Interview with Timothy Kenny, #1 Productivity Instructor on Udemy

I recently had the opportunity to interview Timothy Kenny, the #1 productivity instructor and creator of 79 courses on the online course marketplace Udemy. He is also the author of Accelerated Learning for Entrepreneurs and a speaker and coach.

You can find out more about Timothy on his website, including an overview of how his courses fit together.

In this 62-minute conversation we talk about:

His background and experience creating productivity courses


The problem with speed-reading and “accelerated learning”


Timothy’s path from live teaching to online courses


Why annotation is the bottleneck to information consumption, not reading speed


Visual mnemonics, memory palaces, and creating your own visual language


The business model for courses on Udemy (an online course marketplace with 30 million users)


How he uses courses as milestones and funding mechanisms for his personal learning process


Screenshare of his master planning organizational system in Google Drive


How he uses a “personal Dewey Decimal System” to organize his entire life and more than 2,000 active learning projects


His model of education as Intellectual Property Accumulation


The difference between life-long learning vs. cramming for a test


How to use planning to maximize motivation, time spent in flow, and what you’re interested in


Using templates to manage and optimize your calendar


Overview of his PAMeLa master planning system

Timothy has generously offered discounts for the two courses he believes would be the best fit for Forte Labs followers: on his Mastering Planning and Ultimate Accelerated Learning System courses.

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