Courses

Book a call

Workshops

Superlearning App

Contact us: Ask a question, report a bug or request a feature

Knowledge Base & FAQ

App Updates

Roadmap

Enroll

Get Newsletter

About

Information is growing exponentially. Knowledge, which lives inside people, is bounded. The challenge is updating that knowledge based on the latest relevant information.

Exponential information growth in medicine with Junaid Kalia MD

Medical knowledge is doubling every three months.

Information Growing Exponentially

For any note taking system, there's bad chaos and good chaos. Bad chaos is when we are overwhelmed by TODO's and lose sight of the bigger picture. Good chaos is the unavoidable messiness of ideas that brings inspiration.

Embracing Chaos with Nate Kadlac

My digital sabbath for processing learnings

How Playing Cricket Made Me a Better Learner

Using Micromastery to Supercharge Learning

20 years ago, it was said, if you had a tough childhood you're going to struggle for the rest of your life. Now we're slowly starting to realize we can rewire ourselves to become resilient through neuro-plasticity.

Emmy Sobieski on Neuroplasticity

Karaminder explains how our brain is like a computer with a big processor and tiny RAM.. but then we can use notes to augment our memory

How notes augment short term memory

To become fluent in a new language, we have to immerse ourselves in it.

Immersion

“How did you learn that?” is a question Andrew Barry often asks others, but in this episode he’ll be the one answering it! On effective teaching and learning methods, storytelling and a whole lot more

How did you learn that?

Copywriting is a one million dollar skill. Online entrepreneur Devesh shares how he started to learn copywriting.

How to learn the one million dollar skill of copywriting

Academic learning is formal and based on passing tests. Self-learning is messy, and the only test is real life.

academic vs self-learning

Polyglot Clara explains how self-learning is different from learning in school, and how you can overcome the overwhelm, confusion and uncertainty when starting to learn a language or other subject by yourself

Overcoming uncertainty in self-learning

Polyglot Clara speaks 7 languages. Here she shares her process, which you can also use to learn any language from zero.

How to learn a new language and actually getting confident enought to speak it

The #1 advice from online entrepreneur Devesh ($25k MRR while still in uni!)? Stop reading books and buying courses. Just start.

Stop reading books and buying courses. Just start.

Superlearner Devesh explains how building in public helped him build an audience, and grow his online business to $25k MRR while still in university

Building in public to grow your business

Superlearner Devesh built an online outreach agency to $25k MRR in 2020 while still in university, and started a profitable influencer marketing agency in 2021. Here he explains how he learned the necessary skills in a few months with Twitter and some online courses

How to learn the skills you need to make $20k per month with an online business.. in less than 6 months

Desc: Ultrealearning author Scott Young explains how new learnings are best remembered when combine with practice activity.

Practice-Centered View of Learning

Art Lapinsch worked for a venture builder in Silicon Valley, before quitting and building his own company, fully remote and without VC money. He is now sharing his learnings and working on an online course

How to build a remote company from idea to exit with Art Lapinsch

Ultrealearning author Scott Young explains why the brain is not a muscle, what's a better analogy, and whether you can train your brain to become smarter.

Brain Training doesn't work

Hasan Kubba wrote 'The Unfair Advantage'. In this podcast he explains how you can find your unfair advantage, and use it to earn a living online even if your audience is small.

Hasan Kubba, Author of The 2021 Business Book of The Year, on how to monetize your small audience

Scott Young learned to speak Chinese in 3 months, and passed MIT Computer Science curriculum in 12 months. He then wrote a book called Ultralearning with 9 principles for learning any skill fast.

Ultralearning author Scott Young on how to learn anything fast (even if you're no genius)

PKM and community expert Ramses describes his process to keep continuously learning effectively in your job as a knowledge worker

Learning Job Skills effectively

PKM and community expert Ramses Oudt explains how he got into the note taking space and how he used it to scale his business.

Taking note taking to the next level

4x entrepreneur and online creator Cam Houser predicts ways that will help us remember knowledge that matters, and the obstacles web3 has to overcome to allow massive distributed collaboration

3 predictions by Cam Houser on web3 and knowledge management tools

4x entrepreneur and online course creator Cam Houser explains the four C's you have to through to go from Crickets to people Caring about your Course

From Crickets to people Caring about your Course

Online facilitor René Nauheimer shares how learning a second language makes it easier to learn a third, and a fourth. And a secret that makes you sound like a native speaker!

Multi language learning

4x entrepreneur Cam Houser failed twice before building a successful company on the third attempt.

Extreme learning. Just do it. Fail. Fail better. Fail forward.

Online facilitator and polyglot René Nauheimer on how to set up a creative group process for success, and how the same techniques help with learning multiple languages

The creative process and language learning

Interviewing PKM and community expert Ramses Oudt!

Ramses Oudt on learning new skills quickly

Professional learner Ramses Oudt explains why learning is inherently a messy process, which is why structures and consistent reflection need to always be in place to get the most out of learning.

Learning is messy

Public Speaking can also be learned through active listening that is driven by our curiosity engine.

Curiosity and active listening

One of the best ways to accelerate learning is through the dual power of learning, using both the creative side and analytical side, as Elliot Lum explains, learning is not just rational, it's emotional. We can use technology wisely to deepen connections without becoming dependent upon it.

Using technology to deepen connections

The key to learning people and emotional intelligence is empathy. The easiest way to build empathy according to Karaminder is by becoming very good at listening first.

How to learn "people"

To learn something new, Robbie Crabtree looks for people who are better or smarter than he is. Learning from people who are further ahead and going down rabbit holes is the best way to find out what works and what doesn't.. but it takes time!

Learning from the best

Performative speaker Robbie Crabtree explains how he chunks things into blocks, resolves open loops, and adds musical notes to make his speech stick to his mind.

How to remember your speeches

It's been a while since our last newsletter! We got some plans for our superlearner blog and hope to have some more news soon!

Learn from everyone you meet

To become a great speaker, you have to know your audience and speak their language. 

How to speak the language of your audience

The highest leverage action you can take to become a better speaker, creator and teacher? Create a storybank!

Building a storybank

From speaking in courtrooms to becoming one of the world's most recognized performative speakers, Robbie Crabtree uses knowledge from a wide array of disciplines to deliver impactful speeches

From winning cases to winning audiences

Learning by trial and error was an essential part of the journey for Andrew Barry, even as he was learning about learning design and learning outcomes.

Learning outcomes

Teacher and online creator Ryan Chadha talks about the magic that happens when we teach our brain to work as a learner while forcing ourselves to think as a teacher

Learning by teaching

Tired of always forgetting things? Brian Groat shares his techniques on using imagery and repetition to remembering.

The easiest way to remember

Ryan explains why hard things rule (hint: it's the hard thing rule!), while Dom explains why old things rule as well!

Hard things rule!

If a word or concept is re-used and remixed by culture, that's a sign that it's an important concept. Dan Collison describes how he uses cultural patterns and ethymology for learning and filtering.

Learning from culture and history

History offers valuable lessons on the problems we face now. Dan Collison tells us about naivity as a superpower and how to beat the Minotaur

Learning from history

To become a better public speaker, Emmy Sobieski used ultra learning principles to find her authentic voice.

How Emmy applied the principles of ultra learning and ultra speaking

To achieve an ambitious goal, Jesse Desjardings has learned the most important question to ask is Who, not How. Getting the right people onboard is more important than anything else.

Who not How

Brian Groat teaches us how to use memory palaces in real life and recall all the details of people you meet.

How to remember everything about a person you meet

In today's newsletter, Ryan writes about how the bad reputation of errors actually harms learning, and Dom writes about what he learned from a memory athlete!

Dare to make mistakes!

Joey Doughty about habits, routine building, and how to modify an existing habit rather than breaking a bad habit.

The four-part loop of building habits

As Jesse found out when building his vision it was getting the right people excited that made all the difference. 

Who Not How

Dom interviewed 16 superlearners on how they got their skills, while Ryan found an excuse to spend his days napping away 

Lessons from 16 Superlearners

Psypreneur performance coach Joey Doughty takes us on his learning journey on how he cleverly combines psychology with entrepreneurship in his profession and business.

The psychology of online entrepreneurship

Memory athlete Brian Groat lets us in on the different memory techniques to harness the power of your brain.

Building Memory Palaces

Whether you're writing copy or teaching online courses, one key thing Julia Saxena has learned is that it's never about you! Instead, make your audience the heroes!

The audience is the hero

In this episode, Julia looks back on her copywriting journey and becoming an expert in online courses.

The importance of copywriting for online teaching

Zoom fatigue is a big problem when teaching online. Andrew Barry explains how it can be overcome by using async learning and breakout rooms.

Avoiding Zoom fatigue in online teaching

The best way to learn anything is by creating. It forces you to structure your ideas well - full time online creator Daniel Canosa

Learning by creating

In this interview with Daniel Canosa, we learn more about knowledge management and his learning journey becoming a full time online creator.

The Online Creator Journey with Daniel Canosa

“Shadowing” is a technique that empowers people to learn and adapt to a changing environment. The idea is incredibly simple, but sadly most people have never heard of it and therefore can't use it intentionally.

Shadowing

Anxiety is learning gone awry. But it can be overcome by unlearning and relearning. We also talk about staying motivated by following your curiosity, about self-compassion, paralysis by analysis and immersion.

Learning, unlearning and anxiety with Nick Wignall

Anxiety is learning gone awry. But it can be overcome by unlearning and relearning.

Anxiety is learning gone awry

It's been slightly longer than usual since the last newsletter! Ryan was busy studying for exams, while Dom was busy with... holiday!
But now we're back, we'll be talking about sleep and shadows!

Sleep and shadows 👻

For any note-taking system, there's bad chaos and good chaos.

Embracing chaos

Startups are a founder's creative solution to a problem they have found in the marketplace.

The entrepreneur as an artist

John Bates learnt from his own experience how to speak like a leader and tell a convincing story

Never tell a story without a point, and never make a point without a story

We have multiple personalities inside us, which we can access to gain different perspectives, learn and get creative.
John Pinckard helps entrepreneurs access their personalities to unlock creativity. Startups are highly creative, though often not seen as such.

Learning from your different personalities with John Pinckard

Never tell a story without a point, and never make a point without a story.
All the logic in the world won't convince anybody if you can't make an emotional connection, and you can make that connection with a story.

John Bates learnt from his own experience how to speak like a leader and tell a convincing story.

Telling Your Story with John Bates

Momentum however is real, and you can create systems that build momentum and then ride it out.

Use Momentum Not Motivation

Motivation is a lie, a fleeting emotion. Momentum however is real, and you can create systems that build momentum and then ride it out. Putting on your gym shoes may create the momentum to go for a run. With Corey Wilks

Momentum beats motivation - with Corey Wilks

Why you've been summarizing the wrong way your whole life

To study vocab, don't memorize translations! Instead, create a vivid mnemonic story around each word, encoding its pronunciation, its spelling and its meaning. Make the story personal!

How I learned 5 languages without a single course

Education is how we're supposed to learn. But it doesn't teach us the most important skill: how to learn.

The secret about learning that education doesn't teach us

Rather than taking notes, we can make ideas both MEMORABLE and ACTIONABLE by storing them into our brain directly.

Want actionable insights? Stop taking notes

How learning Mandarin made me a Superlearner

Dom's Mandarin Learning Journey

Elliot Lum of the Association of National Advertisers brings people from competing companies together in learning pods.

Peer to peer learning rather than sage on stage

Technology can only help people learn better if it complements the emotional, social and community aspect of learning. 

Learning is highly emotional

I talk with James Stuber about how he got through his step when learning Japanese and went on to become fluent.

How to master a new language

We also talk about EQ and empathy, idea generation, finding your purpose, how habits beat goals, and about storytelling.

Understanding the power of your super brain

He He built a digital outreach agency over the past year which now generates $20k per month.

Learning by doing

Chances are, knowledge in your field increases faster than you can possibly keep up with.

Superlearning professionals start with INTENTION

To intentionally learn from books and articles (and to avoid the above embarrassment), I've developed a process to remember what I read. 

How I remember what I read

We also talk about how Ryan discovered a repeatable process to succesfully learn anything fast.

Superpower of focus in the internet age

We talk about breaking knowledge down into its fundamental blocks, making evergreen notes in a Zettelkasten and a way to get into your flow state instantly.

Supercharge your learning today.