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981: Using AI to Enhance Your Reading, Notes, Memory, and Decisions with Kwame Christian

Jul 25, 2024

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Kwame Christian discusses using AI to enhance reading, notes, memory, and decisions. Topics include listening at 3X speed, improving decision-making with note-taking, AI-generated music from journal entries, and utilizing anchoring techniques in negotiations.

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Improved decision-making through unique notetaking methods at high speeds boosts memory retention.

Anticipating poor decision patterns and adjusting mental-emotional states enhances future choices.

Utilizing anchoring tactics in negotiations significantly influences outcomes, supported by real-life examples.

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Effective Decision-Making for a Better Life

Making quality decisions shapes the quality of life. Better decision-making leads to a better life, emphasizing the importance of memory retention. Identifying decision-making patterns allows anticipation of poor choices and mental-emotional preparation for better decisions, as outlined by Kwame Christian.

Flexibility in Listening and Note Taking Options

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Master Your Processing Speed

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Utilize Your Resources for Success

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Intro

2min

Enhancing Learning and Decision-Making through Rapid Note-Taking

28min

Balancing Analytical Thinking with Flow State and Avoiding Burnout

2min

Exploring AI-generated Music Based on Personal Themes from Journal Entries

4min

Exploring AI in Reading, Notes, Memory, and Decisions

3min

Utilizing Anchoring Techniques in Negotiations and Decision-Making

14min

Exploring Decision-Making Process and Emotional Influence on Decisions

2min

Fellow podcaster Kwame Christian giggles with Pete as he shares his insights and lessons learned on a novel notetaking approach.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to listen and understand audio at 3X speed

2) How notetaking improves your decision-making

3) How AI can make a fun soundtrack for your life

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— ABOUT KWAME —

Kwame Christian is a best-selling author, business lawyer and CEO of the American Negotiation Institute (ANI).

Following the viral success of his TedxDayton talk, Kwame released his best-seller Finding Confidence in Conflict: How to Negotiate Anything and Live Your Best Life in 2018. He’s also a regular Contributor for Forbes and the host of the number one negotiation podcast in the world, Negotiate Anything – which currently has over 5 million downloads worldwide. Under Kwame’s leadership, ANI has coached and trained several Fortune 500 companies on applying the fundamentals of negotiation to corporate success.

Kwame was the recipient of the John Glenn College of Public Affairs Young Alumni Achievement Award in 2020 and the Moritz College of Law Outstanding Recent Alumnus Award 2021. He is the only person in the history of The Ohio State University to win alumni awards in consecutive years from the law school and the masters of public affairs program. That said, Kwame’s proudest achievement is his family. He’s married to Dr. Whitney Christian, and they have two lovely sons, Kai and Dominic.

• Instagram: @kwamenegotiates

• LinkedIn: Kwame Christian

• Podcast: Negotiate Anything Premium

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Song: Rise and Shine Pete

• Book: The Code of Trust: An American Counterintelligence Expert's Five Rules to Lead and Succeed by Robin Dreeke, Cameron Stauth

• Book: Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully by Elaine Lin Hering

• Past episode: 976: How (and When) to Freely Speak Your Mind with Elaine Lin Hering

• App: Voice Dream Reader

• App: Suno AI

• Study: Gandhi and the Anchoring Effect, Strack & Mussweiler, 1997

• Study: "Why do we compare everything to the first piece of information we received?" Anchoring Bias explained