You're already smart and can intuitively grasp the fundamental of what you're learning. The idea is from how much of a scam things sound when people sell you courses about skills you can learn fast but take a long amount of grind to get anywhere.
Everyone learns at their own pace. Even if you put deadlines, there's bound to be people that are not going to meet those deadlines due their unique circumstances.
And speed learning really depends on a person's interest in the subject, familiarity, available resources (including a mentor), feedbacks, innate cognitive abilities to process information, practical demonstrations, and testing what one learns while on the job.
Take for instance the claims of speed reading. You can probably make sense of the characters faster in your head as you read this post but the lag time to capture the wisdom of what the post is trying to say is real. And if there are no means to test knowledge acquired for feedback, how would you know you learned is enough?
I get the glamour of speed learning. Main character vibes, it gives people a confidence boost if they get the ropes on the job quickly, and etc. but learning faster doesn't necessarily mean getting better at what you learn. I say this from a quality assurance as I teach new interns rotating in psychiatry basic lessons they should've learned and retained in med school. They are quick to grasp the labels but couldn't even be bothered to recall the lesson once they see the real thing in front of them.
I know they finished the chapters quickly and do chatgpt to pass through the assignments. So now I should be expecting at least some proficiency from them, but the reality is much different. We can acquire knowledge faster than having the wisdom to use that knowledge.
So to anyone that parades how fast they learn things, that claim only has substance when they actually apply what they learned right and creating more knowledge from what they learned.
I learned from the textbooks first but now I created my own techniques to make my life easier on the job but this came from rereading the same sources and months of practice.
But I know there would be people that would fall for a 7 day or 30 day tutorial if they bought the digital product. There's a market for this and I guess I'm not the target audience.
Thanks for your time.
I'm pretty sure speed reading is just reading without subvocalising which is a lot faster. Unless your brain also operates better at whatever your talking speed is the processing time shouldn't be any different.
I'm feeling a bit old thinking I need to look up this "speed learning" thing but I'm also already a little bit nervous about it just from the name O_O
Ahh the fun of reteaching people things they should know. It's even more fun when they claim they never got taught that to begin with xD I had some students who claimed that [previous coach] never told them to [do it this way], unfortunately for them I know [previous coach] and know for sure that [previous coach] absolutely would have taught them to [do it this way] because that's how [it] gets done.
My students at least have the excuse of being literal children. I don't know what your interns' excuses are.
Unless the assignment was on how to effectively use chatgpt to
cheathelp with assignmentsthat you're obviously incapable of managing on your own thus negating any and all claims of "learning fast"that doesn't count.They forgot it and left it when the test papers were done. Now they just forget while having some responsibility making clinical decisions that may or may not decisively endanger patients on training.
I et mixed feelings about using AI for work. If I had this stuff in the past, I probably wouldn't have tried harder learning the stuff I do now that makes me not reliant on it to begin with. But that level of convenience is something. Much like the invention of the laundry machine, people would've spent less hours of their lives washing clothes. AI does the same miracle and more, the trade off is sacrificing the practice of critical thinking.
That level of convenience is only good if you don't INHERENTLY need to know and it's not going to have massive real life consequences for real life people. I had one maths teacher once upon a time who insisted that we had to do all maths by hand because "we're never going to be carrying a calculator in our pocket all the time" (that didn't age well). I had a much more forward thinking maths teacher later on who told us that we need to know how the maths works even if we use a calculator all the time because knowing how it works is the only way we'll be able to figure out what went wrong when something inevitably goes wrong.
And something always goes wrong.
There's some things like laundry where it doesn't matter (everyday wear is generally pretty tough and whatever, worse case scenario some badly dyed colour runs or some expensive item gets ruined because you didn't follow the instructions) and there's some things like health and medicine, architecture, construction, mining, urban development and planning, agriculture, education etc, probably even parts of my job where the lack of critical thinking and deep understanding could be catastrophic.