Knowledge Accelerator

It was 2012 and I just finished binge-watching two seasons of Mad Men. I remember wandering outside in the fields behind my apartment afterwards. I was in a daze. I felt depressed. I was upset with what I had just done to my mind.

"Why did I just mind f*** myself?"

(Nick in his 30's would never use such language.)

But I said it, and I said it like a broken record as I mentally staggered around those empty fields.

Then I stumbled upon the most unlikely thing. Something I had never come across before. A meditation maze.

Have you ever walked through one of these?

It takes time to get to the center. Sure, you could just clomp right over to it, but you'd miss the point: to meditate—just by walking—without having to care about traffic or stop signs, or anything. You just move through the maze and let your mind take care of itself.

And it will.

I think I went back and forth through three or four times that day, because each time I felt more and more of the haze dissipate. My mind was my own again. That experience gave me an acute understanding of the way over-consuming wastes our minds.

My binge-watching directly lowered my Knowledge Power.

I hated that feeling in 2012, and I still hate it today. And I know I'm not alone. In fact, millions more are even more controlled by their devices—mindlessly consuming and extinguishing the flame of their own minds.

Do you ever stop for a second…and get angry at having your attention hijacked?

I got mad as hell at losing my most valuable resource: my mind!

It’s time we embody the primal shout from Rage Against the Machine and “take the power back!”

Here's what having more Knowledge Power means to you:

Read that list again.

Knowledge, done right, is about feeling empowered.

In the end, that’s what the Knowledge Accelerator™ delivers:

…you’ll feel healthier of mind

…you’ll become wealthier of mind

The biggest mistake thinkers make? Consuming so much they drown out their own thoughts. They turn into parrots that regurgitate someone else’s regurgitations and then wonder why no one is listening.

The online algorithm won. It stole our attention. We passively consume more information than ever in human history. We've all been there. It happens. But you have a way to take the power back. And no; it's not more doomscrolling and hollow highlighting!

It's notemaking.
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Notemaking, according to ChatGPT, is "the process of actively synthesizing information by adding personal insights, questions, and connections, thereby fostering deeper understanding and creative thinking."

I prefer to focus on the result: Insights in minutes that last a lifetime.

Notemaking is how we re-strengthen our thinking muscles.

Just like when King Theoden broke through the spell of Wormtongue that kept him docile—we too are regaining a sense of what we’re capable of!

Participants in the LYT Workshop experience this. Many of them feel a resurgence in their ability to think effectively—they feel their latent thinking powers reawakening after a long slumber.

That’s pretty wild, because the core promise of the LYT Workshop is to “build your custom knowledge system”. It’s not to “think better”.

But “better thinking” is the incredible side effect.