
The Science of Rapid Skill Acquisition (Second Edition)
Advanced Methods to Learn, Remember, and Master New Skills and Information
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Peter Hollins
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Scientific methods to accelerate your learning to save time, beat competition, and get from point A to point B at the speed of light.
Learning is the key to bettering your circumstances and becoming the person you want to be. Skills, information, and abilities will never come to you - it’s up to you to seek them out, and this audiobook shows you how to do so in the most effective and efficient manner.
Applicable and actionable advice - not just theory and description. Work smarter, not harder.
The Science of Rapid Skill Acquisition is the definitive resource to get you where you want to be in terms of a new talent, skill, or ability. You may not realize it, but each day is a set of skills and tasks that we repeat. Each hobby and interest is also a set of skills and tasks. This audiobook focuses on what matters in processing information and being able to use it effectively to your advantage.
Rapid skill acquisition is how you get ahead in life professionally and personally.
Learn to rapidly train your brain and develop muscle memory. Understand the underlying psychology and biology.
Peter Hollins has studied psychology and peak human performance for more than a dozen years and is a best-selling author. He has worked with a multitude of individuals to unlock their potential and path toward success. His writing draws on his academic, coaching, and research experience.
- Tactics that top-one-percent performers and competitors use.
- Theories and principles of learning and what we are doing wrong.
- How your expectations matter more than your amount of talent.
- How to make a plan to strategically deconstruct and analyze information and skills.
- How to get better results while working less.
- Surprising methods to utilize the people and environment around you.
- The art of practicing, pivoting, and correcting yourself.
- How to stack your skills and become a unique resource.
- Take advantage of learning science to best absorb info.
Learning slowly and inefficiently will lead to your downfall - or even worse, being average.
We live in a fast-paced world. Will you fall behind or take the lead? The choice is yours - learning unlocks the doors to everything we want in life. Accelerating that process makes your life easier and more fulfilled.
Personally, your interests and hobbies will grow at a quick pace for more enjoyment. Professionally, your career opportunities will skyrocket because of your newfound proficiencies.
Start your journey rapidly by clicking the "Buy Now" button at the top of this page!
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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Marianne decided to finally find out if her elusive "perfect existence" - the one without debt, anxiety, or hangover Netflix marathons, the one where she healthily bounced around town and met the cashmere-sweater-wearing man of her dreams - really did lie in the pages of our best-known and acclaimed self-help books. She vowed to test a book a month for one year, following its advice to the letter, taking what she hoped would be the surest path to a flawless new her. But as the months passed, Marianne’s reality was turned upside down.
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Cute Story, good performance.
- By Ken on 10-10-19
By: Marianne Power
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Stop Talking, Start Doing
- A Kick in the Pants in Six Parts
- By: Richard Newton - contributor, Shaa Wasmund
- Narrated by: Richard Newton, Shaa Wasmund
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
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Have you got an itch to start your own business, go to the North Pole, retrain, lose weight, get promoted, learn to play the ukulele? Or do you just have a nagging sense that there must be more to life? If there is something you really want to do, but secretly fear you'll never do it, then you need this. This is your kick in the pants! To make your thing happen, you have to climb into the ring. You have to face your fears and move from talking to doing.
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The push
- By Rigoberto Tinajera on 06-03-24
By: Richard Newton - contributor, and others
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Secrets, Lies, and Consequences
- A Great Scholar's Hidden Past and His Protégé's Unsolved Murder
- By: Bruce Lincoln
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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In 1991, Ioan Culianu was on the precipice of a brilliant academic career. Culianu had fled his native Romania and established himself as a widely admired scholar at just forty-one years old. He was teaching at the University of Chicago Divinity School where he was seen as the heir apparent to his mentor, Mircea Eliade, a fellow Romanian expatriate and the founding father of the field of religious studies, who had died a few years earlier.
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Scholarship and politics
- By Anonymous User on 06-27-24
By: Bruce Lincoln
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Your Difference Is Your Strength
- A Guide to Accepting Yourself -- for Anyone Who Has Ever Felt Out of Place
- By: Kris Ferraro
- Narrated by: Kris Ferraro
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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Your Difference is Your Strength is a book for anyone and everyone who has ever felt out of place, misunderstood, or just...different. It’s the book for the kid who was too creative or too shy or too “weird” and who grew up into an adult who still isn’t quite sure where they fit in or if they even want to. It’s a book for you. In Your Difference is Your Strength, Kris Ferraro, author of Manifesting, invites the oddballs and underdogs of the world to stop hiding, minimizing, or disguising their differences and instead embrace them in a powerful new way.
By: Kris Ferraro
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The Leader in You
- By: Michael A. Crom, Stuart R. Levine, Dale Carnegie & Associates
- Narrated by: Stuart R. Levine
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
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For 80 years, Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc., has been training people to get the most out of what they put into their careers. The Leader in You builds on the fundamentals of human relationships to help you develop your own innate leadership skills. Learn basic techniques and find the leader in you to succeed.
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the agony and the agony
- By Zach on 06-16-03
By: Michael A. Crom, and others
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How to Grow Through What You Go Through
- Mental Maintenance for Modern Lives
- By: Jodie Cariss, Chance Marshall
- Narrated by: Jodie Cariss, Chance Marshall
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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In a world which can sometimes be challenging, frightening, overwhelming and complex, it's not surprising that sometimes we don't feel okay. This is what makes us human, but so often we are tempted to push those difficult feelings away or distract ourselves. We reach for our phone, we switch on Netflix, we over-work...but when do we stop and think about how we are really doing? Psychotherapists Jodie Cariss and Chance Marshall, founders of the revolutionary practice Self Space, are passionate about the importance of 'mental maintenance'.
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The ultimate collections of suggestions
- By Jesse Xu on 07-07-22
By: Jodie Cariss, and others
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Learn Like Einstein
- Memorize More, Read Faster, Focus Better, and Master Anything with Ease
- By: Peter Hollins
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
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Wish you could learn and memorize more in less time? Stay focused, quit being frustrated, and absorb info like a human sponge? If you're looking to (1) accelerate your learning abilities, (2) improve your memory instantly, (3) pick up new skills efficiently, and (4) fly through material and ace tests - the answers are right in front of you. Step-by-step methods and habits to train your brain. Learn Like Einstein is your scientifically proven field guide on using your brain to its fullest potential like Albert Einstein.
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Much more basic than I thought...
- By Philip M on 09-21-17
By: Peter Hollins
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Look
- How to Pay Attention in a Distracted World
- By: Christian Madsbjerg
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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Paying attention is a crucial human skill, yet many of us have forgotten how to listen carefully and observe intentionally. Deluged by social media and hobbled by the increasing social isolation it fosters, we need to rediscover the deeply human ways we connect with others. Christian Madsbjerg, a philosopher and entrepreneur, understands this dilemma and provides both practical insights and a range of tools for experiencing the world with greater richness and texture.
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To articulate not a normal understanding dialogue
- By cindy flynn on 12-30-24
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Unstoppable Teams
- The Four Essential Actions of High-Performance Leadership
- By: Alden Mills
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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Unstoppable Teams show managers at every level, at both large and small organizations, including private, public, and nonprofit, how to inspire, motivate, and lead the people around them.
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Insight from a real team leader.
- By Barry Moniak on 05-01-19
By: Alden Mills
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No One Succeeds Alone
- Learn Everything You Can from Everyone You Can
- By: Robert Reffkin, Benis Reffkin
- Narrated by: Robert Reffkin
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
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No one expected a dreadlocked fifteen-year-old who cared more about his DJ business than his homework to grow up to become one of the youngest-ever White House fellows, create multiple nonprofits, and found a multibillion-dollar company. But Robert Reffkin — raised by an Israeli immigrant single mother, disowned by his maternal grandparents for being Black, and abandoned by his father — has always defied the odds.
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Hey did you hear? He graduated Columbia in 2.5yrs
- By Amazon Customer on 07-29-21
By: Robert Reffkin, and others
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Betting on You
- How to Put Yourself First and (Finally) Take Control of Your Career
- By: Laurie Ruettimann
- Narrated by: Laurie Ruettimann
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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Betting on You is a game-changing guide for how to become your own leader and rapidly improve your work-life balance, complete with candid anecdotes and easy-to-follow steps, from veteran HR specialist and popular podcast host Laurie Ruettimann....
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Real, raw, unapologetic look at corporate culture
- By Danielle W. on 01-30-21
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Start Something That Matters
- By: Blake Mycoskie
- Narrated by: Blake Mycoskie
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
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What matters most to you? Should you focus on earning a living, pursuing your passions, or devoting yourself to the causes that inspire you? The surprising truth is that you don’t have to choose—and that you’ll find more success if you don’t. That’s the breakthrough message of the TOMS One for One movement. You don’t have to be rich to give back and you don’t have to retire to spend every day doing what you love. You can find profit, passion, and meaning all at once—right now.
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My eyes welled up several times!
- By Thundersinspring on 12-20-11
By: Blake Mycoskie
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- Hunter
- 12-29-19
Probably would wait for the 99cent sale
Wish the author intertwined more personal stories. Felt myself picking out some good ideas (like the ideas you must have realistic expectations when learning) but also felt myself shutting off the book and getting lost or irritated. Just an opinion.
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- Bailee and Titan:)
- 12-24-22
So helpful
I like how informative this was and can’t wait to try some of these skills myself. I will most likely listen to this again and again and will recommend it to everyone.
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- Henry Reimert
- 03-23-19
A great tutorial on learning
This is my second book by Peter Hollins. The first was Build a Better Brain. The Science of Rapid Skill Acquisition is similar in that it combines the research of the "why" with the instructions to complete the "how". The
Science of Rapid Skill Acquisition is much more aggressive in what you should and should not do where as the Build a Better Brain was more academic. I strongly believe that the skills and methods the author writes about should be taught in the middle school level, if not earlier. How to learn is much more important than what too learn.
Russell Newton is a fantastic narrator. His voice and diction are well suited for this type of material.
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- Weinischke
- 02-22-25
Short and sweet
Good and simple explanations. I enjoyed the stories and analogies. Definitely recommend for new readers on Skill Development.
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- Muhammed
- 03-13-19
Overall: I'm satisfied.
Well, as someone who is quite interested in personal development there wasn't something entirely new to me in this book, but still it was 4 hours well spend for me.
The information was legit, well-structured and told.
Narration was decent and I didn't felt lost anywhere.
It was good for me to refresh and reinforce my knowledge and I believe it would be a good book for people who haven't read much or made research on personal development before.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-27-20
Very good advice for anyone who's trying to learn
I'm currently trying to learn animation, but there's a lot of basic life habits that I need to change if I wanna learn efficiently and be any good. And this book really gave me some of the examples of what it takes to really learn and become better.
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- Kindle Customer
- 12-31-20
Read it 2x
This book has many great insights that may be dated but really effective. I like that not everyone will take this book seriously, I will.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-15-24
another classic
This author is fast becoming one of my favorites. Very little filler and packed with useful information as usual. Just get it. You will be glad you did.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-11-25
Tying your shoes the right way could lead you down the wrong path
The path of lease resistance does not equal the good path or the best path to learn. Learning to tie your shoes. Incorrectly is a great example of this. It helped me understand the point that before it would begin to try to learn a new skill, we must learn our strengths and weaknesses in regards to how we retain or obtain information. A simple and easy book highly recommend this read.
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- Argel Algura
- 04-06-20
One of the most VALUABLE SKILLS you'll ever learn!
This books breaks down learning how to learn, and how to do so quickly.
Having this skill has allowed me to make more money because of actions that make me stand out in the marketplace, as well as look cool in front of friends in social settings.
Overall, huge improvement in life through this book. Save yourself so much time and get to the good stuff of learning!
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