Polymath Quotes

“different books from Amazon to learn about a single topic. Instead, it’s more beneficial to choose one or two of the best books.”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“Growth is exponential, when your strategy is combinatorial.”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“to peruse them all. Attempts to read every book, blog post, or article on a single topic are bound to result in failure. This brings us to step 6, which is learning how to filter our resources. In this step, our primary goal is to prune our collection of resources to preserve only the best and avoid being overwhelmed by all the materials we’ve collected.”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“However, the priority is to maximize the number of good resources at your disposal.”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“books are likely to be the most efficient resources of them all. Try finding some appropriate books through Amazon, but consider other mediums like blogs, courses, etc.”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“Step four: The final step of my method is to take a break every page (or applicable chunk) to write a summary”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“Knowing what we want to learn, along with the learning plan we created, will be crucial to how we filter our resources. Doing so will also help you financially, since you won’t need to purchase ten”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“your chosen topic. You could solicit an expert’s advice regarding the area of your interest. You can listen to podcasts.”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“our concept of ourselves informs the experiences and knowledge we are willing to expose ourselves to.”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“Find how the information contributes to an overall narrative or story. See it as a living and breathing factor instead of a dry factoid.”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“notice that the content of your note has some sort of cause-and-effect relationship with the broader topic, write that here.”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“Step three: In the third line, the final blank line you left for yourself, state any connections you can find between the subject of that note and the broader topic you’re studying. If you”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“Use a highlighter or a different-colored pen or pencil to make this section stand out, as this is the actual information and message you’ve extracted”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“On the second line of your notes, you can also list any questions you have about the notes you took in step one. These are points of clarification, or gaps in your knowledge, that you feel you would need to form a complete picture. Before you move on to the next step of my method, mull over the directions this information might lead, and what that all means.”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“repetition itself also helps to cement the knowledge in your mind. The emphasis on repeating the knowledge in your own words, and in a fully coherent, complete sentence, requires you to process the information and chew on its meaning, thus entrenching it more deeply in your mind.”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“This isn’t applicable to every piece of information, but do it anyway. Why? While it can seem redundant, the”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“differentiates my method from other forms of notetaking. It starts on the second line for each note, where you left space, and you summarize what you wrote in step one in a complete sentence. When you do this, it’s important not to just repeat the initial note, even if you took your notes in complete sentences. Using your own words, converting the note to language that helps you understand the meaning is essential. Ideally, you are able to extract a deeper level of understanding. Really seek to make connections and find relationships within the information.”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“differentiates my method from other forms of notetaking. It starts on the second line for each note, where you left space, and you summarize what you wrote in step one in a complete sentence. When you do this, it’s important not to just repeat the initial note, even if you took your notes in complete sentences.”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“The first step of my method is to take notes as you ordinarily would. Copy down the information you need to know as you encounter the material, but leave two blank lines beneath each note you take. These lines give you space to process and analyze the information in the second and third steps.”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“The four steps are: (1) normal notetaking with as much detail as you can, (2) summarizing the information in your own words, clarifying the significance and noting questions, (3) connecting this particular piece of information to the lesson at large, and then (4) answering remaining questions and then summarizing each distinct page or section again.”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“It is imperative that you remember the final step as well, which is to teach. Teaching is crucial if you truly desire a deeper grasp of your subject matter, and if you really want to challenge your understanding to strengthen it further.”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“A mnemonic for this is LPLT—learn, play, learn, teach. Simply repeat this mantra for every single module in your learning outline.”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“Step 6: Filter, Filter, Filter There are usually a multiplicity of resources available on any given topic, but we simply don’t have the time”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“, you can also get a sense of which perspectives on your topic are less frequently included. These are likely less popular, and thus you can perhaps pay less attention to them.”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“, you can also get a sense of which perspectives on your topic are less frequently included.”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“or organizations that could be helpful at some point. I might seek them out to ask for their advice on how to approach learning a topic, or to use them as a resource if I struggle during my attempts to study the subject.”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“Following my search on Google, I’ll peruse Facebook and Twitter to locate some individual historians”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“Searching for the term yields a massive list of resources with several tutorials on the subject.”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“After Amazon, Google is our next database for finding resources”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact

“There are other ways to gather resources too.”
― Peter Hollins, Polymath: Master Multiple Disciplines, Learn New Skills, Think Flexibly, and Become Extraordinary Autodidact