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#1 · July 27, 2023, 12:01 am

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Quote from John Freeman on July 26, 2023, 10:32 pm
Hello Lucio,
feed-back on the new PU version: it's much easier to go through with shorter lessons, thank you!

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#2 · July 27, 2023, 12:05 am

Quote from John Freeman on July 26, 2023, 10:32 pm
As I'm going through PU, I think that what would bring it to the next level in my eyes are:
More Quizzes: first, because they're so much fun. So more in quantity. I think regarding the quizzes it would be cool to just go back to the question we failed. Not a must have but a nice to have. So if each section would have at least 3 quizzes I think it would improve the learning and the quality by much. I know it's tons of work. Where is the value then other than the fun? In the learning. This is as close as it gets to simulating situations. So it's closer to real life and then has more value in terms in applicable learning. For now, what we do is read PU again. You already know what I think: it's great. The limitation is that we now know that more iterations have little ROI in terms of learning. What helps the best one to learn is to question in his mind and then answer with the new knowledge. So we activate the neural circuitry that we will use in real life. This more like training then than learning.
Maybe a chapter about not disempowering oneself: I am still disempowering myself with certain mindsets and behaviour. It could be useful that there is a chapter tailored to not disempower oneself.

Thank you so much for the feedback, John!

Super helpful.

Funny enough, I also always thought the quizzes were a true added value, but somehow few people commented on it.
So it's good to know I'm not alone thinking so because I was starting to de-prioritize them in my mind.

In the next versions, I'm also planning to use quizzes as self-assessments before starting a lesson and/or module.

That way, people can test themselves on how well they understand a concept, or possess a certain skill, and where they need to focus most.

If they're already super solid, then they may also skip a lesson if they're in a rush.

Such as, it will be both a tool to help learn better, and potentially faster.

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#3 · July 27, 2023, 8:54 pm

Thanks for your answer!

Great idea, will help a lot learners in terms of self-awareness and time efficiency indeed.

As I wrote in my other post in the other (wrong :p) thread: making the lessons shorter (if I’m not mistaken) is a big improvement I believe.

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#4 · July 27, 2023, 9:35 pm

Quote from Mats G on July 27, 2023, 9:35 pm
I was brainstorming some ideas for PU improvements from a teacher's perspective today and came up with these:

More quizzes (as you guys already said), preferably with varying levels of difficulty.
For me the quizzes were always a highlight of PU and I agree that having more would be great.
I also think it makes sense to vary the difficulty of the quizzes. That could be either having an easy quiz and a harder one, or just varying the difficulty of the questions within each quiz (for example starting easy and getting progressively harder). The reason for this is is that beginners and advanced folks don't learn as effectively from the same methods.
For a beginner, getting a difficult problem to solve has almost zero value in terms of learning. They need to be shown exactly how to solve problems and get explanations for every step.
Advanced people on the other hand don't benefit much from being shown how to do something, they already know a lot of it; they learn much more from trying to solve those hard problems on their own.
This is why having easy quizzes makes sense for the beginners, while having harder quizzes is useful for the people who like to go through PU multiple times.

Summaries at the end of lessons/modules
Even with the shortening of the lessons PU still has an extensive amount of information to take in. When reading a slightly longer lesson I often find myself forgetting most of it.
To make it easier to remember the lessons I think it would be good to have short bullet point summaries of the key takeaways at the end of each chapter. Just like in the chapters of The Social Strategist.
Alternatively there could be slightly longer summaries at the end of each module with the same key takeaways from all the lessons in that module. That could potentially help with making connections between the different lessons.

Action steps
Also inspired from The Social Strategist.
Ending each lesson with a (few) short practical step(s) to do could be really helpful to turn the knowledge into real life application.

Adding a function to take notes
Not sure if this one is even possible, but if it is it would be useful to be able to take notes directly in the course. Not just because it's more convenient, but also because you get to see all your thoughts upon going through PU again.
I'm not sure how big ROI this change would have but I think it would be cool if it works.

Checklist instead of assignments
To be honest I haven't completed any of the assignments in PU, mostly because it feels like they require a lot of reflection but little practical action. Reflection is great of course, but after doing nothing but reading and watching videos for a whole module it would be nice to do something practical with all that information.
Therefore I think a good alternative could be to have a checklist for each lesson/module to fill in. Basically I imagine a checklist with all the techniques of that lesson, and you add a check next to each technique only after you've successfully applied it in real life. That helps you keep track of your progress, identify your weak spots, and even gives a small reward of getting to check the boxes.
So for example it could look like this:
Hope any of this is helpful.
Cheers

I was brainstorming some ideas for PU improvements from a teacher's perspective today and came up with these:

More quizzes (as you guys already said), preferably with varying levels of difficulty.

For me the quizzes were always a highlight of PU and I agree that having more would be great.

I also think it makes sense to vary the difficulty of the quizzes. That could be either having an easy quiz and a harder one, or just varying the difficulty of the questions within each quiz (for example starting easy and getting progressively harder). The reason for this is is that beginners and advanced folks don't learn as effectively from the same methods.

For a beginner, getting a difficult problem to solve has almost zero value in terms of learning. They need to be shown exactly how to solve problems and get explanations for every step.

Advanced people on the other hand don't benefit much from being shown how to do something, they already know a lot of it; they learn much more from trying to solve those hard problems on their own.

This is why having easy quizzes makes sense for the beginners, while having harder quizzes is useful for the people who like to go through PU multiple times.

Summaries at the end of lessons/modules

Even with the shortening of the lessons PU still has an extensive amount of information to take in. When reading a slightly longer lesson I often find myself forgetting most of it.

To make it easier to remember the lessons I think it would be good to have short bullet point summaries of the key takeaways at the end of each chapter. Just like in the chapters of The Social Strategist.

Alternatively there could be slightly longer summaries at the end of each module with the same key takeaways from all the lessons in that module. That could potentially help with making connections between the different lessons.

Action steps

Also inspired from The Social Strategist.

Ending each lesson with a (few) short practical step(s) to do could be really helpful to turn the knowledge into real life application.

Adding a function to take notes

Not sure if this one is even possible, but if it is it would be useful to be able to take notes directly in the course. Not just because it's more convenient, but also because you get to see all your thoughts upon going through PU again.

I'm not sure how big ROI this change would have but I think it would be cool if it works.

Checklist instead of assignments

To be honest I haven't completed any of the assignments in PU, mostly because it feels like they require a lot of reflection but little practical action. Reflection is great of course, but after doing nothing but reading and watching videos for a whole module it would be nice to do something practical with all that information.

Therefore I think a good alternative could be to have a checklist for each lesson/module to fill in. Basically I imagine a checklist with all the techniques of that lesson, and you add a check next to each technique only after you've successfully applied it in real life. That helps you keep track of your progress, identify your weak spots, and even gives a small reward of getting to check the boxes.

So for example it could look like this:

Hope any of this is helpful.

Cheers

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#5 · July 27, 2023, 11:30 pm

BOOM!

Next-level feedback and advice, thank you so much Mats!

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#6 · July 28, 2023, 2:43 pm

Hi everyone!

Feedback:maybe you could do a collab with Andrea Giuliodori and also promote PU and you could review his "CHANGE" protocol(basically a long term win win)

P.S for the english speakers andrea is a giant in italian self development industry

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#7 · July 28, 2023, 2:52 pm

I agree with Mats on the summaries and the assignments.

Personally I don't do them in self-development books/products generally speaking because I feel they have a low ROI. It feels like a lot of time and energy. I might be wrong but this is how I see it. That's why I think the quizzes are more playful.

Regarding action steps it could be to analyze 1 situation per general topic that they went through and posting them in the forum. That's win-win-win. The student, the community and you (more case studies). To me I'm not sure you learn this stuff by doing a certain technique a certain number of time but rather analyze specific real life situations.

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#8 · July 28, 2023, 4:20 pm

Quote from S_B on July 28, 2023, 2:43 pm
Hi everyone!
Feedback:maybe you could do a collab with Andrea Giuliodori and also promote PU and you could review his "CHANGE" protocol(basically a long term win win)
P.S for the english speakers andrea is a giant in italian self development industry

Thank you for sharing S_B

TPM is super demanding with who we collaborate with and I'd need to personally make sure it's high quality.
Iight now I got a full plate, but if in the future he turns out to be really good, it may be a great idea.

Quote from John Freeman on July 28, 2023, 2:52 pm
Regarding action steps it could be to analyze 1 situation per general topic that they went through and posting them in the forum. That's win-win-win. The student, the community and you (more case studies). To me I'm not sure you learn this stuff by doing a certain technique a certain number of time but rather analyze specific real life situations.

Awesome idea, thank you John!!

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#9 · August 2, 2023, 2:16 pm

Quote from Bel on August 2, 2023, 1:56 pm
Hi Lucio,
some behaviors that maybe could be considered as additions to the gaslighting page in PU:
constantly shifting positions
"Yes, I said this, but now I take it back as I see it wasn't this but that".
Meant to make it impossible to pin the gaslighter on a precise position, as his stance is always shifting based on what's best for him in that moment and how the context evolves.
"self-feedbacking" learner frames
Yes, in rereading my text/email I now see I was wrong in saying this. I think I said it because ... [self-serving explanation]
The self-feedbacking learner frame allows the gaslighter to both
reinforce the learner frame (thus muddling the water on recurrent behaviors by reframing them as "mistakes"), and
rewrite history by stating ex post-facto an "intention/motive/cause" that best accords with how the context evolved.
preventative negations about bad intentions
By saying this I'm not implying you are bad, I hope you understand that.
It's a power move that both thread-expands on a bad frame, covers any power move preventatively, and blocks any chance of checking the subsequent power move (because to do so, one would have to go to the level of pointing out bad intentions).

Thank you @bel !

Replying here both to avoid off-topics in the other thread, and to have every great input organized in a single thread.

Great inputs by the way, I'll most likely add at least some of those in the next round of upgrades.

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#10 · August 6, 2023, 9:09 pm

Hello Lucio,

A suggestion to avoid broken links to YT videos. A possibility would be to download the videos on your server and link from there. I think it would be ok with copyright if you cite the source.