I built a six-figure education company doing these four things: * Learn and practice effective non-fiction reading techniques: http://personalmba.com/10-days-t

I built a six-figure education company doing these four things: * Learn and practice effective non-fiction reading techniques: http://personalmba.com/10-days-to-faster-reading/ http://personalmba.com/10-days-to-faster-reading/. Once you've got it down, reading a book takes 10-30 minutes with very good comprehension. * Synoptic reading: read 5-10 books about the same subject from different authors in a short period of time. * Note-taking: after synoptic reading, take detailed notes about the key themes and concepts, as well as noting ideas you have about how to apply or extend the material. * Writing: once you've distilled the essence of the subject, write about it to lock it into your brain and share it with others. The useful bits of knowledge often come at the intersections between topics, so exposing yourself to many sources of information is key. It even works for technical topics: when figuring out how to set up my VPS, this approach helped me learn which combination of programs to install and how to configure them correctly, even though there wasn't a pre-existing setup checklist to use. By compiling many different resources instead of relying on just one, I got much better results.