This video lesson is about how to learn skillfully: the science of study.

If you duplicate and apply these methods in your study of Skillful Living, you will get much more out of the materials.

Most schooling deliberately teaches you the wrong way to learn. First, you should not approach a subject because someone else is making you study it you should approach it because you want to learn it and put it into practical use in your life in other words you should learn to acquire skills.

The first necessary skill in the art of Skillful Living is how to learn skillfully.

Presentation Design

The presentation design in an informational course is intended to leave you informed. The presentation design in this course is intended to open up a new world of experience for you: the experience of Skillful Living and specifically, the skill of being able to teach yourself any skill you desire. We use a simple form of presentation to accomplish this.

We have developed precise language for the materials that experience and testing show we must make available to deliver our promise to you. Quite a bit of thought and testing has gone into the language: the semantics or the way things are stated.

On most of the slides, we will read the slide aloud while you read those same words silently to yourself. Please read the slides to yourself at the same time you are listening to them being read. From time to time, we will pause to comment on what has been read, demonstrate a technique, or have a discussion with you.

At any time, if you do not understand a word that is used or the meaning of what is read is not clear for you, please stop the video and look up the term in a good dictionary. If you have a comment or question about what has been read, please post it in the comments.