, a precursor to how to master a subject. If you are investing the time to master a subject, it makes sense that you choose an area that you have an interest in as well as an affinity for. If you do not already know what your interests are, or if you want to test what you think, the first step in this process is to conduct a Personal SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats). Personal SWOT Analysis Strengths Weaknesses Identify the … [Read more...]
How to Master a Subject
March 22, 2010 by
Are you trying to master a subject? If you answered yes, mastering any subject matter takes a commitment of anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000 hours (Read the article Did Malcolm Gladwell Rip Me Off? by Michael Masterson), depending on which statistics you decide to believe. To begin the process of mastering a subject, answer the questions below. While you are reading the books identified at the library, record the information in the Subject Mastery Template. How to Read to Master a Subject Describe the specific knowledge that you are trying to acquire On a blank sheet of paper do a brain dump for 15 minutes, writing down as much as you … [Read more...]
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