Member-only story

How To Learn New Knowledge And Skills Superfast With Total Living

Oscar Lagrosen
3 min readJun 10, 2022

--

The difference between where you are and where you want to be is a lack of knowledge and skillset.

So how do you learn the fastest?

Throughout my entire life, I have grappled with this question. At age 3 I learned to read and from that day explored various domains like geography, music, mathematics, biology, languages, psychology, and so forth, while amassing top grades from elementary school to bachelor’s. In my adult years, I continued with this obsession with learning, listening to audiobooks 5–6 hours a day while being adamant about advancing important skills and improving my life. After all, you must apply what you have learned or it is wasted.

Based on my 21-year exploration of our learning ability, plus books and courses like Ultralearning, Peak, Rapid learning, and Zero to Dangerous, here is what I have learned about learning:

Be totally present (focus and relax)

According to the fantastic online course Zero To Dangerous, you will learn new information and skills 5–30 times faster by being in the flow state. Indeed, modern neuroscience suggests we open up neuroplasticity (learning) by deliberate focus and higher energy levels. Only then does the wonderful combo of norepinephrine and two places of…

--

--

Oscar Lagrosen
Oscar Lagrosen

Written by Oscar Lagrosen

My articles are transcripts from my YouTube videos. Watch the original videos here: https://www.youtube.com/@oscar-lagrosen

No responses yet