My Extreme Productivity System (Learn ANY Programming Language)
Summary
TLDRThe speaker shares insights into their productivity system, emphasizing the importance of daily consistency over sporadic, intense sessions. They advocate for an hour a day approach to learning, which accumulates to significant progress over time. The speaker also discusses the importance of finding one's optimal learning method, organizing information effectively, and tracking progress through daily word counts. They suggest starting with a crash course to gain context before delving into daily study routines, aiming for a balance between broad initial understanding and incremental mastery.
Takeaways
- 😀 Consistency is key to productivity; doing a small amount daily is more effective than doing a lot once a week.
- 🤔 The speaker admits to having character flaws that make it hard to stay focused and consistent, yet the system works for them.
- 🎼 Learning an instrument or any skill benefits more from daily practice rather than a long session once a week.
- 📈 The cumulative effect of daily practice adds up over time, equating to substantial focused time over the course of a year.
- 🧠 The importance of focusing on learning per period of time, rather than the total amount of time spent, is emphasized.
- 📚 The speaker's personal productivity system involves writing a certain number of words each day to quantify learning.
- 📝 The use of a tool like Notion for tracking and organizing information is mentioned as an effective method for the speaker.
- 📈 The concept of 'crash courses' is introduced as a way to quickly gain context and motivation for a new subject.
- 📉 The speaker's experience shows that the first hour of focused work is the most productive, with diminishing returns as time goes on.
- 📝 The speaker tracks their word count to ensure they are internalizing and organizing information effectively.
- 🔧 The system can be adapted to different learning preferences, such as writing code examples instead of descriptive text.
Q & A
What is the main theme of the video script?
-The main theme of the video script is about the speaker's personal productivity system, which emphasizes the importance of daily consistent effort in learning new skills or improving existing ones.
Why does the speaker describe themselves as 'an average dummy'?
-The speaker uses the term 'an average dummy' to convey that they are not exceptionally talented or gifted, and that their productivity system can work for anyone, including those who may not consider themselves naturally skilled or consistent.
What is the speaker's view on the importance of consistency in learning?
-The speaker believes that consistency is crucial in learning, stating that doing something daily is more effective than doing it once a week, as it leads to a cumulative effect over time.
How does the speaker quantify their learning progress?
-The speaker quantifies their learning progress by counting the number of words they write each day, which helps them track how much they are learning or getting done.
What tool does the speaker use to keep track of their learning notes?
-The speaker uses a tool called Notion to keep track of their learning notes, which is code-friendly and allows for easy organization and structuring of information.
What is the significance of writing a thousand words a day according to the speaker?
-Writing a thousand words a day is significant for the speaker as it serves as a tangible goal that helps them focus and internalize the information they are learning, with the idea that 500 words can cover a topic.
Why does the speaker suggest doing the opposite of their daily system when starting a new subject?
-The speaker suggests doing the opposite, such as a crash course, to quickly gain context and change the way of thinking about a new subject, which can then be complemented by the daily system for long-term learning.
What is the speaker's approach to learning a new programming language?
-The speaker's approach involves initially watching a crash course to get a broad understanding and then using daily focused study sessions to delve deeper and internalize the language's concepts and usage.
How does the speaker deal with topics that are challenging or out of their comfort zone?
-The speaker acknowledges that when studying challenging topics, they might not meet their daily word count goal, but they emphasize the importance of focusing and doing the best they can within the given time constraints.
What does the speaker suggest for those who are not writers as a way to internalize information?
-For those who are not writers, the speaker suggests writing code examples as an alternative way to internalize information, which is particularly useful when learning a programming language.
How does the speaker plan to structure their future content based on the video script?
-The speaker plans to continue producing content related to productivity and life hacking, as well as programming, and will announce new content and courses through a newsletter for those interested.
Outlines
🚀 Extreme Productivity System for Learning
The speaker introduces an extreme productivity system aimed at efficient learning, emphasizing the importance of consistency over time. They admit personal flaws such as inconsistency and boredom, yet assert that their system can benefit anyone. The core principle is daily practice, as opposed to sporadic, intense sessions. The speaker provides practical steps to implement this in daily life, highlighting the effectiveness of an hour a day over a week's worth of study in a single day. They argue for optimizing learning per time period, using a hypothetical point system to illustrate the diminishing returns of extended study sessions.
📝 Quantifying Learning Through Daily Writing
The speaker details their personal method of tracking learning progress by counting daily word counts, which serves as a quantifiable measure of information absorption. They use the tool 'Notion' to organize notes, particularly for a C and C++ boot camp they are developing. The speaker breaks down topics into sections of approximately 5000 words each, finding this method effective for structuring knowledge in their brain. They also track their daily word count, aiming for a thousand words per day, and share insights from their tracking experience, including the variability in word count based on topic difficulty and personal motivation.
📚 Balancing Daily Study with Crash Courses
The speaker suggests a two-pronged approach to learning: daily study for incremental growth and occasional intensive crash courses to gain comprehensive understanding quickly. They find it beneficial to immerse oneself in a new subject to establish a foundational understanding before proceeding with daily study. The speaker shares their experience with learning new programming languages using online crash courses and emphasizes the importance of this initial immersion for setting the stage for effective daily learning. They encourage viewers to share their own productivity systems and express interest in creating content that balances lifestyle tips with programming topics.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Extreme Productivity
💡Consistency
💡Focused Time
💡Learning Rate
💡Daily Practice
💡Crash Course
💡Notion
💡Word Count Tracking
💡Optimizing Learning
💡Motivation
Highlights
This system is for extreme productivity, even for an average person with minimal daily time commitment.
Consistency is key; doing something daily is more effective than doing it once a week.
One hour of focused work per day can add up to 365 hours in a year, equivalent to nine weeks of full-time work.
Efficiency in learning is more important than total time spent; focus on optimizing your learning rate.
The first hour of study is the most productive; subsequent hours yield diminishing returns.
Identify your optimal learning method, whether it’s through videos, books, coding examples, etc.
Track your learning by quantifying it, such as counting the number of words written each day.
Use tools like Notion to organize and keep track of your notes and learning progress.
Writing down your knowledge helps internalize and structure it in your brain.
Studying a topic intensely for a single day can complement daily studying by providing a crash course overview.
When starting a new subject, a crash course helps shift your mindset and provides context for deeper learning.
Daily studying is like chiseling away at a block, gradually becoming smarter over time.
Combine crash courses and daily studying to maximize learning and retention.
The speaker tracks their writing with a goal of 1,000 words a day, adjusting based on topic complexity.
The system has been effective for the speaker in building a C and C++ master course.
Transcripts
today I'm going to be revealing the
truth about my extreme productivity
system now this is not an extreme system
it's a system for extreme productivity
meaning even an average dummy like me
can still learn new things and get
better at a skill with a very small
amount of time per day I mean let's be
honest I'm not the sharpest tool in the
shed the brightest light bulb in the
Light Bulb Store
I'm just kind of I have some serious
character flaws that make it very hard
for me to get anywhere with my goals
specifically I get bored I switch what
I'm interested in about every day I'm
not very consistent it's very
challenging for me to do something
consistently and I don't have some
magical Talent from birth by no means I
think I've kind of struggled my way to
learning how to code and kind of being
okay at software development
maybe I'm kind of being harsh on myself
but the reality is this system can work
for anybody now to be honest some of
these are going to be obvious like be
consistent and avoid burnout the same
stuff you've heard over and over again
but I'm going to give you some actual
practical steps to do this in your daily
life and what you can do starting today
and it comes down to one principle which
is doing something daily is more
effective than doing it say once a week
fairly obvious but let's say you wanted
to learn piano seven hours on Saturday
is not going to be as good as one hour a
day similarly if you want to you know
get some muscles you're not going to
work out seven hours on Saturday
you're going to do a little bit each day
or you know every other day or whatever
it might be but that consistency truly
helps because over time it adds up and
I've thought about this so many times if
you just do an hour a day of whatever
you're trying to achieve in the course
of a year you've collected 365 hours
which is like nine weeks of full-time
work 40 hours a week for nine weeks but
it's not just nine weeks of full-time
work it's nine weeks of the most potent
focused time imagine if you went to work
and you focused from beginning to the
end that's what it would be like if you
just did an hour a day of purely focused
time so you can actually get quite a bit
done in just an hour so this is
basically the system I've been using for
learning anything I want you know when I
was in school I spent an hour before
school to study C programming it didn't
take long for me to actually learn more
doing that than what I would learn in
class for multiple hours a day it's
because that hour was the most focused
it was the most productive of the entire
day so the secret here is that you want
to optimize for learning per period of
time so if we just made up some
arbitrary point system to quantify your
learning let's say if you did it as good
as you could it would be a hundred and
if you basically learned nothing it
would be zero if you study something for
say eight hours and each one of those
hours you have about fifty percent Focus
50 points you're going to have a total
of 400 points well what if you did the
same exact thing for four hours but you
did 100 on each of those 400 points
still
you can see that it doesn't really
matter the total amount of time you
focus and learn something what really
matters is how efficient your time is
being spent in your total learning
across those hours by optimizing for
your learning rate how much you learn in
a particular period of time let's say an
hour that is going to get you where you
want to go faster if you can optimize
your rate of learning and get as much
done in that hour as you can you're
going to get much farther than if you
study all day at a very low Focus slow
rate in my experience the way it works
is that first hour I can usually give it
a 100. if I study a second hour it's
like 80. a third hour 70 and 60. and it
just goes down by hour eight I'm
basically just sitting there I'm not
actually learning or retaining any
information so that time is wasted there
is a scenario when studying more than an
hour a day makes sense and that is if
you are optimizing for total amount
learned you know if you need to learn
something very quick quickly giving 100
in that first hour and then 80 in the
second hour you get a total of 180
across two hours which is like 90 per
hour
not trying to make this like too
mathematical or conceptual but I think
for most people it would make sense just
to get that 100 hour and do that every
day for a long period of time the next
thing I want to talk about is let's say
you start that hour what do you actually
do well you should figure out what's the
best way you learn and this might take
some experimenting maybe it's through
videos maybe it's through books maybe
it's through you know stack Overflow
just reading conversation or maybe it's
through coding examples that is really
up to you and you can experiment to see
what feels the most effective
then you have to think about how do you
actually log that information where do
you put it how do you organize it in
your brain for me the system that has
been working very effectively is
counting how many words I write a day
you can kind of quantify information in
words so you can have a better idea of
how much you're learning or how much
you're getting done if you see how many
words you've written now some of you
might not be writers that's fine it
doesn't necessarily have to be well
Polished Work but that's my way of
keeping track of my learning basically
taking notes so I'll show you a real
example of this for my C and C plus plus
boot camp I've been working on which
hopefully I'll be releasing here very
soon what I do is I basically wake up I
pick a topic that I want to learn about
and let's just go with types you know
the basic stuff and I start writing
everything I can about that subject I
break each one of these sections up into
about 5000 words and this tool I'm using
here is called notion which is just a
way for me to keep track of stuff so you
can see this one's 5500 words and I can
go through here and I like this because
it's very code friendly you can just use
like three backticks to write a code
section and that makes it very easy for
a software developer to take notes
but yeah you can see you can throw
pictures in there and examples and yeah
it's pretty thorough
and that's because I'm trying to
actually you know make something that is
public facing yours doesn't have to be
as fancy as this but I feel like having
this way of outputting all my knowledge
and information it's a little bit more
organized and actually more structured
in my brain so this is what I do and
this is what all of these look like so
this one here is you know roughly 5 000
words and you can see multiple examples
of whatever it might be there's only so
many Concepts in a programming language
so if you just keep doing this in theory
eventually you're going to cover the
majority of important things now I
decided to actually track how much I've
been writing because I wanted to see
what I was doing up until I started
tracking I just kind of did this in an
unofficial way where I would just try to
focus on whatever I'm studying a little
bit each day
but I really wanted to see if I actually
tracked words what it would look like
with the goal of writing a thousand
words each day which for me I think of
500 words to be a topic and a thousand
words would be like two topics so you
know one might be on a raise one might
be on 2D arrays and obviously starting
out I was pretty dang motivated and also
I was starting with some of the more
beginner content so getting a few
thousand words a day wasn't too big of a
deal you can see there's a few days I
kind of went on some writing sprees and
that's usually when I'm in flow and I
can basically cover a topic from
beginning to end there are days where
things are a little bit more challenging
if I'm studying something new like April
15th I only did 540 Words which was not
my thousand goal but I had a lot of
stuff going on that day it was a new
topic and I really didn't get that much
time to do this if I really focus and
it's a topic that's not completely out
of my comfort zone I can usually get a
thousand words like let's say on a April
12th I did a little over a thousand I
can usually do that in an hour or two if
the Topic's really easy sometimes I can
get even more words written you know
maybe two thousand and this day April
5th I already had some notes written
from a while ago so I basically just
edited those notes so that's why this is
much higher it really didn't take that
long it's not like I spent 10 or 20
hours you know writing that single day
so in this example I already have 42 000
words written for just C programming
which is quite a lot of information for
reference the first Harry Potter book I
think is roughly a hundred thousand
words so I'm almost to fifty thousand
it's like writing half of the Harry
Potter book this is just how things work
for me you can obviously modify this to
whatever you like you don't even have to
write if that's not your thing but there
has to be some way that you can
internalize that information if it's not
writing and describing things in words
the most likely alternative is going to
actually be writing codes examples which
makes sense if you're trying to learn a
programming language so instead of
wasting your time writing describing
what you're coding you could spend the
time actually just writing out examples
showing various inputs and what the
expected output would be almost like
test cases in a way but it doesn't have
to be so formal where you're like oh
here's every single scenario but you
know writing out a giant program that
shows different inputs and outputs and
just basically testing the different
scenarios for a programming language you
know what happens just for some examples
when you add numbers too high for an
integer does it overflow does it crash
what happens if you have a system for
basically writing down the knowledge you
learn then you have a way to basically
organize it and I think you'll
internalize it better too then when it
comes to figuring out what to actually
study just pick up a book go through the
table of contents that's going to give
you the general structure for how you
should learn and then as you're going
through that anytime you see something
new just write it down and go back to it
at some point in the future I personally
haven't been tracking the word count for
very long and I think long term I
definitely won't have an average quite
this High it'll probably be closer to a
thousand or I might even drop it down to
500 if I get into a lot of new stuff
that might take a little bit more time
now with the idea of taking an hour a
day and doing that for a long period of
time there is another step I suggest for
you and that is to do the exact opposite
and learn as much as you can in one
single day so this sounds contrary but I
think both of these can complement one
another specifically when you want to
start with a new subject I personally
find it very helpful to basically crash
course that subject in a single day or a
weekend or a week to get as much context
for that as possible so watch a crash
course online read an entire book
whatever it might be that's going going
to basically shift your mind to think in
that topic if it's a new programming
language you'll start to think in that
language or this could really be applied
to anything I've personally done this
for learning programming languages this
is what I did when I wanted to learn
react I basically found some crash
course online I watched essentially the
whole thing in a weekend coming out of
that video I didn't really feel like I
knew how to do much but I knew how react
would be used and some of the things to
look out for so when I came into a topic
later it wasn't completely new to me it
was something that I already learned at
some point in the past so I recommend
starting with that crash course and then
doing a little bit of studying each day
for a longer period of time the daily
work is more like chiseling away and
becoming smarter over time that crash
coursing is really to get motivated and
change your way of thinking and
basically give you a crash course of a
subject
so let me know your thoughts what
systems have worked for you this is one
I've tried a few other things before but
this one has been working very well for
what I'm trying to do right now which is
build a C and C plus Master course which
if that's something you're interested in
I will have a link to get on my
newsletter that's where I'll announce
new content and courses that I release
so definitely stay tuned for upcoming
content if you want more of this like
lifestyle life hacking productivity
stuff drop a comment or we'll just stick
to some more programming stuff but I
think I'd like to throw some content
like this in every now and again thank
you so much for watching and stay tuned
for the next video Peace Out And
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