Don’t Waste Time Watching Ted Talks

Without doing this

“I saw and I forgot. I read and I remembered. I did and I Understood.”

I want you to calculate how many Ted Talks or motivational speeches you’ve seen on YouTube alone. You know, the ones about life and making tons of money, and — oh yeah, that reprogramming your mind stuff you always search.

Now, truthfully, how much have you remembered?

If you’ve simple watched a video once and then moved on to the next, then the answer is probably very little.

Does this mean you’ve wasted your time? Not completely.

You will still have some recollection of the video and, if you were to watch it again, you will probably remember what the dude or dude-ess will say.

But the information has not STAYED with you because you did effectively download it into your heart, into your long-term memory.

This means your time was not used effectively. Say you spent 30 minutes watching a video a year ago. You probably have only retained 30 seconds of that video. So yes, most of your time is being wasted if all you are doing is watching.

Whenever I now watch an informative video I:

• Take Notes; this can be on my phone or in a diary.
• Draft a summary of the video and keep it for reference.
• Watch the video again in the future.
• Apply the knowledge in the video into real-life situations.
• Teach someone else the idea I have acquired from the video to help me retain the knowledge better.

This will, hopefully, save you a lot of time in the future, and help you to retain the knowledge so you can pull it out like a gun on a Cowboy when you will most need it.