Archive | April, 2012

The Ultimate Beginners Guide To Triathlons

This is a guest post by Joel Runyon, writer, triathlete and author of Impossible TRI. I spent about 5 years of my life wanting to do a triathlon. I didn’t know how to do one, and I didn’t know anyone who had done one so I never did one. I thought triathlons were only for insane athlete [...]

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Definitive Guide to Fitness Reps, Sets, Tempo, & Rest

Becoming an expert can be a serious time commitment and both physically and mentally draining. However, being Expert Enough means your smart enough to know that all you really need to understand are the most valuable or key concepts in a given area. Whether that be rapid language learning, nuances of the tango, or honing [...]

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The Direct Path to Becoming an Expert

Direct Path to Becoming an Expert

This is a guest post by Dolly Garland of Kaizen Journaling. A while ago, Expert Enough did a post titled Do Shortcuts Exist to Becoming an Expert?. There were a lot of insightful answers from super successful people, but it was one comment that influenced this post today. Seth Godin said, There aren’t shortcuts. Merely [...]

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The 7 Rules of Highly Effective Habits

effective habits

This is a guest post by Barrie Davenport of Live Bold & Bloom. I have a coaching client who weighed over 400 lbs. She never exercised and ate a poor diet consisting of a lot of junk food and sweets. She didn’t socialize much because she was embarrassed about her appearance. At age 33, she’d [...]

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Learn Anything Faster with the Feynman Technique

After recording Wednesday’s Expert Enough show with Scott H. Young, I spent some time over on his YouTube channels (he has one for his blog and a separate one for the MIT Challenge we discussed in the episode). This particular gem below really stood out. The Feynman Technique (named after the Nobel prize winning physicist) [...]

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How to Rapidly Learn Anything with Scott H Young (Expert Enough Show #5)

Is it possible to complete a four year computer science degree from MIT in just one year? That is what Scott H. Young is out to accomplish. Today on the Expert Enough Show, we sit down and talk with Scott H. Young about how to learn things rapidly and how he has already completed 17 of [...]

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Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is Wrong

everything you thought you knew about learning is wrong

What if everything you knew about learning was wrong? In a recent article on Wired, Robert Bjork, the director of the UCLA Learning and Forgetting Lab, claims there are extreme flaws in the best perceived ways to learn. Let’s dive right in. Should You Focus on One Skill at a Time? Bjork recommends “interleaving”. Instead of [...]

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Does Visualization Really Work? Here’s Evidence That It Does

Do you remember a scene in The Matrix when Neo opens his eyes and says “I know Kung Fu”? I bet you wished you could learn that fast. I know I did. I have wonderful news for you. You can become an expert in a similar way, just not as fast, by using the power of [...]

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Want to Be a Polymath Like da Vinci? Follow These Four Steps

Polymath Thinking Man

This is a guest post by Christopher Hutton of Liter8 Ideas. Polymath (noun) - A person of wide-ranging knowledge or learning. Polymaths aren’t born, they’re made. They are created by way of human patterns and practices that were copied from the years of Da Vinci and Michelangelo. And so, we have an opportunity to perform behaviors [...]

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10 Ways to Live Your Destiny

A huge part of becoming The Expert is claiming your personal piece of Destiny. Knowing that you are doing exactly what [...]

15 Probing Questions to Help You Bust Through Limiting Beliefs

You have great intentions, but you don’t follow through. You tell yourself you want change, but you’re too afraid to [...]

10 Uncommon Habits That Will Make You a Better Writer

If you’re the student that got highest marks in writing and composition in school, you learned to please a very [...]

3 Tips To Help You Create Great Looking Videos

Learning how to create great looking videos is a skill that will prove to be insanely useful during your life. Whether [...]

Adopt This Mindset On Your Road To Expertise

Golf is fantastic sport. You’re out in nature and socializing with friends and new acquaintances. You might even be using [...]

14 Tips For A Great Business Plan

Think of running a business like taking a trip. You have a great vision for where you want to take [...]