A Small Learning Hack

Do you want to retain much more of what you learn in your study for the day?⁣
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Allow me to share a short story.⁣
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When I resumed coaching privately in April 2023, I had a lot of new experiences from the last few years:⁣
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- Selling low-ticket memberships/subscriptions;⁣
- Creating 20+ chess courses; ⁣
- Running a high-ticket group coaching program;⁣
- Going through the whole learning/mastery process again with poker (which continues to this day).⁣
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These experiences gave me a much better understanding of how to help students improve much more rapidly. ⁣
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In my early 20s, I would verbally tell students what to do to improve, but they would often forget it, due to it not being written down.⁣
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Now, at the end of every lesson, I make sure to write down a 'Training Plan' with the key study suggestions.⁣
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But there's something even more powerful that I do. ⁣

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I get the student to say, in their own words, the main insights they gained/things they loved in the session. (A technique I learned from High Performance Coaching). I write those down in the lesson notes, as the summary of the lesson.⁣
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When you put something in your own words, it's so much easier to remember it. It also proves that you understood the lesson. ⁣
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Recently, I thought - why not do this for every day of our Study? (not just when we have a lesson). ⁣
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But it's harder to keep writing notes without an 'audience' to share it with, right? (At least, that's true for me).⁣
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So what I did in the last days is, I created a WhatsApp group and added two of my poker friends to it. I named it 'Daily Study Notes' and each day, I write bullet points of the things I learned that today on an important topic. ⁣
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This is a great way to leverage other people - by sharing a summary of what you learned with a few others, it doesn't just improve your understanding/retention of what you learned but also creates that accountability (did you do what you said you would do?), and the process of explaining/teaching to someone else is the most powerful way to master the skill yourself. ⁣
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So my suggestion for you this Boxing Day is:⁣
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- Start a WhatsApp group 'Daily Study Notes';⁣
- Invite a couple of trusted chess friends who have similar ambitions to you; ⁣
- Write as the first message 'The purpose of this group is to share a summary of what we learned each day from our chess study.' (you can always add aspects like accountability and training games later). ⁣
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By the way, I've had a lot of inquiries about my coaching in the last few days and already made some initial arrangements. I expect the 2 private coaching spots to be taken very soon, so this may be the last chance for you to get in at the current price.