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Ass-Kicking Email – 3 Ways to Link Ideas

Hey,

In this email:

1. I discuss the 5-Year Old Method
2. 3 Ways to Link Ideas, and Understand More
3. Registration is Re-opening

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The 5-Year Old Method is one of the guides in MONTH 3 of your
program, accessible under CONTENT:

https://scotthyoung.com/members/?page_id=42

This is one of the most popular tactics I’ve ever published in the
guide. Despite its simplicity it has enormous power.

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3 Ways to Link Ideas

In Learn More, Study Less, I described three overall strategies for
linking. I think they are important to look at, since many people
get bogged down in the specifics. They attempt to create fancy
metaphors and visceralizations, when they could understand the
material just as well employing simpler linking strategies that take
less time.

The 3 linking methods are:

-Vertical
-Lateral
-Depth

How to Create Vertical Links

A vertical link is simply connecting a current idea with a related
idea within the topic. So, if you’re learning calculus, an obvious
place to start understanding integrals is to make connections
between derivatives.

Is that exciting and creative? Not terribly.

However, those are usually the easiest connections to make and they
still count. You can still use them to form the start of an
understanding of a new topic.

How to Create Lateral Links

Lateral links are the sexier, but slightly more difficult kind of
links I often describe with techniques like metaphors and
visceralizations.

The goal with a lateral link is to create a relationship between
ideas that aren’t normally related. So if you’re learning
calculus, once again, this could be comparing your integral to an
odometer on your car.

Lateral links aren’t necessarily better than a lot of vertical
links, so if you can’t think of any, that doesn’t mean you aren’t
learning holistically.

Usually these types of connections are way easier to make after
you’ve already spent some time thinking about all the vertical,
unsexy ways ideas are related within a field.

How to Create Deep Links

Deep links are a completely different strategy for linking ideas.
This is where you link ideas by going within an idea and seeing
its details more clearly.

It’s not necessarily a more difficult strategy, but it is such an
important one, that I’m saving it for the 2nd implementation guide
for MONTH 3, so you can download that as well!