For the first step in improving my thinking, I am designing my own curriculum about things I want to learn. I think it is important to be proactive. If I don’t actively go out to try to learn stuff I’m just going to be an average thinker and not have extraordinary results.
Personal Skills
- How to learn fast and efficiently?
- Chinese language – HSK 6 – to be able to speak and understand everything completely fluently in Chinese
- Decision making – how to make optimum decisions.
- Getting clear
- What are timeless principles that apply to life?
- Time management
- How to get extraordinary returns
- Health and wellness
- Meditation, and energy management
- People
- Human relations
- How people learn
- What is the human operating system and how does it work?
- Personality and human differences
- Story telling
Business
Things that are useful in business goals.
- Business – deeply understanding business processes, how businesses work
- Incentives / hiring / motivating people
- Competitive strategy
- Case studies and challenging situations.
- Raising investment
- Chinese government policy
- Marketing – digital marketing
- Technology – how platforms work and how to build them, and how tech teams work.
- Compliance and legal
- Fame and how it works
- Being wealthy and how it works
- Stories of successful business people in the past – how they worked, what can we learn from them?
- Learn the stories of the top 100 richest people in the last 100 years, and also earlier than that.
General
- Biotechnology, genetic engineering, how does the human body work.
- Understanding cells and DNA
- Longevity
- Evolution
- Different disciplines & how they work, eg., science, legal, etc.,
- What is art? What makes art, art. What makes music, music?
- Artificial Intelligence
- Blockchain
- What happens if you combine concepts from different fields? Eg., biology + computers, how can we make biological machines? And what can we learn from biology about societies? Art and biology, or art and computers. Do studies of different mixes of different topics. Art and music? Making biological code or converting patterns in different fields into art, or music.
- How things work – like bridges, electricity, technology, computers, cameras, televisions, computer programming, physics, the universe.
- What are all the systems in biology, physics and what happens when they clash or have problems? What are checks and balances in systems? How are they evolving?
- Chemistry and how it works.
- Empires in history – how did societies work – what models and institutions did they use? How did they evolve? What are the underlying patterns behind them?
- What are the problems / blindspots in institutions and societies? How can they be resolved?
- Conflicts and power in history
- Can you predict what will happen in the future?
- What are the basic things everyone takes for granted but might not be true? Eg., the world is flat. There must be some things.
- What will society look like in the future?
- What are the things we don’t know we don’t know? The unknown unknowns.
Learning Plan
There is a lot to learn, and I am also running a company, so I need to be prepared to 1) spend a lot of time on this and also be 2) super efficient with my time. This is my learning plan for these topics.
- What are the central concepts of these topics.
- Identify material to learn about the concept – make a reading / content list
- Identify people to learn from about these topics
- Read these and make make notes / create content about these topics (writing and creating content and teaching others is a great way to learn)
- What are the debates and differing opinions? What do I think about it?
- What are new ideas that are coming in – I should build a flow of new ideas about these topics
Chinese HSK 6:
- I need about 150 hours of learning to reach HSK 6. I want to get this done as soon as possible so I can have more time and focus on other things. I will use as much my available free time to do this.
- Anki app to learn vocabulary – ankiweb.com
- Coursera HSK 6 – Peking University: https://www.coursera.org/learn/chinese-for-hsk-6/home/welcome
- 1 on 1 Teachers – italki.com
- Putting myself in more situations where I need to speak Chinese – eg., giving a speech in Chinese, or joining events where people don’t speak English
- Reading stories in Chinese
