EP 211: Sam Thomas Davies - The Best Rituals and Routines for Learning
- Author
- Gary Bertwistle / Sam Thomas Davies
- Published
- Sun 04 Apr 2021
- Episode Link
- https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/themojosessions/Ep_211_mixdown-final.mp3
Learners are earners. Sam Thomas Davies has a simple mission - he strives to publish the best free book summaries on the planet. True to his mission, Sam has created a fabulous resource sharing his top 100 book summaries... coded by category. In this conversation I discuss with Sam his process for learning, discerning important take outs, recording and storing those ideas and then being able to create a system to retrieve and use his learnings. We outline the best rituals and routines to maximise your learning.
- "Reading helps you understand why you do what you do." What has it helped Sam work out?
- We discuss Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill which is one of Sam's favourite reads.
- Why... if you want to live a good life, you need to commit to lifelong learning?
- Is this a side hustle for Sam or has he managed to build a business out of it?
- Changing our identity to become a reader. How does Sam describe his identity when it comes to learning?
- Sam's view on quitting a book mid-way through?
- Was Sam a curious kid? Did he grow up in an environment of readers and questioners?
- Sam explains his system for reading and creating a summary?
- How does Sam arrange his learnings so he can access them easily?
- The rituals and routines for learning?
- Should there be a place for reading fiction vs non fiction?
- Does Sam have a system or process for going back through learnings over the passage of time to enhance his learning?
- The most profound learning Sam has taken from a book in the last 30 days?
