An inefficient reader reads superficially, without making any notes, without connecting any dots (fast) & does so by reading at a painfully slow pace such that he gets lost in the details, misses the context, takes months to finish it or even leaves it incomplete (slow).
This leaves him disheartened. He wants to read, but his inefficiency in reading comes in his way. He quickly forms an opinion that he can't read...and that reading is done by some super intelligent sons of greater God!
An efficient reader, as I prescribe, does the exact opposite of what the inefficient one does. He reads with a purpose, makes notes, connects the dots (slow) & does so by reading at a fast pace such that he gets the central idea, finish the book in a matter of days, if not hours.
In this article, I have expounded on my idea of efficient reading. It enables you to imbibe the knowledge from a book and do that over & over very effectively!
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You are good & improving, if the subconscious you is good & improving. That's why it should be a persistent endeavour of the Conscious You to persistently learn and pass on the wisdom to the Subconscious You.
Your learning stays in the sub conscious and on most occasions, helps you with different aspects of life - relationships, success, investing etc.
The super achievers in any field talks about the behavioural/subconscious powers.
At times, the Conscious You pass on the wrong lessons. Or even if the lessons were right in some context, they are incongruous in some other contexts. In such times, the subconscious minds creates some obstacles that prevents you from achieving success you wish for.
Performance is a complex function of ability and psychology.
Ability is cumulative - it adds on prior base like your belly fat 🥳
It is like a Fixed Deposit....keeps accumulating.
Psychology is cyclical. It meanders from low (lower than your ability justifies/underconfidence) to high (higher than your ability justifies/overconfidence)
Positive feedback or performance boosts your morale. This raises your future performances, leading to more success. Till you reach a stage of overconfidence in your abilities and meet failure.
Learning new skills or improving existing skill levels involves going through a stage of Liminality - you're either here nor there!
This stage is very unsettling. There are several behavioural resistances - questioning the very necessity of doing that, or question the methods.
Our brain is very capable, much more than we can imagine. It's just that the sub conscious part of the brain is tuned to be metabolically efficient...and it achieves the efficiency by using shortcuts.
Here's a great characteristic of the brain:
While it creates acute resistance to change or new pattern, but if it left with no choice, it moves to the outer orbit. It expands its abilities and it does that more and faster than you expect.
A complex combination (Sum is bigger than the parts) of underlying fundamentals and market expectations of fundamentals, keep manifesting in trends.
These trends unfold in various time frames.
In each of these time frames, excesses get built as the trends overrun their course...correction or reversion to mean ensues.
1) This pattern repeats itself again and again. 2) There are patterns playing with larger patterns. This is the multi layered fractal nature of this behaviour. There could be a trend in a higher time frame, but a correction in lower, or vice versa.
Leverage & Buffett:
In the investor circle, one of the key criteria for scouting a good company is "zero debt". And why not, after all over leverage is a leading cause of corporate ruin.
Let's step back and analyse this...
Right since the discovery of the wheel to all the gadgets we use today, mankind has used leverage. Financial leverage is just a subset of this.
A leverage is a force multiplier that gives either: 1) efficiency, by enhancing the output or, 2) convenience, by reducing the toil
Layer 1 - Losing fat by "burning calories" is a fallacy.
A cup of ice cream gives you more calories that a few days of morning walk can't burn!
You lose fat at the entry gate, not the exit window - by calorie restriction, not burning.
Layer 2 - Calorie restriction by restricting your diet size is again a fallacy. Your physiology has evolved by billions of iterations, into a insatiable eating machines. We're designed to eat as much as we can. Curbing the natural, atavistic instincts is undesirable.
Calorie restriction is achieved by two thing - 1) Cutting the eating window, through Intermittent Fasting. Rather than restricting meal size, restrict the hours when you encounter food. Eat as much as you can, during that window only.