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Dominic Zijlstra is an edtech entrepreneur and polyglot. He helps professionals learn faster and remember more using science-based learning methods. His obsession with learning better started in 2017, when he’d spent a year studying Mandarin but still couldn’t communicate with his Chinese parents-in-law. He dove deep into the science of learning and developed a learning method that actually worked. He learned Mandarin successfully and then turned this method into an app (Traverse.link). Over 10000 people have used it since to learn things like languages, technical skills, marketing, psychology, and more.

In this conversation, we share proven techniques to accelerate your learning. You will learn how to increase your information retention, speed up the acquisition of new skills, and become the person necessary to achieve ambitious goals.

For the video, transcript, and show notes, visit forcingfunctionhour.com/dominic-zijlstra.