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Lessons - How To Master Your Life | Dr. John Demartini - Human Behavior Expert, Author & Speaker · Success Story with Scott Clary

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In this episode, we discuss mastering knowledge across various fields,
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the importance of curiosity and how to absorb, retain, and apply information efficiently.
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You'll discover strategies for expanding your learning potential,
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building a broad foundation of knowledge and connecting insights from different disciplines
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for a deeper understanding.
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Tell us about your learning process and how you go about becoming an expert in so many
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different fields that have some similarities but ultimately are not in the same lane,
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because I think that's what's the most impressive thing when I look at your body of work.
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Well, thank you for seeing that. When I was 18 years old,
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I had a number of objectives that I went out for.
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And a gentleman when I was 17 mentioned the word universal laws,
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and that sounded kind of cool.
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And at age, age, and I watched David Cairdine on Kung Fu,
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and he talked about his so-called master that I thought, wow, I'd like to be a master.
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And those two things stuck in my mind, I also was told by the gentleman when I was 17
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about waking up genius. So I had a dream at 17 and then again at 18,
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to want to master my life and to study universal laws.
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So I went in the dictionary and I said, what's a universal law?
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And that led me to natural laws, my Aristotle, that led me to the study of the low ghosts,
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which was the study of reason in the universe.
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And then I realized that that was the source of all theologies you could study.
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So it could be any discipline that an individual could study was under that category.
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And so what I went did, I went through the dictionary,
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and it's like it'd be, and look for every knowledge.
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Maybe a discipline a person could study.
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Because I figured if I was going to build a body of knowledge,
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I would want to have a foundation of the most consistent principles that were found throughout
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the different disciplines.
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So I'm enlist of all the different disciplines andologies you could study.
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I still have that list on my computer today.
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And I made a commitment to read a hundred books in each one.
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So I just say, I'm going to study these things and I'm going to read, you know,
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I'm going to try to go to the original thinker who is the founder of that discipline.
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So I want to study, you know, magnetism, I've studied Gilbert.
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If I want to study a different field, I go to the founder of that field.
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As strong, I mean, I mean, I'm going to go back to Naxeman, the Greek philosopher, for instance.
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And I started to vow, or as much information, because I figured that an average PhD
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would get about, read about a hundred books.
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And if you start stacking up PhDs, you'd end up with a hundred books in each field and they'd
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overlap after a while. There's a lot of duplication.
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So that was the dream.
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I want to do it because I want to have a body knowledge that was solid.
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And I wanted to have polymathic understanding.
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I want to be an auto didactic polymath.
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And that really was inspired by Renata Carr when he was reading the European
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philosophers in the Western world.
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There was a textbook that had any mention that he wanted to be a man of letters and he wanted to
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have a universal knowledge and stuff.
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As cyclopedias, say, some people called him.
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And I made a commitment to write an encyclopedia.
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The idea I did wrote an encyclopedia with another fellow that took 20 years to do.
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And so I decided I was going to do that and work 30 pages a day on this
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massive piece of work that I wanted just so I could have a better knowledge.
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I started reading eight complete sets of encyclopedias from color to cover to try to get
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a better understanding of this.
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But I want to find the most universal loss to build a body of knowledge with.
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That was the original objective.
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And so now after 30,662 books, I keep records of.
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I have been doing that and people go, well, that's insane.
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Why would you want to do that?
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You know, one specialty is, you know, sufficient.
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And I was told all the way through this and, you know, you got a special.
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I just got a special.
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I said, well, okay.
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But if I specialize and I work a hundred times more than the other person,
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I can do a hundred of those.
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So when I was in the health professional, I studied medicine.
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I studied dentistry.
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I studied chiropractic.
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I studied osteopathy.
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I studied astronomy.
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I studied cancer and oncology.
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I did lectures on ecology.
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I did lectures on this.
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I actually spoke to dentists and did conferences for dentists all the way up
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to the American Dill Association when I was 24.
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And I spoke at Rice University and University Houston and astronomy.
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And I spoke on, on ecology to MD Anderson hospital conferences.
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And people thought, this is a freak.
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This is a weird character book.
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He's got something to say.
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And so this has been my dream.
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And I kept asking it, how do I more effectively
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officially retain information and absorb information?
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And I experiment with all different types of things,
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you know, from speed reading and photo reading and all kind of things
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to try to accelerate it.
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And I averaged in my 20s around four to seven books a day on average,
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about 19 to 20, 25 books a week.
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And I started accumulating this, this spotted knowledge.
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And I wanted to find, I linked everything I studied
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to the evolution of given consciousness,
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the maximized human awareness of potential.
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And so if I was studying mineralogy under geology, I studied geology.
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And then I would go into the minerals.
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And I'd look at the microorganisms that are involved
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in the transformation of minerals.
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I looked at the minerals that's keylators inside the enzymes
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inside the physiology to look at the metabolic pathways.
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And so people go, why are you studying geology?
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I said, because your energy is going to be based
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on mitochondria, which are bacteria.
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And many of them originate as lithophiles
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and extremophiles.
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And so I want to know how they metabolized
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in one of the mechanisms of metabolism
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to burn a maximized energy.
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So studying that field was part of one common thing.
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Maximizing evolution, human consciousness,
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and maximizing awareness potential
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and helping people master their lives
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and evolving consciousness.
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And so anything, whether I'm studying astronomy,
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now I'm studying the origins,
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nuclear synthesis from the Big Bang nuclear synthesis
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to stellar nuclear synthesis to supernova nuclear synthesis
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to create atoms that are involved in building the body
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and studying physiology of how those things work
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and study.
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So I broke the body down.
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I took gross anatomy down
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until I could take it to the quantum level.
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And I'm writing right now, it takes book on physics.
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Now I'm about to present in November.
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So I'm constantly trying to take it from the macroms
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of the microhobe and in between
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to study the most universal laws.
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I could build a body knowledge
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that I could, when I deliver something,
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I can rely on it.
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So that's been my dream since I was 17-18.
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I'm just as inspired 50 years later
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that today, as I was then,
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to expand my body and knowledge.
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And so people think I'm kind of a weirdo.
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My girlfriend calls me a freak.
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I just got introduced.
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I spoke at a lockdown university
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from the lady who heads up to Google
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and I'm a museum the other day.
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I'm one of the guest speakers.
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A keynote speaker's name.
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The introduce means you're about to listen to a freak.
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Listen, I think that's not a good intro.
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First, not a good intro.
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But I appreciate that what you've done is incredible
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and probably uncomfortable for a lot of people too.
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To even look at, right?
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That's not a comfortable path to accumulate knowledge
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for a lot of people that say, well, listen,
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I want to become a specialist in my field.
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I don't even read like 100 books
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in that particular topic, let alone 30 plus thousand.
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So it is, but it just goes to show you
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that there is no necessity.
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Well, maybe there are better ways to assimilate knowledge
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and maybe you've found tricks to be able to go into a book
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and get the most possible out of it
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in the shortest period of time.
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But I mean, ultimately, there are no quick hacks
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to level up your intelligence, really.
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I mean, it's been 60, whatever, 50 years
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of reading, researching, finding new bodies
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of work to go into, right?
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Yes, I just never ending.
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I love it.
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You know, something happened to me when I was 24.
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Well, when I was 23, I started into professional college.
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And the very first day, there was a neurology class.
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And there was a, there's a mention of Pennfield's homunculus,
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which is a little image of a creature
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that shows the different percentages of distribution
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of neurons to the representing of the different parts
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of the brain and the centering motor expression.
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And when I thought I saw the,
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the stomatic-nathic system of the jaw
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was the most highly represented part of the brain.
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And I thought, well, if I'm going to specialize in neurology
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and joints and the body and stuff
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with the pedics and things, I'm going to study that.
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So I went to the library, and I got everything
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on the stomatic-nathic system, which is a TMJ,
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Timperman, in the original.
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And it was very little.
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And so I went over to the University of Texas,
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dental school, and I went to their library
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and started to borrow every book that was there.
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And I went to the dean, and I said,
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if I was to specialize in TMJ,
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what would, what would be in my curriculum
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and what books and what everything I would do?
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He said, well, that's all listed down in the bookstore.
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Go find it and stuff.
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He went much help, but so I then devoured it.
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And I read like 400 books on that field.
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And I got the opportunity to lecture at a little
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dental study group after meeting this guy at a party.
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He said, well, don't you come and speak
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about what you know on this thing?
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And at the end of it, they said, well, that was three hours
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of the, you know, Cape Dive.
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You got a more, and I said, I got plenty.
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And in their TMJ was kind of a new field at the time.
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There was only Harold Gale, Ben Nathan Shore,
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and John Baldwin and a few other people
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that were leading the field.
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And I got to meet all these guys.
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I mean, I got to break bread with these guys.
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And all of a sudden, he goes, you know,
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we'd like to have become back.
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And so for 10 months, every single week,
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I was doing a presentation of these dentist.
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And one of them said, we got a Southwest Cranium
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and other society would like you to speak to.
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Can you come and present there?
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And I said, yeah.
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So I got this opportunity.
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And then after one guy came from there,
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he says, I got the Tri-County Dental Association conference.
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We'd like to have a guest speaker.
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Great.
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I mean, I'm 24 years old.
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I'm not even a doctor yet.
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But I'm, I'm hanging it.
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I'm going for it, you know, and I love it.
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And then I was at this conference,
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the Tri-County Association.
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And I was supposed to speak for 30 minutes right after lunch.
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And they got up and introduced and said,
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well, we got this young man.
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He's not a doctor and they like that.
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He's not a dentist and everything else.
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But he's going to do a special presentation.
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And people go, what what?
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What the hell is this guy?
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And people started to walk out.
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I had like a mass exodus of people going,
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why were we going to sit,
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we were going to go out and just have some coffee.
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This is ridiculous.
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And the guy gets backed up there and he introduces me again.
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He says, hold on a minute.
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My introduction wasn't sufficient.
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You know, Harold Gelb, as you know,
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at a New York and Nathan Shore, as you know,
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is written textbook on the field.
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And John Baldwin right here in Houston,
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has said they learn more from this young characters
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than they've learned from their professors.
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And they said they were the one to recommend him.
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And so really?
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So they all stood by the door.
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That's all these guys are standing by the door
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with their teams.
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And I started speaking.
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And they started to come back and sit down after a while
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because I, you know, I started talking about this,
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this the brain started to be in anything.
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And then all of a sudden,
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that three of the speakers for the afternoon
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gave up their time and let me speak for four hours.
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I got four hour presentation.
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Wow, here's what was cool.
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There's the best part.
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During the presentation,
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there's a real heckling guy,
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real skeptic guy.
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And it just really did was upset that,
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you know, how dare you let a guy
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that's not a doctor in our field, be a speaker.
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And he threw out a challenging question.
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And how the blue,
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mysteriously,
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a photographic image of Gray's anatomy,
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the answer that I get to give him an answer,
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I saw this page.
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And I started to share it and read the page,
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as he'd been sitting in front of my eyes.
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I started reading on this page,
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the top of the thing under this caption,
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I started reading this thing.
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And 75, I guess,
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pieces of paper from all the different attendees,
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they started throwing paper at this guy
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and said, let the guy speak with pass land.
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And when I did that, I went,
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I didn't know I knew that.
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And I then learned something really cool about speed reading.
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There's an explicit memory and an implicit memory
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and an explicit memory is what you remember what you read.
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And there's an implicit stuff you went into your brain,
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and you didn't remember it.
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But once somebody asked you a question
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that's highly informative and important,
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it comes out.
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And I learned a whole other thing about learning
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that I didn't know before,
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that I hadn't read anywhere,
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that every human being has a set of priorities,
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a set of values on their life.
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And whatever's highest on their values
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and intrinsic value,
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whatever's low is,
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it becomes more extrinsic.
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The things that are lower,
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you need motivation to get you to do,
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but the things highest is
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spontaneously inspired to do it.
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Once you make a link between the knowledge
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you've absorbed through your senses
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and that highest value,
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it comes to the conscious,
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it goes from implicit to explicit.
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And I didn't know I knew things.
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So then, after that, I said,
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okay, I don't need to remember
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while I'm reading,
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I just need to get my eyes exposed to the page.
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And then when I need it,
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and it's important to me,
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it'll come to the surface.
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And that was a big turning point
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at age 24 on, on accelerating.
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So I started reading one day,
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I made 11,000 pages of material
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just to find out what I was capable of doing.
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And then I used to do presentations
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or nothing but Q&A
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just to find out, ask questions.
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I had no idea what I was going to get involved in.
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I'd push myself to go onto conferences
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and talk some things
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that I hadn't really read about it,
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but you know,
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didn't know what I knew.
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Boom, all this information would come out
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when I needed it.
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And that was a major breakthrough
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and I developed a way of helping people
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absorb information, retain information, apply it,
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and use it creatively.
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And I started teaching kids this
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and you know, other people,
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I've gone into colleges and universities,
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high schools,
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and stuff to help people absorb information.
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So that was really a turning point at age 24.
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So I didn't have any anxiety about learning
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and didn't really worried about it
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as people go,
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why are you doing it?
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I said, because I want to know.
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I'm like the man who wants to know.
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That's all I just love learning.
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And whether I get to use it immediately
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or not, I know it's there when I need it.